My kitchen — Food

~terry Mon, Nov 4, 1996 (07:48) seed

What is your kitchen like now (we'll talk about dream kitchens in a future topic)? What do you like and not like about your kitchen? How is it laid out? Are you happy with your kitchen? Describe it to us please.

~KitchenManager Thu, Nov 7, 1996 (21:31) #1

Would ya'll rather hear about my kitchen at home or work? I'll take votes here or by e-mail. WER

~terry Fri, Nov 8, 1996 (08:01) #2

Tossup. Both.

~KitchenManager Wed, Nov 20, 1996 (13:12) #3

Well, let's see. My kitchen at home is kind of piece meal, being converted from the former kitchen and part of the garage. We do have twenty linear feet of shelves for cookbooks which, unfortunately, is not enough. The color scheme is white and gray. More soon.

~smckern Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (20:56) #4

My kitchen is more a kitchenettw, with heaps of add-ins as I learn a new cuisine... the electronic wok, a coffee maker, grill... I lack a dishwasher but that's where the boyfriend earns the food he eats!!!

~Donna Tue, Nov 26, 1996 (21:53) #5

Very small kitchen just fits the five of us. I pull the table in and out to seat the children. Only have room for a 18inch dishwasher,{would not be without it} very little counterspace of which my very large micro,toasteroven, food processor, stove in between takes up. One good thing I don't have to spend hours mopping the floor. It was very nice to hear from you Stephanie.

~stacey Tue, Sep 23, 1997 (12:14) #6

The kitchen in the new abode is pretty durn tiny. Copper tile on the walls and copper knobs. Hmmm... goes real well with all my stainless steel.

~terry Wed, Sep 24, 1997 (07:47) #7

Tell us more about your new abode and your kitchen, how is it laid out?

~stacey Wed, Sep 24, 1997 (09:26) #8

1930s Art Deco, hacienda style home with arched walkways, hardwood floors and HUGE windows. Actually the kitchen is pretty much the low point -- functional but not luxurious. We do have a kitchen in the basement as well -- formerly used for canning! Odd setup but lots of character!

~terry Wed, Sep 24, 1997 (19:27) #9

That's cool, a kitchen in the basement. That's cool that you have a basement at all, almost unheard of around Austin. Are there a lot of basements in your new neck of the woods?

~stacey Thu, Sep 25, 1997 (09:27) #10

yup. The majority of the homes have basements. And DYK, basements Do NOT count in the square footage of a home! So our minimal sounding 1600 sf is really twoce the size when you count the basement room!

~terry Thu, Sep 25, 1997 (18:54) #11

Wow, that's great. What else do you use that basement for?

~stacey Fri, Sep 26, 1997 (09:12) #12

Can't tell you that... Just teasing! Brandon paints down there, laundry room, ironing room, storage...

~stacey Fri, Oct 24, 1997 (12:37) #13

Best place I could think to post this... outside my kitchen window... I see snow! Yep, big, fat, fluffy wet flakes of sheer delight! Snow on my pumpkins that will hopefully turn into jack o lanterns tonight. Then I'll have plenty of pumpkin guts to start cooking with!! Gotta love roasted pumpkin seeds, pumpkin bread, pumpkin spice cake, baked pumpkin with butter and brown sugar...

~KitchenManager Sat, Oct 25, 1997 (00:14) #14

Damn you, girl, damn you! WER

~terry Sat, Oct 25, 1997 (09:03) #15

That does sound overly idyllic.

~stacey Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (09:38) #16

Shit... was I wrong. We got twenty-three inches of snow in under 36 hours. The blizzard of 1997 according to the powers that be. Completely snowed in on Saturday, so we split a case of beer with the neighbor and then went sledding! My kitchen is the warmest place in the house... after I roasted the pumpkin seeds (and we ate them all) I made cookies, I made pasta and I made a mess. The oven really warmed up the house though.

~terry Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (10:44) #17

Wow, I've seen the pictures of cars strewn about the Denver highways. You got hit big time.

~stacey Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (12:02) #18

yup. careful what you wish for...

~KitchenManager Mon, Oct 27, 1997 (22:57) #19

..........Can I get an Amen? WER

~stacey Tue, Oct 28, 1997 (08:46) #20

AMEN.

~katrina Fri, Nov 28, 1997 (12:00) #21

Amen.

~autumn Mon, Jan 19, 1998 (23:07) #22

My kitchen is the size of a submarine galley, no kidding. I can open the fridge, oven, and dishwasher without taking a step. And by the way, basement kitchens are not real uncommon here in the East--they're usually for keeping kosher.

~stacey Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (18:20) #23

I too can open the refrigerator, stove and dishwasher from the same position, trouble is, the dishwasher doesn't have room to open if the refrigerator is open.

~terry Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (18:50) #24

Wow, I though I had a small kitchen.

~autumn Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (20:26) #25

We must have the same floor plan! My dishwasher & fridge can't be opened simultaneously either, and my fridge is even a side-by-side.

~Wolf Tue, Jan 20, 1998 (21:14) #26

You do have a small kitchen, Autumn!!! OK, mine is in the works of refacing and really looks like crap. Bob Vila would have a field day embarrassing me on tv. It's a galley, just twist around and you're either at the stove or sink. No counterspace. Can't open the fridge and dishwasher. Can't open the fridge and expect to get out of the kitchen either! The side with the stove has a new countertop (plus the new stove), new wallpaper, but old cabinets. Other side has painted cabinets (which have to be redone) and the old one piece glue down up the wall wood veneer counter- top/backsplash. No wallpaper there. Oh, and my new kitchen sink has been sitting in my bedroom for 3 years!! No basements here in Louisiana. You'd have to fight the alligators for the bogs!!

~stacey Thu, Jan 22, 1998 (16:42) #27

Yum! Louisiana and kitchens... make me thing of good food!

~KitchenManager Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (08:27) #28

What kind of thing you want?

~stacey Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (09:11) #29

*giigle* oops!

~KitchenManager Fri, Jan 23, 1998 (09:28) #30

Why don't I believe that oops!?

~stacey Mon, Jan 26, 1998 (09:35) #31

*smirk*

~KitchenManager Wed, Feb 18, 1998 (23:56) #32

~KitchenManager Wed, Feb 18, 1998 (23:57) #33

If'n you could only change one thing about your kitchen, what would it be?

~terry Thu, Feb 19, 1998 (01:37) #34

Add a solarium dining room and convert the present dining room to dry goods storage and second fridge.

~KitchenManager Thu, Feb 19, 1998 (12:13) #35

Want to entertain the masses, huh?

~Wolf Thu, Feb 19, 1998 (16:05) #36

everything. (hey! only named one thing!!) Wer, I think you'd like this--my new kitchen sink is still a sculpture in my bedroom. Oh, I would like to actually have a dining room!

~KitchenManager Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (09:56) #37

just expand on that dining in the bedroom motif...

~Wolf Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (11:24) #38

not gonna go there, wer *grin*

~KitchenManager Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (14:07) #39

but you want to, I can tell... does anybody make a combination slip/apron/bib?

~Wolf Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (14:16) #40

just eat naked, don't hafta worry about it then *hehheh*

~KitchenManager Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (14:22) #41

*blush* (told you you wanted to go there...)

~Wolf Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (14:29) #42

that would be an interesting article of clothing to be had, for sure :)

~KitchenManager Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (16:38) #43

probably, so would be whoever was wearing it...

~Wolf Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (21:25) #44

suppose it would be easy to whip one up, can't guarantee you'd be on the runways for the spring/summer season, but who knows! look at the junk they parade there now!!

~KitchenManager Fri, Feb 20, 1998 (22:49) #45

how true...

~riette Thu, May 28, 1998 (13:03) #46

Swiss kitchens stink! They're all the size of a loo, but with fewer luxuries . . .

~jgross5 Thu, May 28, 1998 (14:40) #47

how true...

~riette Thu, May 28, 1998 (14:43) #48

How do you know?!?!

~jgross5 Thu, May 28, 1998 (14:50) #49

Bern is my hometown. I learned how to build loos and kitchens there. I miss it so. Maybe tomorrow I'll go back there and bring along a longhorn steer. I'm quite the vagabond, y'know, but would that be a bum steer?

~riette Thu, May 28, 1998 (14:56) #50

You've lost me. You're not really from Bern, are you?! Because I couldn't bear the thought of having ranted on about the Swiss while sitting on his lap on a bouncing couch! Oh God, I'm so sorry, Jim!

~jgross5 Thu, May 28, 1998 (16:03) #51

I shouldn't have said that. Because there was a second hometown I had. Tsumeb. I'll give ya the big lowdown on it, if you have time. See, okay, this is different, but I'm just so used to it cuz it happened to me. My parents were arms smugglers. They sold prostheses on the black market for an artificial limb company. And well, not that I wanted this or had any say in the matter, but mom & dad would go back and forth between Bern and Tsumeb just all the time. From the age of like 0 to 13, I probably didn't stay in either city for more than 3 weeks at a time, going back & forth, back & forth, back & forth, back & forth, back & forth, back & forth, you get the idea. It happened a lot. I really want, Riette, for you to see Namibia some day. You'd fall in love with it, especially out in the country. My parents would let me roam by myself for days in Etosha National Park. That sure beat Bern all to hell. I wish we could talk sometime.

~riette Thu, May 28, 1998 (17:18) #52

Oh, you are infuriating!! I was actually worried all evening that I might have offended you - I mean, with your name being Gross and everything! I won't go see Namibia with you now, even if you payed me in sexual favours! And anyway, I'm not sure I'd like Namibia at all. It sounds like the arse of the world . . . is it a town somewhere in Texas? What does it look like there? Come, lure me your way . . .

~KitchenManager Wed, Jun 3, 1998 (14:40) #53

aww, Riette, don't you know Texas is just a state of mind?

~stacey Wed, Jun 3, 1998 (15:09) #54

yeeeeee haaaaaw!

~riette Wed, Jun 3, 1998 (16:12) #55

The more I see of Jim the more sense that statement makes.

~terry Wed, Sep 23, 1998 (13:15) #56

I am actually in the process of building a new kitchen in the cottage in Cedar Creek, now that Mahalene's onboard and wants to live there someday, I'm sure she'll have some suggestions.

~MarciaH Thu, Nov 25, 1999 (19:17) #57

I'd like to know more about a "work" kitchen mentioned in Response 1 Please.