Here's a 'modern' kitchen for us to examine for the start of the week...
I am not at all sure of the placement of that curved counter there in the kitchen. It seems odd somehow to me but then I noted those little fold up stools on the side and realized it was meant as a breakfast counter. I think sitting on those stools would be pretty awkward, don't you?
I've shared this pink kitchen before. I think perhaps this is an all metal kitchen and each piece was separate standing. Let's talk first about the fact that the top cabinets are white and the pink ones are all on the bottom. Here's a modern day trend of two toned kitchens from back in the 1950's...Again, proving that there is nothing new under the sun.
Do come in and join me. It's cool enough today to warrant a cup of hot coffee and there are warm Banana Chocolate Chip muffins to go with our hot drink. Have a seat, won't you, and stay for a chat? It shall be a totally random sort of chat, the way all good talks between friends so often are.
I have been saying steadfastly for the past few years now that I am embracing all seasons and finding things to love in them all and I am...but my heart has remained just as steadfast in loving Autumn best of all and never more so than now when I am in what might well be determined to be the autumn years of my life.
"Let us be in a position so we are able to not only feed ourselves through the home production and storage, but others as well." (President Ezra Taft Benson)
Saturday: I didn't do much gathering today but I did pull the last two potatoes to use in our dinner, as well as the last two apples. I roasted a chicken with onions, carrots, potato chunks and apple quarters. Apple is really nice with chicken. I just wish I'd had some cider to baste the bird with...And by the way, you could also roast sausages with the same vegetables and apples and it would be lovely. Pork sausages, Chicken and Apple sausages, or Kielbasas. All would be lovely together.
When I was a young and romantic pre-teen, I loved reading those junior romance novels, like Fifteen by Beverly Cleary and oh gracious, I can't think who all else. There were loads of juvenile fiction authors I read back then. But I was always curious about what an orchid looked like. Every girl who ever went to prom or a Homecoming dance in those novels were given orchid corsages by their best beaux. I was a full grown adult before I saw my first orchid. I had always heard how difficult they were to grow.
I'd say this kitchen is likely from the 1920's based on the freestanding cabinet next to the stove. And while it' s just a glimpse of a corner of a kitchen really there's a lot to see in this photo. The wide tiles used to cover the walls, including that tile border, means the kitchen could easily be wiped down and kept sanitary. The plaid tile floor is rather trendy, too. Note the dishtowel rack underneath the window, handy to dry damp cloths or to have clean dry cloths to use to hold hot pans or pot handles.
Note there's a baking center and storage for bulk potatoes, apples and 'fruits', cans, utensils, etc.
If you enlarge the photo you can see the details a bit better. The sink is a single sink with a drainboard built in and inset into the black counter top. And there's a pull out cutting board there above the drawers.
Saturday: Pulled a container of what appeared to be only a little chocolate chip cookie dough from the freezer yesterday and baked cookies in the toaster oven. There was more than I'd realized; I made 18 cookies.
Monday: I went over the fridge today and was happy to find I was on top of things. However, I noted that I had a small pint jar of refrigerator pickles (about 1 cup in the jar) that we really should eat, as it was part of the first batch I made earlier in the summer. I put those on the table with our lunch today and we emptied the jar. I did reserve the pickle brine, which would NOT be suitable to put into any meat since it's sweet, but could be used for a future batch of pickles. Not that I plan to make any real soon...we still have a quart jar of them in the fridge!
What I find interesting in this kitchen is the corner work station. It appears there's a wagon or something stored under there but it could also be a baking center or sewing area or desk. The dropped counter in the near left on the sink wall...Not sure about the purpose of that. I lived in a house that had a dropped counter like that at one side of the kitchen and I never did understand what it was for.
Friday: A brand new start to another week of gathering fragments. I gave two items to the chickens today: 1 cup of grits, half a loaf of homemade bread that was old. I had plans to use both but just never got to them and I figured it was best to not waste entirely and let it do good to the egg production at the other house.
Hello everyone! Come on in and have a refreshing glass of iced tea. We'll just take it indoors. It's not terribly hot outdoors today but John's mower is kicking up plenty of dust. We've had nothing but little pass over showers here and there of late. Not enough rain to amount to anything.
Have some of the cake, won't you? It's called "Old Lady Cake" and I found the recipe last week when I was looking for recipes to use up soured milk. I'd told Rhonda I'd share the recipe, so let me go right ahead and do that now. I'm not very good at remembering things because I have so much on my mind at once. That's my excuse...