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Time for tea.

Thursday, 15 May 2008

Gather around the kitchen table


Took some items to the local Salvation Army store today, while I was there I saw a perfect table to use as my sewing table, it was wooden and had a single drawer in the side. Much smaller than my old ugly table, there were 2 of them and I chose the best one. Had it tied to the top of my car and handed over $10 for it. Got it home, Dad and I carried it into my dining room. I took a look in my sewing room and thought that I might be able to get 2 of them in so went back to the store and paid another $10.

The only place the second one wouldn't be in the way was to put it in the middle of the kitchen floor, when I saw it in place I decided that is where it will stay. I've always wanted a kitchen table, had told David recently and he said that at the moment there was no way we could afford one. HEH HEH, at the time I knew I would prove him wrong.
This afternoon after school, my son and I sat at it with buns and fruit, enjoying a snack and having a laugh together, the sort of things that memories are made of.
I sneakily took off the $10 price tags leaving the original $25 tag on and when David got home I showed him my great buy. He thought it a great buy and then I told him I bought 2, he said he hoped that I got a discount for buying in "bulk". He was shocked when I told him how much I paid. I got him to put wheels on the kitchen one right away. I'm going to put a child lock on the drawer and use it to store my knives, to get them out of my cutlery drawers.

I wrote that on Thursday and it's now Saturday evening, I just had my first baking session on the table, made Cheesy Basil Damper. I got the recipe out of a new kids cookbook I bought, but I didn't have some of the ingredients so decided to wing it. For one thing I didn't have buttermilk so made my own using made up powdered milk with 1 tablespoon lemon juice per cup of milk. Leave for 10 to 15 minutes before using. The recipe also called for basil pesto, I had a tube of prepared basil which worked well.
It's now Wednesday, I hadn't gotten around to posting this yet.
Last night we were teaching the girls at Girls' Brigade to cook using fresh and packaged ingredients. I was in charge of the fresh so chose corn on the cob and Chicken Burritos from the Woman's Weekly Kids_Cooking_for_Health cookbook I got it for under $23 from Big W. They were a hit apart from one girl who didn't like it much (can't please everybody) but at least she ate it all.
The book has some wonderful recipes in it and I recommend it to anyone. I really like kid's cookbooks as the recipes aren't complicated and are really good for anyone wanting to learn how to cook. I tell my friends who are just starting out to try them. I know this one will get some good use here.
And an update on the table, David mentioned that I would soon be sick of having to go around it all the time - duh that's why I wanted wheels on it. It's been getting a lot of use, our kitchen is quite wide with a lot of space between the bench and stove, the table is with in easy reach of the stove. No longer will I have to run a hot dish across the room yelling "hot, hot, hot!" in an effort to get people out of my way. All of my cooking preparations have been made on it, the groceries get put on it for easy reach of putting away in the pantry and fridge. And if it is in the way it just gets wheeled away.

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