So my friend, Alix at Marmite and Tea asked someone to send her a meme. I’ve always wanted to try my hand writing one, so I made one up just for her. She posted it yesterday. I thought it was such fun, that I’d just do it myself over here. Feel free to pass it around if you like it!

1. What’s your favourite holiday food?

Egg Nog Silk – it’s soy milk flavoured like eggnog. I know…weird, but soooo yummy.

2. Are there any secret recipes in your family and will you divulge them here?

I can’t think of any secret recipes, but my mum does make the best butter cookies, and the trick is that she uses powdered sugar instead of granular sugar. It makes them melt in your mouth!

3. Name a book you love with a food in the title.

Well, I stayed up until midnight last night reading a young adult book called PEACHES. I thought it was pretty darn good!

4. What’s your most secret indulgence food that you really don’t want to admit eating but you can’t help yourself?

It’s that fake cheese nacho dip stuff. You know, that orange glop that comes in a jar…with tortilla chips. In high school I used to make this dip for parties and my friends dubbed it “Joelle Dip” and they wouldn’t let me in the door without it. It was Velveeta melted with tomato sauce, green chiles, and hamburger. You can imagine what that looked like. We would all eat it until we were sick. I kind of crave that every once in a while…I’ll admit I’ve made it with fake hamburger now that I’m a veg head even though it’s totally bad for you!

5. Are you a savoury or sweet snacker?

Definitely savoury. I like sweets, but I’m more of a “one piece of chocolate” or “a tiny slice of pie” person when it comes to sweet. With savouries, I can snack all day!

6. What food have you never tried but would like to?

Well, I hate to admit this, because they might take my Vegetarian Card away, but it’s chicken fried steak with potatoes and gravy. I won’t ever eat it, but I always sort of wished I’d tried it before I became a veggie because in that book EVERYTHING I NEED TO KNOW I LEARNED IN KINDERGARTEN he makes it sound so amazing. Still, I will happily live my life without ever tasting it. It’s definitely less appealing than it used to be! In fact, it’s more of a former wish than a current one.

7. Name your favourite food country and describe why you like it.

England. Haha! Just kidding. Ummm…well, I’ve never been to Italy, but I really love good Italian food, so I’m thinking that might be the place.

8. What’s the most disgusting thing you’ve ever eaten?

When I was fifteen, I went to Hawaii with the martial arts group that I trained with and before we went, they made us eat some of the foods we might have once we got there. I have never really liked greasy food, and sausage can definitely scare me (even when I ate meat). They made me eat eggs, rice, and Portugese sausage. It made me so sick (and mad) that later in the day I decided I didn’t want to go to Hawaii and tried to quit, but they didn’t let me. But they didn’t make me eat it again!

9. Do you eat pizza with a knife and fork or pick it up with your hands?

In college I had a German boyfriend and he ate his pizza with a knife and fork, so I did, but honestly, I’m all about just picking it up! I mean, come on, it’s pizza!

10. What would you like to learn to cook?

I would love to learn to make really good Thai food or a good stir-fry. I can cook pretty well, but these things sort of elude me. I think I need a class!

11. Name your favourite food scene from a movie.

Well, it’s sad, but I love that movie Big Night.

12. Do you buy snacks at the movies, or sneak them in?

I never go to the movies anymore except at my friend’s theatre, so I don’t really have to sneak them in there, I can just carry them in. But I used to be a big time food sneak. I have gone so far as to take whole meals into movie theatres and eaten them in the back row!

For the bonus points: Tell us your most embarrassing food story!

I had a Japanese friend and one time she had us over for dinner. She’s a really good cook and she was standing over the stove with these little things that looked kind of like white melon balls. I asked what they were and she held one up on a spoon and said, “cheese ball”. I took it off the spoon and bit into it and she freaked out. “No! No! They’re not cooked yet!” She grabbed it back from me and plopped it into the pot of hot oil. She deep fried the rest of them with it, but the one I’d bitten into fell apart and she put it on my plate and then told everyone why mine was falling apart!