My Kitchen

So people have been bugging me to see pictures of my apartment so here's a quick tour of the kitchen at least.


I'll try to go counter-clockwise around the kitchen. Believe it or not this was one of the largest kitchens we saw while apartment hunting. The fact that the stove was not directly behind the sink was one of the biggest selling points for me. It's small enough that you're not running all over the place but big enough not to feel cramped. Unfortunately it is not at all suited to two people cooking at once so Sean and I often run into snags.



Here's the wonderful counter space and "coffee area". The window into the living room is nice and you can see my cookbook collection. We don't own a microwave so that toaster oven gets plenty of use.




I don't know why I wanted this close up on the sink except that I'd just finished doing dishes and so it had been my focus for a while. Note the great spice rack my Aunt Martha bought me when for Christmas a few years ago when I was living in an apartment in PA. Don't been fooled by the full bottles, I use this a -lot- and am constantly refilling the bottles. I've swapped some of the spices it came with out for ones I use more but it remains constant. I want to get a second set of small shelves for things like the tea ball and other of those little things that would get lost in a drawer but that will have to wait.

As you can see I have two cutting boards. The bamboo one in front is strictly vegi's and cooked meats, the plastic one behind it is raw meat on one side (you can see the label) and vegi on the other.



Here's the (annoyingly electric) stove. You can see my great timer/thermometer on top of the hood. It's totally the best $20 I've spent so far in kitchen gear. The glass dish sitting on the stove is full of kosher salt (my everyday cooking salt) and the grinder is for pepper (pre-ground pepper is disgusting!) The vegetable oil is only out because it doesn't fit in any of my cabinets . I use olive oil for most of my cooking when I bother to use oil at all. I have some great non-stick cookware which makes it all optional.





Here is my "pantry corner". The knife block was another thrift store find that has been a bit modified with a hack-saw to fit my knives well. It will be needing surgery again soon for those kitchen shears. The crock pot is currently making pot roast. The thing taped to the cabinet in the upper left hand corner is the recipe for whole wheat bread in the bread machine. I got tired of looking it up every night.



Finally here's a shot of the fridge with a bit of the kitchen bulletin board. It's the same board I've been toting around for years. My aunt gave it to me to help be scrap book when I was in high-school. Now it helps me keep track of all the little pieces of paper life seems to come equipped with these days. My fridge seems to be mainly for keeping the printouts of the different recipes I've tried. I've thrown far too many of them away and now I have to go looking for them again.