My favorite thing in my new kitchen is...
Melissa Kroger
7 years ago
My new sink! I've been cooking in and using my new kitchen for about 10 days and I have to say that I love my new sink! It's a Rachiele 36" stainless farmhouse sink in the millennia finish. It sat in my garage for about 6 months due to numerous delays and I had a lot of time to question my choice, but I am very pleased! Plenty deep and wide, sloped bottom for easy draining, incredibly easy to clean and a ledge for accessories! The millennia finish is amazing!
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7 years agolast modified: 7 years agoMelissa Kroger
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Comments (107)Hi All, My box came! I got a wonderful box from Maryanne : ) She wrapped up everything in pretty garden motif paper. So it was like Christmas. Much of the box is very bird related which is great because they are some of my favorite things too. The box contained: not one but 2!! tube feeders, one is specifically for finches and one is for other small birds A window bird feeder A hummingbird feeder-you can never have too many feeders, IMHO! hummingbird food A whimsical bird designed wind chime A garden tool caddy for putting around a bucket-this is good for me because I tend to lose things while gardening 2 pkgs. of annual cut flower seeds, the pkgs. are cool looking. They are advertisements for the Philadelphia museum of Art show "Renoir Landscapes"-You didn't even know Renoir was my favorite artist! I did get to see his "Luncheon of the Boating Party" painting in person and it was amazing. I digress, back to the box, lol. 2 cookbooks! One is 'Preserves and Canning'-how great is that! One is 'The Saint Louis Cookbook'- another perfect one for my regional cookbook collection Now this is hillarious. In the box there was a refrigerator magnet, which is nice in itself, because I decorate my fridge with them, but what does it say?.... "Beware of Attack Gardener"!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL! Is that too funny or what? Thanks so much for a great box Maryanne! I love it all too!! : ) Talk to you all soon, Remy...See MoreWANTED: Diana55 sent *my* favorite things!
Comments (26)So glad you like everything !!! I really didn't know what to buy you, but I figured you can't go wrong with Desserts. I have a Glass bottom Springfoarm pan, and they are great, because you can cut right on them. No I didn't make the box....I bought it. I'm just not that talented!!!LOL So glad it got to your house safetly too. Enjoy !!! Diana55...See MoreThese are a few of my favorite things
Comments (55)What an uplifting thread! Things that recently brought me joy: Finding a Vizsla puppy on Sunday and watching him chase my 100 lb black lab around the house all afternoon until his owner retrieved him from us. Listening to the funny comments my kids were making as they put their many years of ornaments on the Christmas tree. Making dinner last night and my younger two kids asking if they could help me make the marinade and chop the vegetables. Seeing my 72 y/o mother asleep on my couch Saturday night with a book propped up on her lap...a familiar sight from my youth. Her love of reading inspired my own. Walking through the mall and seeing all the little ones dressed up in Christmas clothes on their way to see Santa. Mine have outgrown that. Watching my 10 y/o finish a local 5K race, 20th place overall out of over 200+ runners (first place in his age group), and seeing his sprint to the finish, passing a man at the last minute who had been running ahead of us for the last mile. While he's a good athlete on team sports, he struggles mightily in school due to a learning disability and as a result, suffers from low self esteem. He has recently found a love of running, something that he's really good at as an individual, which is great for his self-esteem. This note, that my 8 y/o left for our "elf on the shelf" - this was the first one which she left for him two weeks ago. She wrote another the other night which had dh laughing so hard he couldn't even read it aloud to me. Among other things in the second note, she wanted to know if all elves have squeaky voices. :) This post was edited by fourkids4us on Tue, Dec 17, 13 at 21:58...See MoreThe best thing in my kitchen is...
Comments (57)This thread is totally fascinating to me, because it highlights the fact that what you value most in kitchen items is so heavily dependent on who you are as a cook. For example, if someone gave me a rice cooker, it would end up on a shelf in a closet somewhere, because I've been making rice the same way for thirty years and it turns out exactly the way I want it to, every time. On the other hand, I'd be lost without my mandolin slicer and my OXO garlic chopper, because those save me a ton of time. I rarely use my pretty santoku knife, but couldn't live without my 5" Wusthof Classic serrated. Some people use their food processors to grate everything, while others prefer the control of an old-fashioned box grater. I think if you're a newlywed or just setting up your first "grownup" kitchen, it's probably best to stick with the basics until you develop your own cooking personality. A basic set of the best knives you can afford, plastic and glass mixing bowls in graduated sizes for prep and mixing, a good selection of sturdy spatulas/wooden spoons/whisks, a couple of basic half-sheet and quarter-sheet pans with lips on all edges, at least two cutting boards, a good set of pots and pans with well-fitted lids including a few non-stick, measuring cups/spoons, a few glass baking dishes, a sieve that adjusts to fit over your sink, and a decent hand mixer should get anyone started. Oh - and a decent vegetable peeler! If I had to narrow the things in my kitchen down to the single most critical item, I'd have to say that would be my whetstone. It's not an expensive or glamorous item, but if you don't keep your knives sharp, everything you do in the kitchen is more difficult and frustrating than it needs to be. And those electric sharpeners usually do more damage than good to an expensive knife....See Morerjknsf
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7 years agorjknsf- Yes, the pendants are matte black outside and gold inside. I mainly got them because DH loved them, I probably would have picked something a bit quieter. I'm having a hard time picking something for over the sink that will coordinate with them, but not stand out too much. The glow from the gold interior is amazing but they produce very little light. We have a ton of recessed lighting so it doesn't matter.
Busymom! Are you looking in the TO/ Ventura area? I looked locally early on and couldn't find a thing. I ended up getting my slabs in San Diego which is where I got my soapstone.
Anglophelia- I love the idea of a dedicated drawer for dog kibble! I thought about it but didn't want to give up a drawer. We did include a spot for the water bowl for our 2 dogs and 2 cats.
mushcreek- saying you love your wife more than the kitchen is not sexist at all! How great that you are happy with everything in your kitchen! I'm pretty pleased with my choices and relieved that we are basically done. We just need a few adjustments on the cabinets and the backsplash and potfiller installed. Tile samples from Fireclay arrive tomorrow and ones from Heath the next day, so hopefully I will love something enough to commit (fingers crossed).
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