NYKate's Profile

While I don't have too much of a problem in my kitchen (because we ripped it out to the studs and redid it), I really want to flip the hot and cold water handles. I always turn on the water with my left hand and hate the fact that I'm wasting heated water. I could just get over it but since I've hit the half century mark I've decided that I'm an old dog who can't learn new tricks (unless I really want to).

35 years ago, when I was still in high school, I took some continuing ed cooking classes with my mom (who never learned to cook from her mom). The class was taught by a woman named Gloria Henry, a short, busy Caribbean woman who specialized in French food. She opened up the world of flavors to me and I will be eternally grateful. When I graduated from high school she gave me a 12" cast iron skillet which I use still and I think about her every time I pull it out.

So far to go - a broken swing arm lamp, some art that my mother in law gave me that I've always disliked, some clothes and a broken bulletin board. I don't think I'll be pulling anything out.

Wow!

I keep them in the fridge in a carton on the shelf, I get them from the "egg woman" down the road and I never had one go bad. And the price is swoon worthy - a dozen for 2 bucks!

My husband votes for Polish and I vote for Greek, but we're German and Austrian so I guess we need to be loyal.

Every summer I take my crock pot, toaster oven, rice cooker, and coleman stove out to my covered deck and do almost all of my cooking out there. My husband has a name for my summer kitchen but it's kind of rude in a funny way, but it saves me from heating up my unairconditioned house. Since the gas and charcoal grills are nearby and we do most of our eating out there it saves the kitchen from being too much of a mess too.

The only thing I ever seem to do is add horseradish to mayo. We've got a new Belgium restaurant in our city and I've become addicted to all the different flavors you can get for your fries. I need to be more adventurous!

I've been eating raw sugar snap pea, summer squash and radish salads for the past week! Sometimes the peas and radishes don't even make it to the plate!

I grow this in my upstate NY garden, but I know it as meadow rue. It spreads like crazy and I actually have to pull it out when it threatens the peonies! It is really hardy and super easy to grow.