kitchen survey

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What were you cooking/baking ten years ago?

pasta. that’s about all i remember making. oh, and scrambled pancakes (this is where you don’t make round pancakes but just scramble the batter like you would eggs)

What were you cooking/baking one year ago?

i started my adventures in indian cooking about a year ago. besides that i was making lots of mexican including chimichangas, tacos, fajitas…last summer we also started drinking smoothies a bit. my love affair also began with yogurt.
Five snacks you enjoy:

string cheese, le petit ecolier, plain yogurt with cocoa powder/sugar, melba toast, and orange sherbet
Five recipes you know by heart:

potato leek soup, avocado tacos, greek pizza, home made ravioli, and hummus

Five culinary luxuries you would indulge in if you were a millionaire:

kitchenaid artisan mixer in either pistachio green or reef blue, calphalon knives, calphalon pans, calphalon dutch oven, and some professional cooking lessons

Five foods you love to cook/bake:

indian food of all sorts, chocolate deserts, tea & cakes, smoothies, and rich soups (heavy cream a must)

Five things you cannot/will not eat:

anything with the following ingredients (unless their amounts are obscenely minuscule so as not to be detected*): cloves, cinnamon, mushrooms, meat*, anise

*the one exception is that i will not make anything under any circumstances with meat no matter how small of an amount.

Five favorite culinary toys:

i don’t have many yet, but my hard anodized pans make me happy. also, my tea making accoutrement, ginsu knives, yogurt maker, and air popcorn maker