November 8, 2007
Four Foods on Friday
Our gal Val didn’t beat me up for forgetting her Four Foods on Friday meme last week, but I don’t want to push my luck so I thought I’d better play this week. You can answer the questions on your own blog and send Val the link. She’ll hook you up and contribute her own pithy observations tomorrow at Fun, Crafts and Recipes, a very fun blog full of, well … crafts and recipes! Here are my answers for this week:
1. What is your favorite kind of bread?
Cheese bread, followed closely by Italian herb bread! I used to make both frequently when I first got my breadmaker and was using it almost every day. I fell out of the habit when I started my business and didn’t have a lot of time for such tihings, but I need to drag it out, dust it off and get it going again.
2. What is the strangest sandwich you have ever made?
Ah, memories! When I was a kid growing up in New Orleans we used to have a lot of houseguests each summer. No one ever wanted to cook after a day of visiting the French Quarter and doing other tourist-y things, so we’d always stop at Schwegmanns on the way home. The one where we shopped (I think it may have been the original) was in an airport-hangar looking warehouse and was huge! They had the most amazing selections of cheeses. We’d buy a bunch of different kinds - cheddar and swiss, smokey goudas and creamy munsters and whatever else captured our imaginations - then load up on plenty of deli meats, tins of smoked herring, oysters and sardines and, of course, several kinds of bread - big, crusty Italian rounds, French Bread, Pumpernickel. Back at home all of the “fixings” would be spread out on the table and we’d all make our own sandwiches. I always used pretty much everything that we had (well, except for those nasty oysters, lol!) I haven’t a clue why the folks would let me do it because obviously a little girl cannot eat a whole sandwich that weighs several pounds and is in excess of six inches thick, but they did and I did and it was a family tradition that lasted throughout my youth. 
3. Oodles of noodles. Do you cook them in the square shape they come in, or break them up? Do you use the flavor packet?
Well, I started to ask what these are, but now I realize you must be talking about ramen noodles, right? If so, I usually drop the square in boiling water and then pull it apart with a fork after it softens. I use the flavor packs most of the time.
4. Watermelon. Do you care if it has seeds or not, and why.
Seeds are a nuisance, but seedless watermelon just seems wrong to me, kwim? It’s not nice to fool Mother Nature!
[tags]food, fun stuff, meme, memories[/tags]
Posted by skeet @ 1:12 pm • Food and beverage, Meme
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November 8th, 2007 at 4:20 pm, Ann Says:
Love the sandwich story…so cute!
November 8th, 2007 at 6:41 pm, skeet Says:
I hadn’t hought about those humongous sandwiches in ages, Ann, until the question stirred up the memeory. ah, the good times of childhood!
November 9th, 2007 at 4:47 pm, Fun, Crafts and Recipes | What I learned from Four Foods on Friday #3. Says:
[…] Skeet concocted huge sandwiches (six inches high) consisting of anything available except oysters. Makes me think of Dagwood sandwiches. I learned two other things about Skeet that I didn’t know, and I do check her blog fairly regularly. Skeet has a Leatherman and was surprised to find many people didn’t know what it was. I do Skeet! I used to sell them when I was in computer sales. Also, Skeet has been known to show off her underwear! I never would have guessed that, but it sure made me chuckle! […]