While in the kitchen

• It's lonely cooking for one.


• My future home is going to have a full set of (matching) silverware, but about a billion extra teaspoons. Company's best when you've got good drinks to warm you from the inside too.


• Until my place becomes the party place, a dishwasher seems a luxury.


• I am too easily distracted from cooking when there's blogging I can do.


• Week-old leftovers are always still fair-game; expiry dates are only suggestions to get the stock moving.


• Coffee grinder and percolator are m.u.s.t.s.


• Kitchens must have a penisula if not an island.


• My kitchen will have stainless steel appliances.


• I like washing chopsticks when there's a whole wad of them; I like the sound they make when they rub together.


• With rubber gloves, I can wash with immeasurably hot water--mother would be proud.


• Kitchens are where the warmest things happen; meals, drinks, and conversation. It's where I come for a good dose of soul food--and I'm glad that others feel compelled to join me here too.