Yes, I know it isn’ Thursday. But guess what? I happen to have little Tuesday posts planned for the next month or so. So there!
Today’s post is just a picture that I think aptly captures what it is like to cook in my little kitchen. As someone once exclaimed, “you bake all that stuff here?” Yes, yes I do.
Let me set the scene for you. It’s about noon on a Saturday and I’ve got several projects going. There are cupcakes in the oven and a batch of lime curd on the stove. In this photo, all that is literally, behind me. In the part that you see, I’m in the middle of mixing up a coconut cake. Over time, I have learned that my photos come out much better when I drag the heavy equipment to the kitchen table and throw open the shutters. So, that’s what I do.
I’d like to point out three, well, four, other things in the background.
First (and second), are the kitchen gods: Balu and Petting Zoo. Both are serious hunters of the sunny-spot. On the rare times I’m home all day I know that to find both is to look for the sunny spots in the house; often odd little nooks and crannies that really aren’t fit to host 20 collective pounds of cat.
Third and right next to the kitchen’s patron saints are the IPod speakers. For me, cooking and music are necessary partners and I often (try to) match-up the music with the recipe. At the time this picture was taken I was listening to a little Stevie Wonder (this was in honor of the cake I was making, but that’s a story for a different post). I point out the speakers only to to highlight the proximity of Petting Zoo to them. Despite the music, the sound of the mixer and the hum of the exhaust hood, she was fast asleep in a sun coma.
Finally, below the beasts and beats live the cookbooks. Lots of them. In general, we are a “book” household. Despite a Kindle, an array of digital reader apps on our collective phones and a healthy relationship with the local library, TD and I still manage to collect (and read) lots of books. I like that about us.
Happy Tuesday!