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Ten on Tuesday: Food! Hosted by Chelsea, at one of my favorite blogs to read (though I don't think she knows that, cause I've never talked to her. Hi Chelsea! I like reading your blog =)

1.  What condiments are always, always in your fridge?
Mayo. Hot sauce and/or salsa for Nate. But for me? Mayo. I don't like ketchup, mustard, relish (aka pickles) or most salad dressings, so it's really the only one left. Unless cream cheese counts?

2.   How do you like your steak cooked?  Your burgers?
I don't much like steak, but in the form of carpaccio, I'm ok with it. So...raw. But if it has to be cooked, probably medium rare. My burgers I like basically steamed, so that they're fully cooked all the way through, but are still super tender and moist. Mostly I eat them medium well, though, since you have to be careful with ground beef.

3.  What’s your favorite use for fresh tomatoes?
Another thing I'm not terribly fond of, because the acidity hurts my tongue. But I do like a nice fresh slice of tomato on a sandwich.

4.  What’s your go-to dinner when you haven’t planned anything in advance and you don’t feel like going out?
Pasta. Usually with pre-made sauce that has extra veggies and/or meat added in. With cheese. Lots and lots of cheese.

5.  What’s your favorite snack food lately?
Cake? Erm...I've also been eating a mix of almonds, chocolate chips and dried coconut.

6.  What’s your favorite weekend breakfast to make at home? 
I actually don't make much breakfast on the weekends since we got to Seattle. I think because I'm sleepy and don't get up, and then it's lunch time. Or because the dishes in the sink are still dirty from dinner the night before because I hate cleaning. But if I do make it, eggs, wheat toast, cheese grits. Potatoes if I'm feeling fancy.

7.  What’s your favorite thing to grill?  How do you do it? 
I'm not a huge fan of grilled flavor, and I also don't grill, so that kind of puts a damper on this question. But I'd have to say salmon. Or hot dogs.

8.  What’s your favorite wine for under $10? If you’re not a wine person, what brand of beer is your favorite?
Yellow Tail Whites are pretty delicious. There's also this Green Apple Wine that The Winery in Tallahassee makes at their vineyard that's under $10 a glass, does that count? (This wine always makes me think of my friends Leslie and Jessamyn -- specifically the night Jessamyn and I decided to get completely wasted have a little too much wine sitting at the bar in The Winery and talk about a lot of things that I don't remember now. We also may have then gone over to Waterworks. What?)

9.  Give us your most delicious cocktail recipe.
Vanilla Vodka and Root Beer. Alcoholic root beer float! I'm also a sucker for coconut rum and pineapple juice.

10.  How do you like your eggs?
If they're scrambled, dry and dead and smothered with cheese. Otherwise, Over-Medium. I can tell you the different between all the over-'blanks,' if you care to know. I worked in a breakfast restaurant. I don't like the texture of the yolk when it's cooked -- though, for some reason scrambled is fine -- but I also don't like my egg whites runny at all. So I'm Over-Medium all the way =) Whites fully cooked, yolk fully runny. It's the hardest way to make eggs -- leaving the yolk runny, without breaking it, while cooking the whites all the way through. This means I am pleasantly surprised when they can get it right at a restaurant.

-C