this seems to be going around...!

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Ask me my top 5 anything, and I'll have a crack :)

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[used_songs]

What are your top 5 cheeses or cheese-related foods?

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Guess for this one I'll have a cracker instead, eyyy.

1. Apricot & almond
2. Haloumi
3. Brie
4. Homemade mac n' cheese
5. Grilled cheese

Ha!

[used_songs]

Grilled cheese! Yummmmmmm!

Re: Ha!

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A classic!

[sunlit_stone]

...that is an excellent and also very hungry-making list. Now I want some!

[sideways]

Be the cheese you want to eat in the world <3

[sunlit_stone]

I did make an open-faced toasted cheese sandwich! Though with Costco Jarlsberg, not anything fancy :)

[nyctanthes]

Pasta shapes!

and/or

Songs to dance to

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Please forgive my ignorance of true pasta names.

1. Shells
2. Tubes
3. Twists
4. Wagon wheels
5. Bow-ties

And dancey-dance songs! Rated for best boppage around the kitchen while cooking.

1. "What I Like About You", The Romantics
2. "Absolutely Everybody", Vanessa Amorosi
3. "Walking on Broken Glass", Annie Diva Lennox
4. "Shiny Happy People", REM
5. "Six Months in a Leaky Boat", Split Enz

[nyctanthes]

I like the songs!

My favorite pasta shape: spaghetti. I love a noodle, no matter what the culture. Slurp, slurp. It's so satisfying.

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Completely fair. I'm more of a flat noodle than skinny noodle person, but honestly all pastas and noodles are things of deliciousness. Even zoodles!

[nyctanthes]

I *could* google this but....zoodle? Explain?

[nyctanthes]

Please tell me it's not a noodle made from zucchini.

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.........well if I don't tell you, you never have to know :)?

[nyctanthes]

Ignorance is bliss. 😜

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My old housemate had to go on a low-carb diet, so...

Honestly, they weren't bad! The trick is to leave just enough crunch to maintain texture.

[kaffy_r]

Alright, I'll bite. Hmmm ... your top five comfort reads, or your top five comfort foods.

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Hmm, I had to think about this.

1. Rowan of Rin series by Emily Rodda - a childhood favourite with simple but well-spun worldbuilding, and an emphasis on people who don't fit in still being valuable and the strength of community.

2. Protector of the Small quartet by Tamora Pierce - another childhood fave, in which someone works really hard and tries to do the right thing and it mostly pays off. And I like the focus on the smaller life moments compared to Alanna or Daine, who have extremely high stakes adventures all of the time.

3. The Books of the Raksura, by Martha Wells - just this morning a friend linked me to a really great post about why these books are such good comfort food.

4. The Complete James Herriot - levels of comfort depend on the individual story, but there's so much of humans being humans swirled in with a love of animals and it's a comfy place to sink into.

5. Dogsbody by Diana Wynne Jones - hello, my name is Winger, I like reading the books I loved as a kid when I'm blue.

[anneapocalypse]

Hot beverages

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>>a

1. Turkish delight hot chocolate
2. Raspberry hot chocolate
3. Regular hot chocolate
4. Milo, heated
5. The milk that was warmed by my oatmeal

[anneapocalypse]

I sense a theme. ;)

I'm having a hard time imagining Turkish delight hot chocolate but it sounds very interesting.

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I WISH I liked tea or coffee :(

I've only had rosewatered hot choc once but I've pined ever since.

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Fantasy/alien species?

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This was surprisingly difficult. I'm going to hit post and immediately question my choices, just watch me. (I left synthetic and GMO species off the list in a vain attempt to make this easier.)

1. Raksura (Books of the Raksura)
2. Andalites (Animorphs)
3. Salarians (Mass Effect)
4. Nighthorses (Finisterre)
5. Angels / celestials (various)

[cloudwrack]

Fictional characters?

(If that’s too broad, narrow it down to a media type of your choice.)

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HMMM. This is very difficult and a list that fluctuates frequently, but some reliable faves include:

1. Peter Parker (Spider-Man Comics)
2. Tali'Zorah (Mass Effect)
3. Helena (Orphan Black)
4. Harold Finch (Person of Interest)
5. Mal (Widdershins)

[wheatear]

Video games?

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:)!

1. Inside
2. Mass Effect 2
3. Fallout: New Vegas
4. Soma
5. Oxenfree