In the Kitchen

*snicker*

I’m on a spree, a tin-sign-hanging spree. I’ve decided to fill my kitchen walls with tin signs, usually referring to cooking, cleaning or wifely duties in general. This one just came in the mail yesterday. I love it!!!

HAHA!!!

I also got this one. We don’t drink Coca-Cola (or any soda, actually, except ginger ale when we’re sick), but I like the Victorian flair and the color. The color perfectly matches my red dining room. I’ve hung this on the wall in the kitchen that leads into the dining room, for a nice transition.

My favorite is this one:

I have tons more but I didn’t feel like taking photos. :-p But believe me, they are all very funny, even the rv repair one. HAHA!

Do you decorate your kitchen? What style do you like best? I guess mine could be considered “eclectic retro.” LOL

Recipe Station

Do you have an area in your kitchen that holds your recipes, papers, etc? I created a small nook in the kitchen–totally on the fly– and I’m going to be storing my recipes and such there. I’m pleasantly surprised at how well the area turned out.

It’s more of an “everything” station. I created it as an area to keep the phone (tucked away in the cabinet, and controlled by the computer). We have MagicJack phone service, so I need a computer nearby. And then I got the idea of using the computer also as a tool to look up recipes online, or watch weather video forecasts. Pretty neat!

I LOVE my kitchen. This beat-up old house is starting to look a lot better. It won’t ever be as beautiful like those luxurious Outer Banks foreclosures or anything, but it’s livable. And it’s mine.

Guess What We Had for Dinner?? SPAGHETTI!

Spaghetti may not sound like it’s such a special dinner… but we haven’t had ANY pasta meal in soooo long! Yahoo! My daughters put together an incredible pasta meal last week. The FIRST dish we cooked in the new kitchen was spaghetti!

And look! We even got to sit out in the DINING ROOM to eat it! Hurray, no more eating in the garage with the bats, mice, hornets, and flies! Yay!

We usually only serve water to drink with meals, but this being such a special occasion and all, we got Vitamin Water for the kids.

They seem convinced that it makes them stronger and healthier. I don’t know… does it? Will guzzling this stuff suddenly make you win sports trophies?? Me, I still like water with my dinner.

So we are BACK into the house, cooking, cleaning an eating. Ahhhhh… life is good.

Aprons and Things.. Outdated or Not?

My daughter likes to wear aprons. I was never much of an apron wearer, although I probably should wear them. I always make such a disaster in the kitchen (as I do with everything). I know some bloggers who actually MAKE aprons– the prettiest little things– and sell them online.

Is there really a market for aprons? I had no idea that anyone really wore them anymore.

In the 40s, 50s and 60s, you’d always see women on some TV show or in some magazine ad, wearing such pretty women’s dresses, and frilly aprons over them. I don’t know when this all changed– women’s “lib” perhaps?– but you never see women wearing aprons anymore.

Photo courtesy of The Retro Kitchen.

I got one for a wedding present, some 20 years ago, and never really wore it. My daughter discovered it, and she wears it. She seems to like them. I guess they are OK. I should wear one, I’m such a messy cook. But I never think of it.

What do you think? Do you wear an apron when you cook?

Spice-y

I created a spice drawer fir the new kitchen.

Like it? I love it!

I sometimes get a nagging thought about it, as if the space could be better used for something else besides holding plastic bottles that could stand on their own. But I REALLY like the spices in the drawer, it’s so convenient. And it’s SO luxurious, having just enough space to be able to tuck spices in a DRAWER of all things! If it was msm lotion, that’d be another matter… these are spices I use regularly while cooking.

I do like it, wasteful of space or no.

Where do you keep your spices?

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