You might be a foodie...

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"You might be a foodie if....

Posted by buffy, March 5, 2010 at 10:11 PM

My friend brought up this topic the other day and I thought it was hilarious. What quirks do you have that identify you as a foodie? His was, "...if you want to make a grilled-cheese sandwich, but you only have three kinds of cheese.""

here's mine

.... if you browse your cookbook shelves when you're looking for a good book to read.

I'm definitely in the category of spending more money on food and kitchen stuff than clothes. I hate to shop for anything except food. When it's food shopping time, I'm there, babe!

And the camera bit, too, but in my own kitchen not in a restaurant. I have a photobucket album with lots and lots of food pics.

And spending an entire free day in the kitchen.

These, too:

...you buy ingredients because they look great and figure out what to make with them later.

...when someone asks you what your favorite food is and you can't answer

...if your friends get mad when you show up at a party and didn't make your famous (whatever)because you wanted to try a new recipe....

...your friends tell you conversations with you always make them hungry

...grocery shopping is a mood-booster

...You fall in love with a dish at a restaurant and decide you want to recreate it at home - successfully

I'm going to stop reading now before it gets worse. There are many more extremes on there that I don't fit into. LOL

My sides are aching. I'm the one on the airplane with a cookbook to kill time (if you can get me out of the kitchen).
My idea of cooking success is to get someone to try something new.

I have more pots and pans than underwear.

and I'm a centipede because my feet tend to change shape frequently depending on what parts are swollen and I need to adjust my footwear.

You know you're a foodie if you read cookbooks like sane people read novels.

You know you're a foodie when you're bored by travelogues and movies unless they feature people chopping stuff up and stuffing their faces in every scene.

You know you're a foodie when you have to explain to checkout stand clerks how your weird veggies are spelled and how to cook them, annoying the six people behind you.

You know you're a foodie when you send your regrets to any gathering that doesn't specify everybody bring something to eat. (I haven't been to a wedding that didn't have a covered dish reception in 32 years)

You know you're a foodie when you can't sleep and you get up at 2:30 AM and go cook something.

You know you're a foodie when you can order from the menu in 8 different languages but can't speak a word of any of them in normal conversation.

You know you're a foodie when all the pictures you've lifted from photo.net to vary your wallpaper are all of food.

:hi:

When you start planning your next meal before you finish the one in front of you.

:hi:

:rofl:

.... you might be a foodie!

:rofl:

That's my favorite tourist activity. And when anyone comes home from a trip, I always want to know what they had to eat.

..... chocolates ....... an in-grocery-store wine tasting ......... you get the idea! :)

local supermarket near the village I stayed in - not to buy much food, mind you, because I wanted to spend my money in the little village shops, but I just HAD to see what filled the shelves of a FRENCH supermarket.

I also love browsing in our local Middle Eastern and Indian and asian and kosher and Hispanic markets right here in Los Angeles, lol.

and then taking digital pictures and THEN taking pictures when the family is seated. :)

You store a variety of vinegars, oils, and mustards because you might need them.

You have several folders on your computer for food links, recipes, and shopping for kitchen items.

You research and plan out "snack stops" when you are going out of town.

When I get ready to try a new recipe for Sunday dinner, I just can't wait until it's time to get started.

And markets... When I lived in Sicily for four years, the market in our tiny town was great! The wonderful fruits and vegetables, the fresh fish - I think I need to make a run to the store, see what looks good.

haven't made a fraction of the recipes in them, I just love to read em. All kinds, ethnic, oddball, organic, church dinner, antique - and I will never part with one of them. Don't know if it makes me a foodie or not, but my family sure thinks it odd.

Oh, and shopping in foreign groceries - I love it! I can't bring home postcards and cheesy snowglobes - nope, I bring home pasta and focaccia mix and honeys and cereal and biscuits . . . Yummmm!!

you qualify!

I even like the fundraiser cookbooks. You just cannot have too many cookbooks!

:hi:

in the pantry.