Interview with the Lemmonex

Rugelach: In honor of both of us being Jewish in spirit…
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I was hoping Lemmonex would interview me while I was still on Winter Semester break, but she wasn’t able to get her questions to me until a few days ago (understandable, since she had a lot of requests for interviews). I’ll be using this an an excuse to take a study break…

And away we go….

1. Name an event that has changed your life…big or small.

Mine was a pretty big one, actually. Almost five years ago, I underwent treatment for a brain tumor.

Lessons learned: learning to know my limits (well, for the most part), that my friends and family are indeed a treasure (I’m not saying they weren’t treasured, but crises like these drive points like this home), learning not to worry about little things nearly so much (though I still have my moments), that I don’t look good bald, that wigs are expensive and itchy, that I’m stronger than I’ve ever given myself credit for.

Almost five years out, I’ve had no recurrence. Thank goodness.

2. What do you love about working in a library?

• As a self-admitted info. junkie, I enjoy helping others find information.
• Certain types of transactions require a degree of detective work; it’s almost like work is CSI: Library!
• The relationships that I have built with coworkers and patrons alike. Their presence and support certainly counteract the more challenging people I run into.

3.If you could meet a famous chef, who would it be?

Easily Chef Duff (Goldman). Not only is he relatively local, he has a great combination of talent, wackiness, and a laid-back/down-to-earth personality.

He’s also a Jew who (ironically?) loves his pork… What’s not to love about him?

4. What is the worst meal you have ever cooked?

I attempted to make chicken and dumplings in the crock pot sometime last year. First of all, I filled the pot to the hilt. Since I didn’t have time to stay up, I put all the biscuit dough balls in with everything else. The biscuit dough expanded, causing lots of other things in the crock to fall out gradually overnight. The resulting mixture just tasted like… undercooked biscuit dough. It was edible, but barely.

I should have taken a shot of that for the bloopers reel, but I forgot to. Too focused on cleaning up the mess.

5. Coke or Pepsi?

Whatever is on sale in diet, generally. Diet Dr. Pepper rocks them all, though.

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I don’t expect many requests, but rules are rules…

If you’d like to be inteterviewed, just follow these steps:

1) Cut a hole in the … Oh, wait…

Here are the real steps:

1) Leave me a comment saying, “Interview me.”
2) I will respond by emailing you five questions. I get to pick the questions.
3) You will update your blog with the answers to the questions. Be sure you link back to the original post.
4) You will include this explanation and an offer to interview someone else in the same post.
5) When others comment asking to be interviewed, you will ask them five questions.

Sabine = Lemming

Got Blue Crab?

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OK, Lemmonex didn’t officially tag me to do the “seven things about myself” meme, but I thought this meme would be fun to do.  Since this is also a food blog, I’ll keep with the food-related theme.

Man… I’m limited to only 7? I’ll go with the 7 that come up to mind first.

1. Even though I have a lot of familiarity with many dishes in the Filipino culinary pantheon, I still need to learn to cook a lot of those dishes from scratch (most of my hangups right now center around time constraints). What I do know how to cook, however, I cook very well (leche flan, sinigang, and adobong manok/adobong baboy).*

2. If I had the opportunity, I would try balut. Only because I’d try anything once.

3. I eat my eggs with ketchup.  I feel no shame in this notion. It’s the closest thing to Jufran banana sauce there is in mainstream US grocery stores.

Wait, what? Amazon’s selling Jufran?!

4. During my time in Hawaii, I ate Spam and actually liked it… not too unlike a lot of my neighbors at the time.  I don’t miss it, though;  I’ve only had it once since returning stateside.

Once since 1986 isn’t a bad track record, no?

5. Thanks to having had Turkish roommates when first coming to the DC area, I’ve had Raki. Despite its potency, I will not touch it again since I loathe anything anise-flavored.

6. I still don’t quite get (what seems like) the Filipino obsession with potted meat.

7. I also really don’t get why I hate dried coconut (y’know… your usual grocery store fare…), yet love macapuno/young coconut.

Mental note: Don’t introduce Lemmonex to buko pie.

* I’d also like to try my hands at the German culinary pantheon….

Not tagging anyone. Follow the meme only if the spirit moves you. Happy Halloween, y’all!