Friday Five for Foodies

1. If you were a food, what would you be?

~Dark chocolate


2. What is one of the most memorable meals you ever had? And where?

~Mr. LS's uncle is executive chef for a pretty swanky group of restaurants in NYC. About the time I graduated from seminary, NSLS and Mr. LS came to the city and we went to one of those restaurants in what has become one of the new hot areas for night life, not far from where I lived. And we were given the royal treatment. We didn't order anything....food just kept appearing on the table. Really I think we sampled most of what was on the menu. And of course, it was all delicious. Amazing, really.

~I've never been treated so royally. Or had so much food. It was wonderful, but honestly I started to feel a bit guilty about the excess by the time we were finished.


3. What is your favorite comfort food from childhood?

~A tomato sandwich--must be a very fresh garden tomato, with lots of real mayonnaise and a bit of salt and pepper. When I was a kid it would've been on squishy white bread.

~Or chunky peanut butter on saltine crackers with a class of real iced tea (lemon and sugar of course) or a coke. My bf and I used to have that for a snack and I still do.


4. When going to a church potluck, what one recipe from your kitchen is sure to be a hit?

~ Baked pineapple and cheese casserole


5. What’s the strangest thing you ever willingly ate?

~When I was in 10th grade I went on a Girl Scout trip to Atlantic City (before it was transformed into its current state). We stayed at a big hotel and one day there was a buffet for lunch. Nothing was very appetizing, honestly, but there was a large tray of cold meat, so we made sandwiches. About half way through the meal, someone told us what we were eating was tongue. EWWWWWW!

~I've mostly avoided things like that, because even when I ate meat, I eschewed organs and game animals and the like. But in Iceland I COULD have eaten sheep's head or birds that were hung out to dry--literally (I forget what they were called). And my grandfather used to eat calf brains with his scrambled eggs. Makes me queasy just to remember it.

This thread make me remember again how much the way I eat has changed since I was a kid, and what different food memories my kids will have compared to mine--that may be worth its own post.