Archive for kitchen

Vintagey stripe envy

As you may know, we’ve been using cloth napkins around here since 2007.  I’ve gone a little loopy over them from time to time (the evidence can be found here, if you need some convincing).  I have an everyday set, and three seasonal sets of 20-25 coordinating prints each, and I change them out in [...]

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Not swallowed up

I promise my messy kitchen didn’t swallow me up.  I spent enough time in there on Saturday to get half the job done and to help Flufy film part two of his apple pie series: the crust.  I still have the table to do, and there’s a section of countertop on the left that you [...]

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Urges of the domestic kind

Good morning!  After a week of being out-of-sorts for a variety of reasons, I am suddenly overcome with the desire to do something about this: And if I have any energy left after that is done, there is still half a bag of apple “seconds” I could have my way with… I’ve got three pie [...]

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Kitchen greenification

I’m doing pretty well so far with my new routines & task list.  One benefit of that?  I’m actually cleaning up the supper mess before leaving the kitchen in the evening.  And my counters are actually getting cleared off on a regular basis.  Did you think I always had a nice clean kitchen?  Oh, no, [...]

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Generation gap

I sometimes think about people from the past and wonder how they would react to the way the world is today.  How would an 1800′s farm girl feel about cruising down a busy highway with the top down?  What would a Revolutionary War era housewife think about the 200+ television channels she could be watching [...]

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