Four Foods on Friday

Posted by Ami-chan on September 5, 2008

I remembered! I like participating in Val’s Four Foods on Friday meme but I keep forgetting and it’s very irritating to me that I do so. I love reading everyone else’s recipes and tips and tricks for getting by in the kitchen. This cooking thing is still pretty new to me. Anyway, on to the questions for this week.

#1. Artichokes. Love em or leave em?
#2. What’s your favorite kind of bean?
#3. Share a recipe for any kind of cake.
#4. What’s your favorite dairy product?

1. I sickened myself a bit on artichokes. I do like them, but when I worked at a pizza restaurant one of the dishes I used to have to prepare was the tortellini salad which was full of artichokes and, of course, when you make a dish you have to test it out. I haven’t had artichokes since, and it’s been almost six years since I worked there.

2. Now beans I’ve also been missing out on since I’ve been married because 90% of beans my husband won’t eat, except for green beans and edamame, so edamame are my current favorite, although I am fond of kidney beans and baked beans. Nothing like beans on toast!

3. Cake I cheat on. I figure why spend all this time making one from scratch when I can open a box from Pillsbury or Betty Crocker and make a yummy scrumptious cake in half the time. I love making marble cake:

That’s one I made for my Mum’s birthday this past March, which is not a great example of the marbling…but nonetheless you can see the nifty colors in the chocolate mix. I’ll get a chocolate cake (usually Devil’s Food) and a white cake mix and mix food coloring in with the white cake. I’ll usually do at least two different marble colors blue and purple, red and orange, something like that. One time I went “all out” and did each half of the cake different so we had a blue, purple, green bottom and a red, orange, yellow top. That was a bit much though.

4. Hrm…dairy…I love dairy. If you were asking my son this question he would say “cheese pwease,” he is a cheese fiend. Me, while I like cheese. I have to say whipped cream, LOL. It’s in so many scrumptious desserts, and I’ve just recently discovered the joy of making home-made chocolate truffles and they are so yummy when made with heavy whipping cream instead of whole milk.

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