Kitchen and Breakfast Room: Part 3

I started this little “after” tour here and here. So, onward.

First, let me reorient you within the kitchen:

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I’m going to be taking you around the bar area from inside the kitchen. First, under the sink:

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There’s not much there. Just normal under the kitchen sink stuff like trash bags, sponges, dishwasher detergent, dish soap, etc.

Okay, now turned completely around, you’re facing the refrigerator:

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In the lower cabinet on the bottom shelf there is one HUGE water jug. Stephen and the kids use it for outdoor activities in the summer. Because it’s freaking hot around here. On the top shelf live the lunch boxes for the kids. That’s it. Nothing else.

Now to the drawer right by the refrigerator:

This is where my purse usually lives on the counter. I need to put my baseball cap away (reserved for bad hair days).

This is where my purse usually lives on the counter. I need to put my baseball cap away.

One set of measuring spoons, one set of measuring cups, one little scooper thing (it was a gift and I don’t know the technical term) and 4 silpats. These are awesome for cookies or placing fruit on that you want to freeze before throwing in a container (easier to break them apart that way). Do I need 4? No. I could live with 2. Oh, and 1 star and 1 heart shaped cutter – the Girl likes it when I use them to cut out shapes in cheese for her lunch. It must be a girl thing because the Boy would kill me if I did that for his lunch.

Now the center section:

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Working from the left lower cabinet to the right: I have a steamer which I’m trying to decide whether I’m going to keep. We haven’t used it in a while. If I still haven’t used it by the end of the summer, I’ll probably donate it. Below the steamer is a big silver bowl I use to serve homemade popcorn. Inside it is a small silver bowl I need to return to my mother-in-law. The white basket holds tupperware containers and right above it are a few more containers and empty jars that we use for food storage.

Someone made a comment on a prior post asking me if the counters are always cleared and clean. I mentioned that I tried to clear them every night, but as you’ll see in the picture above, the Girl left some of her stuff there last night. This is where she does homework, so papers and books tend to accumulate there.

Back to the tour: In the picture above, skip over to the right side (the cabinet with upright slots) and that’s where 3 cookie sheets, 1 cutting board and 2 roasting pans live. I use them all. Except the roasting pans, but they came with the house and the ovens, so they stay there. I think I’ve mentioned it before, but I’m terrified of cooking a turkey, so I rarely use the roasting pans. I suppose I could roast my veggies in them, but I usually use the cookie sheets. Okay, I’ll shut up already.

On to the next picture (below). In the far right is a nearly empty cabinet, save a crockpot (that we use) and an empty juice container Stephen sometimes uses for filling the coffee maker.

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Now the drawers, again from left to right:

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This is our battery, small lightbulb and assorted junk drawer. I clean this out every month or so. Or when I can’t open or shut it. The Sharpies live here.

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Next over is the kid lunch container drawer and the silverware/servingware/knives drawer. Below the silverware drawer are the dish towel drawer, the foil/baggie/paper lunch sack drawer, and finally, an empty drawer at the bottom.

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And the last two drawers are the baking/serving/misc. things drawer and the ziploc with muffin papers/birthday candles, the food scale (which we used to weigh Izzy as a pup) and coffee filters. Also cheesecloth for when I get around to trying to make my own almond milk. Maybe when I hand over the blog to the next blogger? (Did you see what I did there?)

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Anyhoo, that’s everything in the kitchen. One more post on the Breakfast Room and we’re out of the kitchen area and onto the rest of the house.

Yay!


5 Responses to Kitchen and Breakfast Room: Part 3

  1. Wow, amazing, clean and organised and an empty drawer! Fantastic work, makes me feel like tackling some of my kitchen stuff!

  2. I have a heart cookie cutter that is big enough that when I use in on a sandwich, it is almost like cutting the crusts off. I don’t know if my Boy got teased about it and he never said but both kids got hearts sometimes in their lunch boxes.

  3. This looks fantastic and proves that the kitchen does not have to be HUGE to work well. Looks like we have the same size kitchen. If I could change a few cabinets to drawers and convert one to a baking pan cabinet, that would be nice. Guess I need to look at the DIY stuff!! Great job!

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