Some of you may remember my kitchen in NYC. It was 6' x 7' and while I liked that it was cozy, I was seriously lacking for space.
I mentioned in my intro thread that the kitchen in our flat is easily my favorite room, for the reasons you'll see below.
The spices are technically not on top of the stove but on a ledge that sits behind the stove. Not a good place to put them, but we're short on that, ironically. Most of those are old and probably need to be tossed at some point. I keep the newer stuff in the cabinet above.
The cabinet that's peeking out to the left of the stove holds baking sheets, cookie sheets and other assorted pans and racks.
The cabinets to the left of the island hold dishes, china, ramekins and wine glasses. (We like to entertain a lot.)
The machine next to the slow cooker is a Japanese rice cooker.
There are cabinets and drawers to the right side of the island that hold more dishes, Tupperware, more pots and pans and various miscellaneous things like kitchen towels, mittens, matches, kitchen shears, toothpicks and the like.
This section was re-organized after I moved in so I wouldn't spend a lot of time looking for stuff.
The green Dutch oven is one of a very small handful of pots and pans that made it to California. Ditto for the blender which is part of a combo food processor that B bought for my 44th birthday.
This is the main countertop where a lot of my prep work occurs. The food processor also has a blender attachment.
The knives I use most often are (1) a Japanese chef's knife from Bernal Cutlery (see link below) and (2) the silicon knife you see in the foreground at center-left.
http://bernalcutlery.com/
I have a photo of the front section that I would dearly love to upload but the photo uploader thingie isn't behaving -- it's treating the pic as 100 x 100 pixels which is not at all the case b/c the original is actually 1600 x 1200. Very frustrating. Maybe I can load a different pic when I get home.
Part of the kitchen-gadget drawer which also doubles as our silverware drawer.
No chopsticks -- B uses them to eat with, and I don't bother with them. I used to know how to use them but when I emigrated to the U.S., I lost that knowledge and never re-learned the skill. Maybe one of these days, but I rather doubt it.
There are three more drawers below this one. Immediately below are another utensil drawer for tongs, spatulas, spoons and whisks. The one below that holds aluminum foil, plastic wrap, plastic baggies, parchment paper, etc.
The one below that has lids for various pots and pans.
We love our kitchen, clearly.
Pantry.
We have tons of olive oil because I tend to go through it like water.
This pic was shot in November 2015 -- I can guarantee you that the amount of "stuff" has ballooned since then.
Dry goods pantry.
The glass jar in the middle is a jar of preserved lemons (Meyer lemons, kosher salt, olive oil, rosemary, peperoncini). It's about half gone at this point unlike in the pic above.
As for our cookbooks, they're in a room dedicated just for them.
It's a small but growing collection. I've added about 10 books since these pix were shot, most recently a Basque cookbook that I will soon post about.
Oh, and I forgot. Above the kitchen cabinets are where we keep our copper pots and pans (which I should really use more often), and B's Kitchen Aid mixer. Damn the lucky fucker. LOL. I've always wanted one.
