A couple of random kitchen shots this week . . .
When I make my collard salads, I put just a little bit of maple syrup in the dressing. The collards can use the sweetness. Last time I was preparing the collards, there was just a tiny bit of maple syrup in the syrup pourer*, so I just took off the top and was very pleased to find that the upended pourer fit perfectly in the salad dressing jar to drain out.
Drip drip.
The quantities of food I purchase these days come in very large containers. These would be awkward to cook with regularly, so I spend a lot of time decanting from giant containers into more-manageable ones. As I did with the molasses I got this week.
Between gingersnaps and homemade barbecue sauce, I go through more molasses than your average person.
I took a picture of my cart of groceries this week, just because there weren't very many--I'm anticipating a much bigger stock-up trip to Walmart soon--and I was betting with myself that it would still be more than a hundred dollars.
It was, but mostly because I bought alcohol. Without that, it would have been ninety dollars.
This was right next to the front door of the fancy hotel I stayed in last week.
Correctly identified by the son with me as the Virgin of Guadalupe. That's Juan Diego kneeling.
Having something like that outside a random hotel is so New Mexico.
I purchased a new toilet this week to replace the one in the adults' bathroom. The box was one of the more intriguing things I've seen in awhile.
There's a lot going on here.
The scatalogical motto I can see, but why did a toilet maker name their company after a Roman statesman? Then I looked it up and discovered that Cato is said to have met with an Egyptian king while on the toilet, to convey disrespect. Oooookay.
We don't yet know what a "destroyer flush" is, but I guess we'll see when A. installs the toilet.
And last, flowers!
I used apricot branches in this week's altar arrangement. I felt like the background needed to be darker and more solid to show up better on the altar.
It looks better from farther away, so I think it will work.
There you have it! My life, snapshotted.
* I actually bought one of these maple syrup dispensers like they have at diners. We use maple syrup a lot, and these really are the best and least-messy way to pour it.
4 comments:
Good call on the syrup dispenser! We just put syrup into a small bottle from some syrup in the past, but we don't use it too often. My kids mostly prefer powdered sugar or whipped cream on waffles/French toast. We do have a shaker ( a repurposed salt shaker) for cinnamon sugar, though. Cinnamon toast most mornings, and good for apple slices at dinner time.
I'm not sure what all is in the cart, but I believe $90, unfortunately! When I do a mid week shop to get things I'd forgotten or replenish milk/bananas, it used to be $30-$40. ( I tend to forget a lot when shopping, even with a list.) Now it's usually $70+. Sigh.
Lovely flowers!
I put maple syrup in a catsup bottle. Not a repurposed bottle catsup came in, but the old-fashioned red plastic bottle with a pointy tip. That works great with no mess. If you remember, the set also came with a yellow one for mustard. M from Florida.
I bought two boxes of seltzer and two bags of chocolate chips, both of which accounted for almost a quarter of that total.
After working in a restaurant in college, I learned that if there's a way that professionals do something, there's probably a good reason for it. Of course you get odd situations like knives, where chefs will spend a week's salary on a good one while chain restaurants will buy them for $5 each, but buy them by the case and toss them when they're dull.
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