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?