Towel Pig? This one reminded me of old threads and ongoing search
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The Cheap Cuts And Offal Thread
Comments (45)Some things are just so bloody good, : ). I do make my own scrapple and sent out 'kits' one x-mas with a recipe to family that misses it from our youth. (our favorite home town brand is Rappa) It is just polenta with spices heavy in sage...and pork. Like a southern dirty rice, Louisiana, or Boudin that uses rice. Offal in the NYC area can get pricey. My local international store went bankrupt... : ( Bags of goat were a bit expensive. Trotters, guinea pigs, (rats, lol) were way over what i would spend. Fresh pizzels were $9 a lb. Simmering cod britches, (roe), sent DH out the door for fresh air. I love it, he hates it. I grew up on scrapple, he did not. And he loves it. A friend not familiar hates it. I do keep chicken paws in the freezer and marrow bones and beef neck bones for stock and dog treats. Just one chick paw, snipped nails, is so good in a veggie stock. (obviously not for a vegetarian), but makes a good veg stock without a strong chick or meat flavor. I've sampled a bit over the years from travel...goat heads in Greece...and a good friend wants the cod eyes after grilling..."you go girl !"...but not for me. I take shrimp tails from everyones plate and pop them back on the grill, skewered, for a bit of crisp and eat them like pop corn...where did that come from?... I love it and i've never met anyone else that does that. My love of soft-shelled crabs? (sooo much flavor wasted!) When we lived in the city, our sunday out was a favorite sushi place in the east village. Dh ordered a special....looked like a delicate tiny noodle....I pointed out, after a good taste or two that each tiny noodle had two eyes on one end and were alive and wiggling. haha...See MoreMY personal towel pig...another great idea directly from GW!
Comments (9)Oh now this is just too funny. I saw your precious pig in your post today about moving back in, and I focused in on him right away. I totally missed the chocolate cake, but I saw the pig! I had not noticed this towel pig post at all, but just now I searched for the ORIGINAL towel pig thread (just to reminisce a bit) and your post came up. Alas, the original towel pig thread DOES NOT come up. Oh, the inhumanity! Anyway, I LOVE your guy! He's perfect. I, too, have a pig that I have had for quite awhile. Finally tried him out for holding my dish rag. Guess we shall call him "dish rag pig." Don't have a pic of him in service at the moment holding said rag. I'm away from home right now, but I do have this pic to offer up to show you what he looks like...sans rag. You can just barely make him out there to the slight left of the sink...cute! When I do drape my little dish rag on his head and fold it back just a bit, he reminds me of a nun. LOL! pup...See MorePlease tell me where do you hang a t-towel for hand drying?
Comments (86)Oh - I have been asking the same questions for years and not found a good solution. When we redid out kitchen last year we decided to go for laminate (Formica) cabinets that we had custom made for us because we wanted the durability and ability to stand up to dampness. I planned to use large bar-type pulls on the drawers and cabinets and could hang towels wherever I wanted without fear of damaging the cabinets. Unfortunately, the cabinets didn't meet with out approval (a real problem with sight-unseen custom cabinetry) so I'm now using the DW handle (located next to the prep sink). This is fine for wiping clean hands and an wet apple or tomato after washing, but not good for drying dishes over at the clean-up sink - that DW doesn't have a handle. So I leave a towel draped over the dish rack next to the sink. I am mentally designing a towel holder that would sit on the counter or in the dish rack, similar to the ones you can get for hand towels in a bathroom. I don't want it to take up too much space on the counter and I don't want to drip on the counter so this is a challenge. We're redoing our kitchen, again, and will probably end up with wood cabinets. I am thinking about getting some sort of shield for the apron in front of the sink and the sink cabinet door to protect it from water from spills and a towel hanging there. (Now there's an idea for an enterprising inventor!) I might even choose a completely different door for that location, maybe thermafoil or such, and incorporate it into the "design." It's probably going to be my last kitchen and as for my body, I'm too old to worry about appearances. I'm more concerned about function than form!...See More"soft modern" small kitchen reno - Part III of the ongoing saga ;)
Comments (40)nosoccermom - thanks for the great ideas! Very interesting info about printing a glass backsplash (!!), and attaching it. I think there's quite a range between attaching a piece of glass to go behind the range, vs a professionally installed glass backsplash. I looked into some aspects of this as well, and found that Starphire glass doesn't have the blue tinge, which adds a strange colour element (may or may not be desirable). I guess glass isn't something I can completely rule out. raee_gw zone 5b-6a - thanks for chiming in. Good to know that paint has worked for you! cpartist - to my eye, materials like Neolith, quartz, etc. don't really look right beside my granite counters. It's hard to tell from the photos, but there is some translucency and depth to the natural granite that makes a lot of manufactured materials look unpleasantly flat beside it. cluelessincolorado - thanks for sharing that inspiration photo...very beautiful....See Morewannaknow2
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