Well, skunks. I got tagged by Elaine. 
1. How many meals does most of your family eat at home each week? How many are in your family?
There are just three of us at home now....Don, Dmitry, and me. We eat dinner out maybe once every two weeks, though we "import" food from outside at least once, too. Except for weekends the only one home to eat lunch is me.
2. How many cookbooks do you own? How often do you refer to a cookbook each week?
Define cookbook. I have three to four dozen actual cookBOOKS, including some in a box that I unfortunately can't find from when we had the flooring replaced, but more cooking magazines than you can shake a stick at. Maybe once or twice a week I refer to them; most meals I make from memory.
4. Do you collect recipes from other sources?
I get a lot of my recipes off the internet, mostly from Allrecipes and Recipezaar.
5. How do you store those recipes?
Print 'em out full page and shove 'em on top of cookbooks in one of my bookcases in the dining room. I'm elegant, I am.
7. Is there a particular ethnic style or flavor that predominates in your cooking? If so, what is it?
Italian and Mexican. Dmitry's extremely fond of both, so we eat a lot of dishes with those flavorings.
8. What’s your favorite kitchen task related to meal planning and preparation?
Thumbing through books, magazines, and websites for new recipes.
9. What’s your least favorite part?
Doing the actual cooking. I'm not now, nor have I ever been, and it doesn't look good for my ever becoming, an enthuiastic cook. It's a chore, that's all.
10. Do you plan menus before you shop?
Sometimes. All too often I find myself standing in the grocery store, peering at what's on sale while trying to remember what's necessary for some dish and whether I have it or not. Usually guess wrong.
11. What are your three favorite kitchen tools or appliances?
My wooden spatulas are my most used implements....how anyone manages without them I can't think. My stoneware bake stones, both round and rectangle. And my coffee maker.
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?
That's easy....a freezer. No room for one at Chez Ivy, though. 
13. Since money and space probably are objects, what are you most likely to buy next?
A sifter. I don't own one.
14. Do you have a separate freezer for storage?
No. See #12.
15. Grocery shop alone or with others?
Alone. Years ago, of course, it was a group activity as trailing along behind me would be the four children (this predated Charles). The checkers at the grocery stores said we looked like a mama duck with her ducklings.
16. How many meatless main dish meals do you fix in a week?
Maybe once, counting tuna as "meatless".
17. If you have a decorating theme in your kitchen, what is it?
That's so cute. "Decorating theme"!
18. What’s the first thing you ever learned to cook, and how old were you?
Barbequed hot dogs when I was 18 and dating Don. Take hot dogs, put 'em in a shallow baking pan, cover them with bottled barbeque sauce and bake. Still like those, AAMOF.
19. How did you learn to cook?
Got married and relied upon the Good Housekeeping cookbook I was given. And calling Mom.
20. Tag two other people to play.
Beth and Lois....y'all are up, dears. The first has only been married a few years, while the other's been married since Hector was a pup. I'm interested to read their responses. 
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