Food survey

This one is going 'round on AllRecipes.com...

1. How do you like your eggs?
Scrambled, hard boiled, or separated between a decent Carbonara and kransekage.

2. How do you take your coffee/tea?
Well, I *WILL* need coffee and sugar in my foamed milk... (that's a Latte)
Black tea is with milk and sugar.
Herbal tea is straight.
So is oolong.
And my relationship with green and white teas is still too ambivalent to tell just yet...

3. Favorite breakfast food:
Mmmmmmm eggs & sausages *Homer-drool*

4. Peanut butter: Smooth or crunchy?
Crunchy

5. What kind of dressing on your salad?
A basic one - oil, lemon/vinegar, fresh garlic, salt, and pepper.

6. Coke or Pepsi?
Classic Coke. Doi.

7. You’re feeling lazy, what do you make?
Spaghetti with Irma's chili/tomato sauce.

8. You’re feeling really lazy. What kind of pizza do you order?
Pepperoni.

9. You feel like cooking. What do you make?
Probably something with potatoes or my wok. Or a pasta dish from scratch.

10. Do any foods bring back good memories?
Oh yes - ris á l'amande; a kind of rice pudding served as the dessert on Christmas Eve in Denmark. Every year, my uncle claims that he will get the almond (and thus the gift) for sure, no questions asked. And then the almond is often hidden until all ris á l'amande is eaten - and then revealed.
Last year I got it, and for the first time I was able to hide it with noone discovering it.

11. Do any foods bring back bad memories?
Caviar (and whatever looks and tastes like it, red or black). The first time I ate it, I vomited big time - and to this day I think that's the only thing I'm intolerant to, not being able to keep a straight face when swallowing (shaddap) - nor doing so without alcohol in the same mouthful.

12. Do any foods remind you of someone?
Oh yeah - a lot of foods reminds me of my dad or Jamie Oliver.

13. Is there a food you refuse to eat?
Look at #11.

14. What was your favorite food as a child?
My mom's Spaghetti with Meatsauce (now I'm getting hungry).

15. Is there a food that you hated as a child but now like?
I can deal with onions now.
Fish and olives are slowly growing on me (although none of them are on my favorite list as we speak).

16. Is there a food that you liked as a child but now hate?
I wouldn't say that I hate it - but I'm not eating as much meat now as I did back then (according to my mom's description, I think I looked like a wild child when eating meat back then).
But besides bacon, Danish meatballs (frikadeller), and stegt flæsk, I can't stand pork.

17. Favorite fruit and vegetable:
Avocado (yes, it's a fruit!) and tomato.

18. Favorite junk food:
A decent pizza (did anyone say Nino's Deli or Pizzaria Toscana?).

19. Favorite between meal snack:
I tend to be snacking on that plate of fruit until lunchtime - and then having liver paté on dark rye bred in the afternoon these days. Otherwise yoghurt or skyr.

20. Do you have any weird food habits?
I always seem to be stunning people when eating cheese on dark rye bread and a plate of fruit with my coffee in the morning. "You're so freakin' healthy!"

21. You’re on a diet. What food(s) do you fill up on?
Dark pasta, dark rye bread, Irma's chili/tomato sauce, seedles grapes, fruit in general.

22. You’re off your diet. Now what would you like?
Sodas, candy, and chocolate cake, regular pasta. But then again, I try not to do that, since I know that's the road to another diet.

23. How spicy do you order Indian/Thai?
Surprise me, and bring me some extra rolls if you see me crying.

24. Can I get you a drink?
Can I see the drink menu?

25. Red or White Wine?
White.

26. Favorite dessert?
The chocolate sufflé from the Italian place in Jerusalem.
Ris á l'amande (but only that once a year - or it takes away the magic!).

27. The perfect nightcap?
The red Caleb porto - ;) @ Brorsons

Losing the respect that once was

The latest thing that I read was that he is now having his own magazine. "Jamie Magazine".

Jamie Oliver has had quite the influence on me. I applied to - and got accepted at - Copenhagen Catering College after seeing him being so enthusiastic about food on "The Naked Chef". I was enchanted when he started Fifteen and thrilled when he came through on the school dinners. And I don't know what took him so long before doing something like "Jamie's Italian Escape", doing something for himself.

But somehow it just seems to go too far in the non-sexual exhibitionistic direction. It's all out there on the telly - also involving Jools (Jamie's missus) breaking down in tears by the mention of (false) rumours of Jamie cheating on her and the birth of one of their two first daughters (I can't remember which for the life of me).

And now a magazine.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure he's genuine and wants to do good with it, just as he says. And having a magazine has been a dream of his. And he can channel a lot of experience from himself and a lot of other people in that magazine. But "Jamie Magazine"?!

*sigh*

I know that Jamie knows his shit. But although I first saw him as a pompous arse, and in spite of doing reality TV ("Hell's Kitchen") and having several restaurants and michelin stars around the world, I still have more respect for Gordon Ramsay and find him much less overexposed.

I never imagined the day that I god sick of Jamie Oliver. But now I do.