Kimchi CQ

about me

I live in a Post-War Tract House that we're slowly updating. The Man and I are battling over "Generic Cheap But Functional, Modern, and Cosmetic" vs. "Being True to Post-War Period Housing, Evoking a Sense of Nostalgia and Respect for Our Parent's Generation." Mostly HE'S winning.

We have a 7'x15' galley style kitchen, one end of which is supposedly the dining nook. It's not nookish at all. It's just the end of the room in front of the doorway to the rest of the house. There is no dining room or other eating area. This is one area I would eagerly modernize, reserving nostalgia solely for the decor. Instead, it seems to be the only part of the house that will preserve its original integrity.

Our dining table is too big for the space, and even a small table would block the doorway. So we put a breakfast bar on the long wall - smack dab in front of a 4'x5' window. We put a kitcheny-looking bookcase at the short wall, so all my cookbooks and recipe card boxes are at hand.

My favorite cookbook is the Betty Crocker Dessert Cookbook my mother gave me for my 17th Christmas. My next favorite is the Hill Country (Austin, Tx) Senior Activity Center's Recipe Book for 1982. We have a number of old "found" cookbooks which the Man and I shamelessly picked from various trash cans. (It's the only trash picking we do, honest - and by the way, I sterilize them with an old trick I learned from an Elder; however, I won't divulge the secret for liability reasons).

Favorite Foods:

I love salads and vegetables of many kinds (except brussel sprouts and canned spinach). I enjoy making pies, and have a few favorite crust recipes (depending on the type of pie). I don't know that I'm "famous" for any dishes, but the Man especially enjoys my Crockpot Chicken and all the meals that follow from it (especially the various chicken soups). Many people also ask me to make Baked Fries, with various seasonings, and my fruit salad with my own dressing concoction. My son, bless his heart, will eat anything I put in front of him... now that he's full-grown and has to buy his own groceries for his own home.

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