It’s time for the (duh) Friday Five, unusually this week presented here actually on Friday.
1. What was the first thing you ever cooked?
Probably instant oatmeal. One of the first dishes I remember cooking when out on my own, however, was mini-pizzas using pizza sauce, mozarella cheese, and English Muffins. Yum.
2. What’s your signature dish?
Margie does most of the cooking in our household (and that’s certainly not any surprise for those who have been blessed by her cooking). My “signatures” are desserts — chocolate pecan strata probably being the most so, though I bake a mean pecan pie.
3. Ever had a cooking disaster? (tasted like crap, didn’t work, etc.) Describe.
Heh. A casserole that called for diced green chiles, but I didn’t find any at the store, so I bought diced jalipeno peppers. Heh.
4. If skill and money were no object, what would make for your dream meal?
Being a meat-n-potatoes kind of guy, money is not usually an object (insofar as I don’t have a yen for pickled hummingbird tongues or anything). And skill — well, I can follow any recipe, and Margie is a damned sight better than that, so that’s also not usually an object.
The fact is, I usually get to eat my dream meals. Chile verde. Pepper steak. Cottage fries. A wide array of desserts. Yum, yum, yum, and I have the waistline to prove it.
The only place where money might be an object — a really good wine with dinner, a good port afterwards. But I can also usually make due with cheap stuff, too, if well-selected.
5. What are you doing this weekend?
My in-laws are in town, so probably some sort of a project (we finally built Katherine’s bunk bed this afternoon). A real doorbell, perhaps? Then, Sunday, we’re having fried turkey with friends, hopefully with a working burner this time.