Week-in-review and a bit of fun

Monday:
 Salmon with Lemon-Dill Butter and Life This Week: August 22, 1938

Tuesday:
 The Basics: Poached Eggs

Wednesday:
 Feasts and Festivals: St. Bartholomew's Day

Thursday:
 Focus on Ingredients: Grass-fed Beef

Friday:
 Dinner and a Movie: Sense and Sensibility


For fun, this survey from Karen at Small Earth Vintage:

1. What time did you get up this morning? 6:53 a.m.
2. How do you like your steak? medium-rare, but I often tell waiters "rare" so my steak isn't overcooked
3. What was the last film you saw at the cinema? The Princess of Montpensier at the Murdock Theatre
4. What is your favorite TV show? The Supersizers
5. If you could live anywhere in the world where would it be? In a pre-war Tudor-style brick house with a basement, a big yard, at least 4 bedrooms and at least 2 bathrooms; I'd also settle for the English countryside or Paris ;-)
6. What did you have for breakfast? Buttered toast, black coffee and homemade yogurt
7. What is your favorite food? toast
8. Foods you dislike? pickles and anything anise-flavored
9. Favorite place to eat? love to walk from our house to Il Vicino (even though I have to take my own utensils now because they're using those godawful Knorks) or Watermark
10. Favorite dressing? walnut vinaigrette
11. What kind of vehicle do you drive? Suzuki Grand Vitara
12. What are your favorite clothes? cardigans, Minnetonka moccasins
13. Where would you visit if you had the chance? saving up to go back to Europe, at present
14. Cup 1/2 empty or 1/2 full? I'd like to say 1/2 full, but realistically, I'm a bit of an Eeyore
15. Where would you want to retire? in my own paid-off abode, although I'm not totally against those places where they do your laundry and drive you to the American Legion hall for dancing
16. Favorite time of day? 4 p.m. (teatime!)
17. Where were you born? Oklahoma City
18. What is your favorite sport to watch? politics
19. What is your favorite fragrance? Coco Mademoiselle
20. What is your favorite face cream? Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion 
21. Favorite baby/kids products? kids have the best books
22. People watcher? yes
23. Are you a morning or night person? morning
24. Do you have any pets? no
25. Any new and exciting news you'd like to share? Can't think of anything!
26. What did you want to be when you were little? baker, architect, UN consul, Ginger Rogers
27. What is your favorite memory? They all involve walking: family trips to Washington, D.C. and Boston; going for walks with my husband (in Paris or Wichita)
28. Are you a cat or dog person? I don't care as long as they're well-behaved, but I would like six or seven spaniels to follow me about in the manner of Charles II (as long as someone else cleans up after them)
29. Are you married? yes
30. Always wear your seat belt? yes
31. Been in a car accident? 5 of 'em
32. Any pet peeves? anti-intellectualism
33. Favorite pizza toppings? artichoke hearts
34. Favorite flower? poppies and peonies
35. Favorite ice cream? pistachio
36. Favorite fast food restaurant? Chipotle or Freddy's Frozen Custard
37. How many times did you fail your driver's test? 0; none of those accidents were my fault!
38. From whom did you get your last email? the ACLU
39. Which store would you choose to max out your credit card? The thought of maxing out my credit card makes me hyperventilate, but I love antique shopping
40. Do anything spontaneous lately? see #3--it was on a Tuesday
41. Like your job? almost all of the time
42. Broccoli? yes, please
43. What was your favorite vacation? Paris
44. Last person you went out to dinner with? Paul
45. What are you listening to right now? Paul playing Grand Theft Auto--well, I'm doing a fairly successful job of tuning it out, except Paul just said, "I guess I'm going to have to run that cop over." :-/
46. What is your favorite color? peacock blue, forest green, navy, gray, burgundy
47. How many tattoos do you have? zero
48. Coffee drinker? absolutely
    
    

I'd love to hear your answers! If you fill out the survey, please leave a comment in the comments section and be sure to link up your answers here: