It is months since I have posted an In My Kitchen update. These are hosted by the fabulous Celia on Fig Jam and Lime Cordial. Jump over to take a peek in kitchens all around the world.
As months have gone by it is going to be a post about what’s been happening this Winter. It has been a cold one, with the heater going most days. So, in my kitchen this Winter has been clothes drying in the heat.
It has been too cold to work in my studio (aka The Playroom!). The little heater there just couldn’t combat the cold. So I decamped into the kitchen area, setting up a working table. More clutter in the room, but warm. 😉
There were more kitcheny things happening too.
After reading of a simmer plate in EllaDee’s blog I had to get one too. My stove is old and cranky, and doesn’t like to have very gentle heat. I am hoping that this simmer plate will help to stop food sticking when I am slow cooking.
I also bought a new drinking bottle from Aldi. I left my last one on Flinders Island and have been looking for a metal one ever since. Mine is the mint green one.
I have done some baking over Winter. Like these….the cake is a little one that I made for a friend who lives alone. We ate the other one! The recipe came from Kate, Tall tales from Chiconia. It uses apple sauce and hers had the most luscious looking fudge icing. I had to draw the line at that much sugar, but it was still delicious. The choc chip biscuits were soon eaten by the Fella and me!
And there was some serious food in my kitchen too! The sweet potatoes were ones that I grew. So easy to grow.
Lastly, a recipe I made up for a quick, easy and tasty one-pot-dish.
Salute some onions or leeks and garlic. Add in sliced potatoes and any other veggie that you like. You can see that I have added sweet potato, celery, including the tops and peas. I added them towards the end. Then I mixed up a miso soup paste with hot water and added that to the mix. You will then need to adjust the amount of liquid so that the veggies can boil.
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19 replies on “In My Kitchen”
What a lovely big kitchen you have! And lots of light streaming in from those big windows. I’m so glad you’re enjoying that cake, it’s really simple and tasty, isn’t it?
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It is a lovely room. I am finding the light really good for painting. I may move there permanently! The cake was very yummy and some day I may venture to make the icing. 😉
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Try using a quarter or half of the ingredients and making the icing a very thin skim on the top? Then you get the toffee flavour without the massive sugar hit.
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What a good idea!
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Kitchens are great for multi-tasking. It’s grey, cool and miserable looking outside but in our Sunday afternoon kitchen the oven is on and it’s cosy. We dry clothes in here -over chairs- and the ‘laundry’ is simply in another kitchen cupboard.
We rarely go far without our SS drink bottles or insulated coffee mugs. Saves us a fortune.
I hope you had the success I did with the simmer mat. Great for one pot dishes that need a gentle touch. Certainly your baking & cooking efforts look wonderful. Miso veges – yum 🙂
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Too many grey days this winter. It is predicted to be 20 degrees this weekend and that will be glorious! Thanks for the lead on the simmer mat. It will be getting a workout over the next few days as I am going to start cooking casseroles to take away with us.
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Everything looks wonderful! Those chocolate chip cookies (that’s what we call them in our crazy American moon language 😉 ) look amaaaaaazing. 😀 I’m glad your kitchen is bringing you such happiness and yumminess!
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Yummy happiness? Certainly. It is a room that I love.
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Peeking inside your kitchen is like peeking inside your life. I imagine it to be warm and cosy with the spicy scent of cinnamon in the air. 🙂
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With a lot of mess and clutter!
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-grin- The only non messy kitchen I’ve ever seen is one that was never used!
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i love the way you salute the onions:) the choc chip biscuits look great. looks so snug in your kitchen.
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Don’t all onions need to be saluted before they are sautéed?!! Good pick up, thank you! The kitchen has been very snug, but it remains reasonably cool in Summer.
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Lovely kitchen, looking on to your patio!
The biscuits look yummy.
Thanks for sharing
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The biscuits were yummy. They didn’t last very long! Thanks for dropping by.
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I need a simmer mat too, and had a look at the link on EllaDee’s page. It looks like a sturdy model. That last llitle vegetable dish is a winner- with the miso soup added for a flavour base.
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I picked my simmer mat up from the London American Store. Is that what it is called? The kitchen place near the Vic Market. Probably widely available in those sorts of places. I am going to use it quite a bit of the next few days as I am cooking for our next trip in the caravan. I love to use miso paste as it adds a different flavour to the usual stocks.
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Love that simmer mat – am going to have to check it out – what a clever idea.
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You have to love something so simple but well designed. I would think that most larger homewares places have them, and online too of course. Thanks for dropping by and having a peek in my kitchen.
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