In My Kitchen - October 2022

Aaarrgghhhh!  October already!  I blinked and the year has sped by like a rocket.  This year has certainly had its challenges, and perhaps like many others, I feel uncertain and somewhat ill at ease.  We seem to be weathering many a literal and metaphorical storm.  But let's harken to that meme/thingy: "Keep calm and get your October on."  Okay, I'll try to do that, my friends.  

Anyway, let's jump into our kitchens (literally if you like), and find out what happened during the previous month.  There was lots of baking for me, and reading, and pondering the world.  I still can't believe the orange-haired ex-POTUS is not languishing in a prison cell somewhere, that a dear friend of forty years has passed away, that I've lost a bit more weight even though indulging in winter comfort food, that life is just ... a bit edgy these days.  Hope you all are coping with the weird world we're in at the moment.  But here we are - in my kitchen ...

In My Kitchen:

handmade glass Viking Birka cup from Grimfrost in Sweden

the makings of pickled cukes and radish

Whale rice bowls by Minoru from the Shokunin Store

a cute resin spoon from ... where?

coastal honey and a lovely little bowl

sea salt from the Arctic

strawbs in season so I sliced and froze 'em for porridge and smoothies

there was lime cordial made

I bought some New Zealand pure lime juice just 'cos, so I made it up into lime cordial with a sugar syrup, and topped up with sparkling water.  Very refreshing!

and a painting gifted to me by a friend

This is by Peter Logan, a local Brisbane artist.  Our friend Ms. ML baby-sat him many years ago!  I think this is a portrait of his brother.  Now hanging downstairs in the guest bedroom due to severe lack of wall-space upstairs :=)

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Tell us about your kitchen (and kitchen garden) happenings over the past month.  Dishes you've cooked, preserves you've made, herbs and veg. in your garden, kitchen gadgets, and goings-on.  And a curveball is welcome - whatever you fancy; no need to be kitchen-related.  

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Not Quite Nigella 

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