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That kitchen meme
Sep. 27th, 2012 05:04 pmI wasn't going to do this, but hey. It's an opportunity to consider my batterie de cuisine, if nothing else. Point out the shocking gaps.
Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of. [Chaz'z addendum: the ones in (plain brackets) are what I had and used but left a little reluctantly behind me in the UK; [square brackets] indicate what I hope is coming in my shipping.]
"I wonder how many [pasta machines], breadmakers,juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese boards, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, [filleting knives], egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders, milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, (tagine dishes), [conical strainers], rice cookers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers (bains marie), sukiyaki stoves, ice cream makers, [fondue sets], healthy-grills, home smokers, tempura sets, tortilla presses, electric whisks, cherry stoners, sugar thermometers, food processors, bacon presses, bacon slicers, mouli mills, cake testers, [pestle-and-mortars], and sets of kebab skewers languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards."
Huh. I don't actually get rid ofmuch anything, apparently. Except for leaving stuff behind as I emigrate, which I think is a different issue. Also, I needed another refinement to the original, to be able to mark things stuff-that-Karen-had-that-I-use-on-her-behalf, or some such complicated category (the healthy grill, largely: every now and then she wants an unhealthy grilled cheese sandwich). Most of what I don't have is stuff I've never wanted - which only means there's a hell of a lot of other stuff that could have been on that list, for the list of my wants is long.
Today, food is largely red and green. Karen wasn't feeling too bright at lunchtime, so I made her tomato soup, which is a cure-all: roasted tomatoes (from our garden, of course yes) with rosemary and garlic, whizzed up with beef stock and enriched to personal taste with pesto and parmesan and cream and bacon croutons. My wife approves this message, to the point of asking - unprecedentedly - if there's enough for dinner too. Which there is, with pasta to follow: again with the choose-your-own-additives out of bacon and tomato and pesto and parmesan and asparagus tips and an asparagus sauce. Very green.
Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don't use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of. [Chaz'z addendum: the ones in (plain brackets) are what I had and used but left a little reluctantly behind me in the UK; [square brackets] indicate what I hope is coming in my shipping.]
"I wonder how many [pasta machines], breadmakers,juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese boards, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, [filleting knives], egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders, milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, (tagine dishes), [conical strainers], rice cookers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers (bains marie), sukiyaki stoves, ice cream makers, [fondue sets], healthy-grills, home smokers, tempura sets, tortilla presses, electric whisks, cherry stoners, sugar thermometers, food processors, bacon presses, bacon slicers, mouli mills, cake testers, [pestle-and-mortars], and sets of kebab skewers languish dustily at the back of the nation's cupboards."
Huh. I don't actually get rid of
Today, food is largely red and green. Karen wasn't feeling too bright at lunchtime, so I made her tomato soup, which is a cure-all: roasted tomatoes (from our garden, of course yes) with rosemary and garlic, whizzed up with beef stock and enriched to personal taste with pesto and parmesan and cream and bacon croutons. My wife approves this message, to the point of asking - unprecedentedly - if there's enough for dinner too. Which there is, with pasta to follow: again with the choose-your-own-additives out of bacon and tomato and pesto and parmesan and asparagus tips and an asparagus sauce. Very green.