Kitchens are magical places.
In my kitchen I turn milk into cheese and yoghurt, flour into bread and pasta and water from the tap into tea, coffee or soup.
My kitchen is where the veggies grown in my garden become yummy meals or are preserved for another time of the year.
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| Curds and whey.... from milk, I make cheese |
Delicious sweet treats, gifts made with love, soap, cleaning products, herbal remedies, beer and cider are all made from basic ingredients in my kitchen.
Even before I cooked everything from scratch, my kitchen made a mean vegemite on toast and a cup of tea.
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| Tortillas + kids = crazy gnomes in a family kitchen. |
But the magic doesn't stop there, kitchens are also places where family magic happens. It's the place we come together around the table and plan, console, laugh, cry and grow as a family. When we first moved here, my kitchen was the home of two high chairs, where our baby boys would eat (throw, mash) their first tastes of a range of foods. I've stood in our kitchen and chatted to countless friends and family members and have wonderful memories of them all. And these days, since our kitchen renovation, my kitchen is filled with so much of us - benches, cupboards, curtains, rugs and shelves that we made with our own hands.
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| Delicious food and warm memories are made in our kitchen |
Everything about our kitchen is magic, and now, our magic kitchen has a cauldron. A vessel that I throw ingredients into (following instructions in a book or making it up as I go) and, like magic, they turn into terrific meals! I feel like Mrs Weasley as I walk away to deal with animals/kids/a husband who had a bad day at work while my thermomix chops, sautés and stirs my food. It's still cooking from scratch, but with so much more power!
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| Molly has settled in very nicely.... |
I've had the thermomix for less than a week, and already I've used it for so much, making at least two recipes (or part recipes) in it each day. Many of them I could make without the thermomix, but some that I couldn't - freshly milled flour from whole wheat or rice, icing sugar and mayonnaise (I know, lots of people make mayo without a thermomix, but I've tried about 6 times and failed). But everything is easier with it.
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| The first meal I cooked using the thermomix - Delicious, slightly spiced lentil burgers served in fresh bread rolls made with 50% freshly ground soaked/sprouted wheat with fresh salad from the garden - YUM! |
So as a tribute to the magic of kitchens, and that brilliant mother and witch, Mrs Weasley, I'm naming my little magic cauldron, Molly.
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| Molly Weasley - a bit of magic in the kitchen! |
LOL Oh I am so glad you name inanimate objects - we do in our house too....otherwise who are you meant to cajole or abuse when things aren't travelling smoothly? :) So you can grind stuff with that gizmo too ey? I've been thinking about getting a multi-tool for the kitchen, I may have to look them up!
ReplyDeleteYes, we do.... The dishwasher is Harry (Bosch or Potter depending on who you talk to) and lots of our tools have names, the most popular being Neville the level.
ReplyDeleteThe gadget is pretty amazing, but it'd want to be at a cool $2K. I justified it because my food processor and bread maker, which were both second hand and used a LOT were both on their last legs (superglue only hold things together so long), and I really wanted to get a grinder. So that's at least 3 machines it replaced for me, and I'm doing so much with it that I couldn't have done even with those. Worth it for us, but I don't recommend them for everyone, I really think it is a case of looking at what you cook/want to cook and deciding if it would be that valuable for you. A friend of mine has the cheaper copy model (Bellini) and loves it, but I've had enough of 'cheaper' models and we got a decent tax return, so I went for it.