Saturday, November 7, 2015

Lists of 10

Everyone loves lists, right?

10 of my favourite things (at this moment):

  1. drink: tea (especially forever nuts from David's Tea)
  2. food: Middle Eastern (had lunch at Paramount today: hummus, pita, fattoush, shwarma, kofta.. yum!)
  3. alcohol: white wine (gin if it's harder liquor)
  4. author: Haruki Murakami
  5. music: The Arcs
  6. magazine: Bon Appetit
  7. colour: forest or olive green (& burgundy... I love them both equally!)
  8. metal: copper
  9. season: fall
  10. outfit: skinny pants (green or burgundy) & my white, patterned tunic / blouse

10 of my favourite people (in no particular order... kinda):

  1. Pat
  2. gramma
  3. mom & dad
  4. my parents-in-law
  5. Matt & John (anyone who knows my brothers knows why they're combined here)
  6. my sisters-in-law & brother-in-law 
  7. my niece & nephews
  8. our extended family
  9. my co-workers (most of them)
  10. my manager & (most of) the doctors I work with
10 of my favourite books:
  1. 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami (& everything else he's written)
  2. Queen of the Damned - Anne Rice (& everything else she's written)
  3. The Emperor of all Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee
  4. The 100-Year-Old Man who Climbed out the Window & Disappeared - Jonas Jonasson
  5. Outlander - Diana Gabaldon (& the rest of the series)
  6. The Pillars of the Earth - Ken Follett & everything else he's written)
  7. River God - Wilbur Smith (& everything else he's written)
  8. The Glass Castle - Jeannette Walls
  9. The Sisters Brothers - Patrick DeWitt
  10. A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin (& the rest of the series)
10 more books I really loved:
  1. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks - Rebecca Skloot
  2. Naoko - Keigo Higashino
  3. In the Orchard, the Swallows - Peter Hobbs
  4. Ru - Kim Thuy
  5. The Good Man Jesus & the Scoundrel Christ - Philip Pullman
  6. The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
  7. Elizabeth is Missing - Emma Healey
  8. A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini
  9. Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
  10. Labyrinth - Kate Mosse
There are so many other books I could list - but I'll restrain myself to these 20 I spotted on my shelf!

10 favourite home-made dishes: 
  1. macaroni & cheese
  2. enchiladas (chicken &/or beef)
  3. chicken & dumplings
  4. French onion soup
  5. chicken rice/grains/lentil soup (with home-made chicken broth)
  6. "sausage stuff" ("la giblotte" - a sausage & tomato stew on rice)
  7. lasagne
  8. pork tenderloin, 2 ways: baked with grainy mustard or marinated & stir-fried with udon noodles & napa cabbage
  9. quinoa salad
  10. veggie pasta with simple lemony non-sauce
What are 10 of your favourite things?

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