I've been tagged by Kathryn’s Reliquary
I was tagged by Kathryn to do this kitchen questionnaire and thought it looked really fun...

1. How many meals does most of your family eat at home each week? How many are in your family? We eat at home practically all the time. My husband is gone by the week so I only have to cook 2 or 3 meals for him at the most in a 7 day period. I have 2 boys and one who is very picky so my menu choices are limited.
2. How many cookbooks do you own? Not more than 20.
3. How often do you refer to a cookbook each week? Probably several times a week. My menu choices are very basic right now. The kids are very happy with a basic roast with potatoes & veggies, or wieners and Kraft Dinner, sausage or meatballs & mashed potatoes, or spaghetti & hamburger. This is all stuff that is in the house so I don't need a recipe book unless I disregard the boys' taste and make what I like!
4. Do you collect recipes from other sources? If so, what are some of your favorite sources (relatives, friends, magazines, advertisements, packages, the internet, etc.)? I will collect recipes from my friends, the newspaper,& Taste of Home.
5. How do you store those recipes? I have a 3 ring binder where I store the recipes from my friends or the newspaper. I usually keep the whole TOH magazine on a stack in my cupboard.
6. When you cook, do you follow the recipe pretty closely, or do you use recipes primarily to give you ideas? I will follow a new recipe quite closely, but like
Kathryn there are some things I know just won’t work and I will adjust it. But I don’t use recipes to give me ideas. I use that method when I scrapbook!
7. Is there a particular ethnic style or flavor that predominates in your cooking? If so, what is it? We stick with the basic Mennonite cooking. Although I can throw in some Italian. We really enjoy BBQ in the summer.
8. What’s your favorite kitchen task related to meal planning and preparation? (eating the finished product does not count) Everything about meal planning & preparation is work. I don’t hate it but it is something that I have to force myself to do. When I get a meal together though it does taste good if I do say so myself!
9. What’s your least favorite part? It’s a toss up between planning and clean up. The actual cooking is not so bad. I think meal time comes around way too soon!
10. Do you plan menus before you shop? I have a basic idea in mind. Most of my main ingredients are in the house anyway such as meat & vegetables in the freezer so I don’t have to buy that kind of stuff. I just need to have the ingredients to go with it.
11. What are your three favorite kitchen tools or appliances? I love my blue glazed stoneware pan I received as a gift. I use it for strombolli all the time. I am also very thankful for my Quik chef from Tupperware.. I also like my cookware set.
12. If you could buy one new thing for your kitchen, money was no object, and space not an issue, what would you most like to have? We want to take a bulldozer to our house. I would like a whole new kitchen, especially nice and lots of cupboards, particularly a pantry.
13. Since money and space are probably objects, what are you most likely to buy next? I would love a full sized stove with the flat range.
14. Do you have a separate freezer for storage? Yes. I have two.
15. Grocery shop alone or with others? Almost always with my two kids.
16. How many meatless main dish meals do you fix in a week? None.
17. If you have a decorating theme in your kitchen, what is it? Favorite kitchen colors?
My whole house is done in a seafoam green with white trim and pink or lavender as an accent colour. So I have border in my kitchen with the country cottage look, lots of flowers and birds. Even my Sunday dishes match my kitchen. That just happened. When I picked my colours for my kitchen I was not thinking about my dishes but now it is fun to set the table and everything matches.
18. What’s the first thing you ever learned to cook, and how old were you? I think it was icing for cream buns or maybe meatloaf. I also mixed puddings for supper too. I would have been around10 when I started doing that and making lunches for school in the morning.
19. How did you learn to cook? My mom would have started me off but she was very busy with 9 children and two of them completely handicapped. She did not have more time than the very basics for meals. I learned the most from a man that I had to work for who was a quadriplegic. He loved to watch cooking shows and then I had to do the work! I learned to cook with Emeril spices because of him. I also enjoy reading recipe books.
20. Tagging…