Friday's Feast

Appetizer: Name a great website you would recommend to others.

Hmm, how about one I've never mentioned to you: Serious Eats. There are scads of foodie sites out there, but this one is better than all the rest. I subscribe to their RSS feed and suggest you do too—there's always something interesting cooking there (ick, sorry for the pun).

Soup: On a scale of 1–10 (with 10 as highest), how often do you dream at night?

The sleep scientists say that everyone dreams every night, so I'll give myself a 10. But as for remembering my dreams, I score maybe a 1 or 2. I can go months without being able to recall even one snippet of a dream. It's probably just as well, because when I do remember them, I usually wish I hadn't.

Salad: Did you have a pet as a child?  If so, what kind and what was its name?

We had two or three successive pairs of parakeets. The male was always named Bluey and the female was always named Whitey. (Guess why?) The male always died first and sent the female into a tailspin, and then she'd die. You can see why my parents decided to stop buying parakeets.

Main Course: If you had the chance to star in a commercial, what would you choose to advertise?

Eww, I don't think I'd like to be in any commercial at all. It would have to be a product that I love from a company I respect. So that rules out nearly everything on the planet.... Maybe Annie's Homegrown? My kids love her mac & cheese—and I've been known to devour the leftovers from time to time.

Dessert: What is your favorite kind of hard candy?

The only flavor of hard candy I like is wild cherry. Even though it doesn't really taste like cherries, at least it's better than all those other faux flavors—the worst offenders being "watermelon" and "sour apple." Peh.

Comments

[Elena]

I also only had parakeets as pets growing up because we lived in an apartment. Of course there was the occasional goldfish or turtle too. I also love wild cherry Lifesavers and cherry Tootsie Pops, although I don't eat hard candy too often. I have been substitute teaching for someone who has coffee-caramel Werther's Originals in her desk and I snitched a few of those (but then, I'm a coffee lover unlike you). Also, I have to say I'm disappointed that you wouldn't want to make a commercial for Maytag! ;-)

[Mir]

Leave it to me to latch on to perhaps the least important item in this entire post... but anyway... have you had the Yummy Earth Organics hard candies? They sell 'em at Amazon (there's a coupon code for them through the end of the month, too, I think) and they're all-natural, etc. BUT the reason I'm bringing them up is because the flavors are derived from, you know, actual fruit, and I wonder if that would make you branch out from cherry?

My favorite is pomegranate. ;)

[Karen]

What do you mean? Everything on my blog is equally important. ;-)

I'll consider looking for those candies, but it's not like I need another sweet thing to get addicted to!