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1. When your cheese gets moldy, do you cut off the mold and keep eating or do you throw it away?
-- depends, but on the whole, I'm a paranoiac (is that a word? LOL) and I throw stuff away when it goes bad, looks like it's gone bad, looks like it MAY have gone bad or possibly in an alternate universe went bad.

2. Do you follow expiration dates or do you follow your senses?
-- both. My senses are FIRST, but if it smells fine and then I realize it's way past the date, I get paranoid and often throw it out. If the date is not readily ascertainable, then I rely on my nose.

3. What's your favourite restaurant?
-- these days seems to be La Luna, the local Lebanese place

4. How often do you eat out?
-- depends. I used to eat out A LOT more than I do now. Summer hours at work are shortened, so I don't go out for lunch, but often bring snacks and leave to go home around 2. I prefer to eat out, as I live alone and am a grazer, so making full meals including all food groups is difficult for me.

5. Do you own a chest freezer?
-- nope.

6. Open your pantry and pick three items to make a meal - no cheating. Items must be from your pantry. Kraft Dinner does not count.
-- LOL My pantry IS open (it's shelving so I can always see what's there...) and my meals almost ALWAYS consist of one or two things. Three is crazy. Often it's rice and beans or something like that.

"Paloma - you don't can your jam? It's really easy - just buy the pectin and follow the instructions in the box."

You don't have to use pectin... if you have the skill then you can make jam without it. I prefer the results from the more natural method but I'd have to relearn it from my grandmother

Paloma may also be making something similar to my grandmother's 'freezer jam' as I'm not quite sure what is in that but she can only keep it in the freezer and it is GOOD!

I make freezer jam with pectin in it, pretty much the recipe that is on the pink pectin box. It stays in the freezer until we need it, and then into the fridge.
It's so yummy, and what I was raised on, so I can't stand that nasty Smuckers stuff.

1. When your cheese gets moldy, do you cut off the mold and keep eating or do you throw it away?
Depends - if it's just a small piece of mold or two I'll just cut it off, but if it's all over the block of cheese it's definitely getting trashed. But I usually don't have that problem, since I'm a cheese fanatic.

2. Do you follow expiration dates or do you follow your senses?
Most of the time I follow my senses, much to the chagrin of my DH, who won't touch anything a day or two after the expiration date. He's flabbergasted when I put 2-day-old expired milk (that's still perfectly good, mind you) on my cereal.

3. What's your favourite restaurant?
Local places in my town (Fort Wayne, IN) - Cebolla's (Mexican), Yokohama (sushi bar), Henry's (tavern and steak/seafood house), Casa D'Angelo (Italian), Munchie Emporium, etc. I'm not big on chain restaurants, except the occasional fast food run, or if I'm with family/out of town.

4. How often do you eat out?
DH and I eat out about once a week together, but he goes out to lunch about once a week while at work (the rest of the time he comes home for lunch), and I'll go out to lunch by myself once a week (sometimes every other week) while I'm out doing errands or whatever. We keep it on the inexpensive side for the most part.

5. Do you own a chest freezer?
No, but I wish I did. It's on my wish list! I have the perfect place in my garage for it.

6. Open your pantry and pick three items to make a meal - no cheating. Items must be from your pantry. Kraft Dinner does not count.
Just pantry? OK, flat rice noodles, a can of bean sprouts, and peanut butter - to make Thai peanut noodles. Mmmm, so good!

Ziggy Wrote:"Paloma - you don't can your jam? It's really easy - just buy the pectin and follow the instructions in the box."

You don't have to use pectin... if you have the skill then you can make jam without it. I prefer the results from the more natural method but I'd have to relearn it from my grandmother

Paloma may also be making something similar to my grandmother's 'freezer jam' as I'm not quite sure what is in that but she can only keep it in the freezer and it is GOOD!

You can make certain jams (but not jellies) without pectin - but only those fruits that are natually high in pectin.

Paloma - if you can your jam you don't need to freeze it. We keep ours in the attic and it stays good for years.