Food Fives

I was tagged by my pal Darbunk (P.S. her food blog is amazing and your should bookmark it) for this fun food-related meme. If you are reading this, consider yourself tagged (and link back so I can find you!)

What were you cooking/baking 10 years ago?
I was 28 and living in San Francisco. No kids. We were having parties. Lots of parties. And I had more time to tackle complicated recipes like fresh Vietnamese spring rolls, hand-rolled sushi (oh we had goooood parties), Puerto Rican pork roast, apricot chiffon cake, and chocolate peanut butter pie)

What were you cooking/baking one year ago?
A year ago I was pretty much cooking what I'm cooking now. Simple, fast, and yummy family meals.

Five snacks you enjoy (in no particular order):

• prosciutto
• Japanese rice cracker (I grew up eating these)
• P'tit Basque cheese
• clementines (pretty much the only fruit I'll eat as is)
• raw veggies and dip

Five recipes you know by heart:

• apple pie
• spaghetti alla carbonara (+ all' amatriciana, puttanesca, alle vongole...)
• corn chowder
• Korean beef stew
• ahi poke

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

• osetra caviar by the metric ton
• sushi chef on-call
• beef/poultry from Lobel's
• my own organic garden stocked with every kind of vegetable, that rotate with the seasons
• pressing my own olive oil from olives from my grove

Five foods you love to cook/bake:

• barbecued anything (steaks, ribs, fish, veggies, whatevs)
• Caramel Cuts
• risotto
• Thanksgiving turkey
• soup of any kind

Five foods you cannot/will not eat:

• whole apples
• uni
• eel
• escargot
• fresh pineapple (allergic)

Five favorite culinary toys:

• Cuisinart
• Microplane graters (2 of 'em)
• Cast-iron skillets (3 of 'em)
• Stick blender
• Global knives

Five dishes on your "last meal" menu:

This is really hard. If I could choose a 6th, cracked crab would definitely be on the list.

• Toro and hamachi sashimi with cold sake
• Prosciutto and nothing else. just piles and piles of paper-thin prosciutto
• Caviar and blinis with traditional garnishes (chopped egg white, chopped egg yolk, chives, and creme fraiche a spoon and ice-cold Yuri Dolgoruki vodka to go with
• My mom's standing rib roast and Yorkshire pudding
• An assortment of my favorite dim sum: Shanghai soup dumplings, shrimp and chive dumplings, turnip cake, taro puffs, and Peking duck in buns

Five happy food memories:

• Watching my mom make pasta from scratch and hanging it on wood hangers to dry
• Eating pizza quattro stagioni in my swimsuit overlooking the beach in Positano, Italy
• 10-course Kobe beef teppan-yaki dinner in Tokyo (thank god my step-dad was paying because the meal cost as much as a small car)
• Making baby food for my babies and feeding them for the first time
• New Year's Eve dinner 2000 in San Francisco—we went all out and had caviar and Dom Perignon to start and Beef Wellington (made by my mom) for the main course

Your turn!

Comments

[darbunk]

Thanks, Citymama!

Ahhh, the foods we ate before we had kids!

[Lorraine]

Will you be home later today? Because I will be there will my bags and pillow by dinner.
I am MOVING IN!!!!!!!!

My mouth is watering up here ... I can't believe you eat like this every day?
My back up dinner is wieners wrapped in pastry.
No, I'm not kidding. I wish I was.

[Tickled Pink]

Delicious, thoughtful answers. I wanted to jump through my computer screen and into your kitchen. Your family is blessed.

[Stefania/CityMama]

Lorraine, I do not eat like that everyday! OMG, if only!! :-)

[nicole/wksocmom]

Yummy! Great list, I'm considering myself tagged but I'll have to do it tomorrow so I don't just copy yours :)
I had one of those dinners in Tokyo, mmmm...mmm... (paid for by my mom's company).
I remember seeing the prices outside the restaurants and my jaw just dropping.

[petitegourmand]

great list!!
love it.
especially the quattro stagioni & prosciutto...mmmm
oh and yes..sashimi & sake.
is there anything better?

[mama's got moxie]

i don't think i know enough about food to take on this meme!! for instance, i think my favorite culinary toy is my pizza cutter!! sad, i know... ;)

[Dawn]

mmm food eaten in other countries tastes so much better....

[patti]

I accepted the challenge :)

http://boatpond.typepad.com/boatpond/2007/12/in-which-i-part.html

[Dannos Cast Iron Skillets]

I would also add that anything grilled or fried would be great.
Pork fat rules!

[Sally Big Woods]

I'm in!

http://grandforet.blogspot.com/

thanks for the tag!

[Grammy]

10 years ago: Hmmm, I think I was microwaving Lean Cuisine and trying to lose weight.
Baking one year ago: Old Fashion Party Mix. That is my Christmas treat to myself.
5 snacks I enjoy: Party Mix, Chocolate, pistachios, diet Coke, Ice cream sandwiches by Carnation.
5 recipes I know by heart: Spaghetti sauce, meatloaf, fried chicken (and I mean FRIED!!) Pot Roast, Cinnamon Toast.
% Culinary Luxuries: A personal chef, TWO ovens, one gas and one electric, a gas range, doublewide sub-zero fridge.
5 food I love to cook: Chocolate Cherry Fudge cake, Party Mix, Hamburgers (In my George Grill) Artichoke dip, and anything in the microwave that I don't have to make myself.
5 foods I cannot eat: Liver, raw fish, raw meat, any organ meats, and olives (I can eat them I just don't like the flavor)
5 favorite toys: Pampered Chef food chopper, Cookie press, salad shooter, New cookie sheets, Muffin tins
5 items for my last meal: STeak, baked potato, cesar salad, green beans, and chocolate cherry fudge cake.
5 happy food memories: Thanksgiving dinner at home when I was about 10 (before I had to help cook), ginger snaps abd lemmon snaps in the bread drawer for after school snacks, fizzies, winner suckers
I don't cook much anymore and I never really got the hang of it. My girls both are fantastic cooks now.

[Dena]

Okay after MUCH delay, I finally did my own!

Loved this meme, by the way. It really got my memory jogging and helped me remember some very fond moments.