Columbus Foodie

Ganked from Toni from Wifely Steps.

1. Favorite Comfort Food
Would have to be either pork and sauerkraut over mashed potatoes, or sauteed pork tenderloin with balsamic caramelized onions over mashed potatoes. Close second? Chicken pot pie (the PA Dutch kind with pot pie noodles, not the kind with pie crust).

2. Favorite Breakfast Meal
Hard boiled eggs with sea salt (2), buttered everything bagel, berry yogurt parfait.

3. Favorite Lunch Meal
Changes from time to time, but right now I’m on a Vietnamese kick, so it would be Pho Bo, and Banh mi Thit Bo from Lac Viet. If I’m at home? A nice salad, with romaine mix, shredded havarti, hard boiled eggs, thinly sliced red onions, garlic almonds, and honey-mustard dressing.

4. Favorite Dinner Meal
Depends on if I’m at home or if I’m out. If I’m at home, I like pasta with chicken and whatever veggies I have laying around. If I’m out, Indian buffet from Sher-E-Punjab.

5. Favorite Dessert
Salty Caramel Jeni’s Ice Cream or creme brulee.

6. Favorite Cake
If it’s homemade, it would have to be my mom’s New York Cheesecake. Out and about? Boca Negra cake from Omega Bakery.

7. Favorite Pasta
Meat ravioli from Carfagna’s.

8. Favorite Dish That Others Find Weird
Bone marrow dumplings.

9. Favorite Fruits That You Haven’t Eaten In A While
Oranges

10. Favorite Junkfood
Pizzeria Pretzel flavored Combos.

11. Favorite TV Show Related to Food (Cooking show, Travel show with food, etc.)
Alton Brown’s Good Eats. I love to learn the science behind food because it helps me become a better cook if I know what I’m doing. That, and Alton’s a hottie (I like nerdy guys, sue me).

12. Favorite Pastries
Apple turnovers from La Chatelaine. Chocolate pastries from Panera.

13. Favorite Way to Eat Potatoes
Stuffed with onion into a pierogie which is sauteed in butter with even more onions until browned.

14. Favorite Ice Cream
Jeni’s Salty Caramel

15. Favorite Alcoholic Drink When You Really Really Really Want to Party If I’m going for potency? Liquid heroin - 1 shot Rumpleminze, 1 shot Bacardi 151, 1 shot Jagermeister. My usual drink? Hairy Navel (OJ, vodka, Peachtree).

16. Favorite Bar Chow
Anything on the menu at Betty’s or Surly Girl Saloon.

17. Favorite Chicken Dish
Chicken piccata or chicken makhni curry.

18. Favorite Place to Eat with Your Sweetheart or Your Best Friend (Choose 1)
We tend to keep returning to Cap City Fine Diner over and over again, so I guess that is our choice. Or Starliner.

19. Favorite Place to Eat with your Family
As a group, we usually go to Buca di Beppo.

20. Fill in the blanks: I wish I could eat ____ in/at _____ with ______.
I wish I could eat macarons in Paris with Paul.

Tag, you’re it - to anyone who hasn’t done this one yet.

I like to participate in a lot of food events, not limited to ones put on by the food blogging community. One of the current events I’m involved in is Recipezaar’s Pick a Chef event. Basically, what happens is that someone adopts me (a newbie) and prepares and reviews three of my recipes that I have listed on the Recipezaar web site, and in turn, I pick someone and prepare and review three of their recipes.

I picked a chef named Cynna, and chose 3 of her dishes to prepare. This is the first: Jalapeno Macaroni and Cheese Casserole. As I am known to do with recipes, I made a couple of substitutions (poblanos instead of jalapeno, whole wheat shells instead of elbows) and added a little more spice, but all in all it was a very solid macaroni and cheese dish. With it, I served some breaded and fried chicken wings from North Market Poultry and Game. Simple and quick, but comfort food at its finest.

Two more dishes to go, which I’ll present here sometime this month.

As always, Weekend Dog Blogging is hosted at Sweetnicks. Be sure to drop by every Sunday night to check out the round-up.

This week, I managed to catch Diva with her tongue out. Not the most flattering pose in the world, but it sure is cute, and I’m sure she doesn’t mind if I post it.

Sadie, as always, is lounging on the couch, this time with the late afternoon sun shining on her.

Not much variety with my dogs, I suppose - since they’re both indoor dogs and don’t really vary much in what they do all day. Maybe next week I’ll do an outside edition.

This weekend’s edition is being hosted at House of the (Mostly) Black Cats, so be sure to drop by there if you want to participate or to see the round-up.

This weekend, Frankie and Sammy weren’t having - not for a second. So I give you a view of the way they chose to show their displeasure at the lady with the camera - cat butt as they’re walking away. It was such a cute picture, that I decided not to press the issue, at least not this week.