Foodie confessions meme

Monday, June 22, 2009 8:38 AM by lauranen

After visiting the Look & Taste website, I spent the week typing up a little meme in an attemp to come up with an innovative viral promo as my entry for their Le Creuset competition. I am completely and utterly impressed with the concept they have going, so my earlier plans of writing an introductory post about the site had to be cancelled - the draft I had been working on took a slight overenthusiastic turn. Instead, I thought I'd create a meme and incorporate them in somehow. And yes, I am aware that memes are so 2005, but that's just where I am at the moment with this blogging stuff.

Sadly, I couldn't come up with a quiz that would actually keep a link to their page as it travels through the cyberspace, so it stopped being only about the competition, really. I'm going to enter it into their draw anyway, but I'm also looking forward to people's answers for my own personal kitchen inspiration! I've also posted it into my Facebook and tagged my foodie friends that probably don't read the blog.

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The Foodie Confessions Meme

IN THE KITCHEN

1. My trademark recipe: Cambodian beef stew

2. Kitchen gadget or accessory I couldn't live without: Electrical mixer/food processor

3. Biggest kitchen handicap: I’ve never made a Sunday roast.

4. Dish/technique that I want to learn: I would love to be better a cutting meats and preparing fish.

5. My top cooking tip: You can grate garlic with the peel still on the clove; the peel will not go through the grater. Rachel Allen told me this last week, in person! This is particularly handy if you don't like chopping garlic, or if you don't own a garlic press.

INSPIRATION

6. Favourite cuisine/food style: Mediterranean

7. Favourite cook book: At the moment, Falling Cloudberries by Tessa Kiros and Flavour by Vicky Bhogal

8. Favourite chef: Rachel Allen

9. Favourite food programme: River Cottage & Saturday Kitchen

10. Favourite food magazine: BBC's Good Food Magazine

11. Favourite local restaurant: Vie de Chateaux


INTERNET FOR FOODIES

12. Favourite foodie website: Look & Taste – great video tips and recipes

13. Favourite recipe search: Twecipe – simply lovely!

14. Online recipe binder: Recipezaar

15. Favourite food blog: Delicious Days - so beautiful.


FAVOURITE RECIPES

16. Main course: Barbequed chicken satay skewers

17. Quickie: Chilli prawn pasta with peppers

18. Soup/salad: Pear & blue cheese salad

19. Baked treat or dessert: Finnish mixed berry pie

20. Self-invented (or adapted): The oatmeal banoffee pie (see picture)


I hereby tag the newly-wed Katherine (congrats!), Made Marian (even if she didn't post it in her crafty blog), Aoife of icanhascook, whenever she's recovered from her big trip, the Italian Foodies (that I have been stalking since Maz first brought them to my attention) and Look & Taste, of course!

Of course, anyone is welcome to complete and repost this! If you do, please leave a message in the comments so I can come an check you out. And if you don't have your own blog, just post your answers in full as a comment.