In My Kitchen - August 2024

Here I was thinking August 1st was ... weeks away, but no, it is now!  What the?!  So anyway, time for another In My Kitchen already.  A fair bit has been happening in my kitchen lately - food gifts, pickling, baking and so on.  The kitchen is my happy place I have to say.  I bet it's yours too.  And I even like a lovely kitchen when travelling - see below :=)

here's the kitchen in the Potter's Shed where we stayed on our roadtrip

This kitchen was a bit quirky I have to say.  It looked fabulous and had wonderful vintage appliances like an old Kookaburra gas stove (not actually plumbed (?) in), but was a bit ...mm ... useless.  Witness the cute fridge that only held a sandwich, so to speak.  But cute!  Well, sorry, it's not even in the photo - hehehe.  And the tall water filter on the left (with a sign saying 'make sure you leave it filled when you go') - if I were the height of a basketball player, maybe.

But on to my kitchen shenanigans over the last month!

In My Kitchen:

and up first - my curveball! another amazing sculpture-cum-vase (cum mug?)
from our mate Nat of Austin Flowers

a lovely gift hamper from overnight (well, 6 nights!) guests

dried apricots from a South Australian farm, and flowers from a dinner guest

I accidentally bought 400g. of dried red chillies!

that hot sauce is ... hot!

cute little ceramics from our guests

still not quite sure how this works :=)

and I put up some pickled cukes!

I made strawberry muffins for the fundraiser

Four houses in our suburb burned down to the ground a few weeks ago.  A heartbreaking accident.  A fundraiser was organised, with a bake sale, so I baked some muffins for it!  Such a tragedy, but at least no-one was killed.

handmade spoons by our mate Chainsaw Newton!

The one on the left is made from a cricket willow bat, and the other is local red cedar.  See how he has kept the shape of a cricket bat - sort of.  I love them!

I made preserved lemons with lemons from our friends' garden

Our Tassie friends from Hobart came up recently bearing organic lemons from their tree.  So I put them up with rock salt, mountain pepperberries, bay leaves and mustard seeds.  They went pink!

another gift from our Tassie mates

and I made chicken soup for us and for our neighbour

Well, I could go on but I'd better stop now :=)  Join us s'il vous plaît.

c. Sherry M.

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