Text 8491, 76 rader
Skriven 2006-12-06 23:08:55 av Carol Shenkenberger (6:757/1)
   Kommentar till text 8457 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
Ärende: Re: Brit food 332
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*** Quoting Ruth Haffly from a message to Carol Shenkenberger ***


 CS> That can be interesting, yes.  The kitchen here is big and so is mine
 CS> at home in Virginia.

RH> I was wrong; (without measuring) the open floor space is about 4x6.  H
RH> to take some valuable space up with a trash can; the little one under
RH> the sink wasn't cutting it.  Got a nice stainless steel one with an ov
RH> foot print so it'll look pretty anyway.  I miss having a decent sized
RH> kitchen; I think the one we had in Berlin was the biggest but it had n
RH> dishwasher.

The one here is big.  The design is wrong to add a kitchen table in there but I
bet before the washing/dryer were there, that would have worked.


RH> lower cabinets all have a half shelf for the top one--bother! Upper
RH> cabinets aren't as big either and limited stwage in the utility room

 CS> I like the half height shelves for some of them as it allows me to
 CS> store the 'taller' items well.  My garage back home could use more

RH> I could see it on some of the cabinets but I don't want all of them th
RH> way!

Same here probably.  The design of the current place had few lower cabinets but
many upper ones and the lower part had lots of drawers.  Works out well enough
for me.

 CS> On the new stove, I would hate that thing fast.  Just not my style at
 CS> all.
RH> One of my beefs with it is that pans slide all over the place if you
RH> don't hold them down while stirring somethhing.  Making sure I don't p
RH> naything on the hot surface is another issue I've got to deal with. (G

Ugg.  I hate the sound of it already.  Can you have it traded out?  I guess not
or you wouldnt be trying to adapt.  The downside of military housing, you have
little choice at all on such things.


 CS> Yes, even here I have problems.  Mostly it's the microwave.  It's too
 CS> big to stow away when not in use so takes up much of my working space.

RH> We've never been able to put the microwave "away".  When we got our
RH> first one in 1984, we got a cart for it.  It's been used off and on fo

Well, as of yesterday, ours is loaned out for the next 3 weeks or so.  We wont
miss it much.  If it wasnt a gift, we'd never have had one probably and now
that we have, once it dies, we wont replace it.


RH> Make sure you put it in the "no pack, we'll take care of" area when yo
RH> pack out next year.  We mailed a bunch of stuff to us--baby crock pot
RH> should have been one of those but wasn't.  Next time!

Ah well, depends on where we go and if we can mail some stuff ahead.

 CS> That too!  What i could do without that you would probably think
 CS> strange, is the collander for straining pasta.  I barely use it.

RH> OTOH, I use mine regularly (regular strainer w/holes on the bottom
RH> only).  Steve could eat pasta 7 days a week; maybe 5 days/week for me.

I use mine for other things like straining the flotsam from a broth, but I have
other methods for that too.  Pasta hits us once a month maybe (discounting
things like udon).

RH> (G) Reminds me, I need to get meat thawed out for making meat balls
RH> later this week.

Ok!  Me, it's a bit of fish.  Gonna make fishballs with miso.
                                       xxcarol

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