What is Cooking in Your Kitchen This Week?
Marilyn Sue McClintock
3 years ago
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Comments (31)Hmm. Dogs. We had a medium small poodle named Tappy growing up. Once while dining Sunday dinner, something came on the news in the other room. The 5 of us, for some reason, hurried in there to hear whatever. Came back to find Tappy on the table, actually standing on the roast chewing as fast as she could. We laughed so hard even the dog was confused. Me: You know those chocolate covered espresso beans? Well, about 25 (or more) years ago I decided it would be totally cool to have chocolate flavored espresso. I should have known it wouldn't be wise when the beans clogged up and stopped the blades in my little bean grinder. Nonetheless, I packed them happily into my little Krupp's espresso basket and fired 'er up. As I was doing dishes next to it, I noticed steam coming out of the top of the machine. "Hmmmm..." I thought again. I heard a noise out the window and turned to look out. At that moment, my espresso machine exploded, blowing the screw top up into the bottom of the overhead counter, and the grinds basket down through the carafe and the little espresso machine bottom to put a bull's eye slammed dent into the counter below. Cats ran everywhere and my heart about stopped. Minutes later, as I was wiping up the water and crap from the kitchen, picking glass shards out of my sweater, I was on the phone to BB&B to tell them I needed another machine because mine had just exploded. I left out the chocolate covered coffee bean part. Ironically, just this morning I was making espresso (you can tell I've been devoted for years) in the replacement machine, and I realized it was probably 25 or so years old. No planned obsolescence here! - - - - - - - - - - - -> Another good one is my former SIL. Speaking of Joy... Her DH didn't like soap bottles on the sink, for some reason. Fine. Everything else in the house was covered with ... stuff ... but he didn't like the soap bottles. She put the soap in some nice bottle thing by the sink. One day, she made her wonderful homemade bread. Warm and crusty, a perfect loaf came out. Her family, however, actually spit it out on their plates at dinner. Evidently she'd grabbed the soap bottle rather than the oil bottle and made bread with liquid dish soap. She bemoaned that it was the best loaf she'd ever made. She did, though, tell her DH he could stuff it and went back to safer plastic, labeled bottles for soap. He evidently did stuff it, because a few years later, after being together for 30+ years, he realized he was gay. Left her, their 2 adopted daughters, quit their church, moved to another state (nearby enough to commute) and lives with his boy toy. I wonder if he makes bread?...See MoreOT: What is cooking this week?
Comments (27)Missed this, but good to know that those wild pigs are good for something...eating. :-) I just made a simple chicken stir fry with what veggies I had on hand. Nothing too time consuming with a split work schedule. A local farm just had the best crop of peaches in 80 years. I went there and bought enough to have several to eat fresh and sliced and froze the rest for later. I saw something online about scoring the skin, dropping them in boiling water for 20 seconds and the skin peels right off. You then plunge them in ice water to stop the cooking process. Worked like a charm! Made the process go much quicker. It's interesting seeing what people eat from different areas of the country (countries). Sometimes I get tired of the same ole thing....See MoreWeek 124 - What's your neighborhood kitchen styles?
Comments (20)Lots of granite in the remodeled ones. Basic appliances from Sears/Best Buy etc. in stainless. Maple, Oak or Cherry. Mostly veneers. Large format tile floors. Our home was built in 1976 and many haven't remodeled at all. Those that have do more replacement than actual remodeling. I doubt many even know that Ikea does kitchens. My kitchen in progress is high-end (LOL) for the neighborhood. I am probably the only one on my block who has gas much less a 36" open burner range and a Ventahood. The addition of a wall oven will put it over the top. ;-) I just ordered Kraftmaid cabs in Hickory. We are remodeling for function and how we want things to be. Not worried about resale since we plan to continue aging in place. A friend in an adjoining neighborhood just had her kitchen done. Used some buy a "kitchen in a box" place she found at a home show. Haven't seen her kitchen yet. They came to her house with samples of what they offered from cabinets to appliances and she chose from that. I find most people I talk to are like that. The research, interesting product sharing and number crunching we do here on this site are not what I find in my neighborhood or among my friends in general....See MoreWeek 128 - Christmas - is your kitchen set up for large scale cooking?
Comments (20)mgmum, your messaging is not enabled, so I'll post a link to my OneDrive Kitchen album (scroll down to skip my wandering explanation). It starts with the hand-drawn plan--I found GW before I knew how to upload pics or use a Paint program. I did a DIY mini-remodel using some cabinets from the old kitchen, some new cabinets, and some salvaged cabinets and other recycled/upcycled elements. If you click on each pic, then click on it again, the captions should appear. The whole mess is documented, so if you just want to see the final result, scroll to the end. I mentioned hosting big family dinners--the kitchen is set up specifically to facilitate feeding a crowd. I could have a better working layout, but I need the long counter with no appliances, and a direct path to the new dining room. The range used to be on that wall, and the burners would still be hot from cooking, when it was time to serve the buffet. Many times I've covered the still-warm burners with a noodle board, so no one would accidentally touch them. I moved the range across the room, in part to clear that wall, but also to vent it to the outside. My vented hood is one of my favorite parts of the new kitchen. So, we start in the LR, file past the buffet serving counters (counter on one side, island on the other), and walk directly into the new dining/flex room. I'll include the link for that album, too, although you can see it in the background of the kitchen pics. Scroll down for a pic of the table set for 20. We can seat 6 at the kitchen dining table (usually the teens/young adults), which is open to the kitchen on the other side, and four more at a drop leaf table, which we move from the new room to the LR, which is connected through another opening, so no one is isolated in another room. I live in an older home with a circular traffic pattern--I guess now it's more of a figure-8. Before adding the new room, we had to move chairs out of the LR, push everything else against the walls, and squeeze around each other to seat the whole family together. One Thanksgiving we seated 24 at tables in the LR, and I said, "Never again, unless we have a separate dining room!" I think I've posted the story before, but that year my FIL had a friend visiting from the UK, and they decided to come early and visit with my DH, which left me without my usual help, so I was really running behind schedule. Then my mother arrived with her friend, who became bored because the British friend was getting all the attention. Mother's friend decided that since I was alone in the kitchen, he should come in and sing to me--'Devil in Disguise', while I shooed him from one spot to another, as I needed to check the oven, open the fridge, grab something from a drawer, etc. My mother dragged him back to the LR, but as soon as her attention was again on the interesting British friend, 'Elvis' returned for an encore. As more family members arrived with their dishes, he decided that holding court in the kitchen suited him just fine. I was ready to wring his neck by the time I had the buffet laid out. Now, I can set up the tables the night before, place the serving pieces on the long buffet counter early in the day, have everyone seated comfortably in the LR before the meal, set the drinks up on the island at the last minute, give the signal for the blessing, and breathe a sigh of relief. Everything is arranged for point of use, and my relatives know where to find things without asking, so if I'm running behind, they can set up tables and chairs, set up the coffee maker, set the tables, etc. I have trained them well. ;) Kitchen album New addition/dining room/playroom...See More
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3 years agolast modified: 3 years agoToday was my oldest sisters birthday and so I made her a batch of her favorite nibble, olive bread. I put it together when I got off work this morning and delivered it to her before I left for work this evening.
Forgive the mess. I'm a messy cook and just got done cooking breakfast when I made the nibbles.
No other specific plans for cooking other than cooking will be done.....
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3 years agoHere is a photo of the pumpkin swirl cheesecake I posted about above! I added some sweetened whipped cream to the top. We haven't eaten it yet, but I snuck some nibbles of the gingersnap crust and it was delicious!
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