VaporDaddy- Foodies are weird! =p

[stinkyattic]

Haha I thought you'd appreciate this...

Okay, here's the kitchen. When I bought my house, I tore out an ugly but perfectly serviceable TRADITIONAL kitchen... you know, with cupboards and shit... and replaced it with this hodgepodge!

I'm REALLY bad around flea markets, tag sales, and the like... as you can see. All that 1940s and 50s shit works great. And the copper pots, I don't think I paid more than about $10 for any of them except that giant sautoir, which was outrageous but I HAD to have it. That thing gets a lot of use... It needs retinning already!

The floor-to-ceiling spice collection has pretty much anything your could imagine, including asafaetida (Um I think it translates to 'fetid ass' lol --- nerd points for anyone who knows what it is, let alone would actually use it in their food--- it is the worst smell I have ever smelled).

Anyway it's kinda funny, people come over and just sort of go around poking at things. Meals are frequently eaten standing around the island because it is virtually impossible to get guests away from all the gadgets and whatnot.
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y mother is HORRIFIED. You can only imagine.

That last pic was dinner a few nights back. Mmmm garlic. Gotta love long-distance relationships.... gives one quite a bit of freedom... haha Oh those little pucks are grilled polenta.

stinkyattic Reviewed by stinkyattic on 05-23-2007. VaporDaddy- Foodies are weird! =p Haha I thought you'd appreciate this... Okay, here's the kitchen. When I bought my house, I tore out an ugly but perfectly serviceable TRADITIONAL kitchen... you know, with cupboards and shit... and replaced it with this hodgepodge! I'm REALLY bad around flea markets, tag sales, and the like... as you can see. All that 1940s and 50s shit works great. And the copper pots, I don't think I paid more than about $10 for any of them except that giant sautoir, which was outrageous but I HAD to Rating: 5

[stinkyattic]

I told you in chat my dream is to open a little place of my own someday... the dining room is basically EXACLTY how I want the decor to be... except I need some bullfight posters fo sho.

The last pics... I TOLD you I had the Larousse, and one of Escoffier's tomes, lol!!!

[surreys princess]

i love the colour of your walls...

and....your kitchen has EVERYTHING....awesome...

[birdgirl73]

Awesome kitchen, Stinky! I'm going to follow your lead and start looking for copper pots at tag sales, estate sales and flea markets.

I win the nerd points! Asafoetida is an Indian (originally Persian, I think) spice that's really the dried, ground resin from a plant. I have some in my kitchen, too. A pinch of it goes into my Indian lemon-lentil rice I make. It's a digestive, at least according to my former manager, a wonderful Indian cook who told me I needed to have asatoetida on hand to properly prepare that rice recipe. I'm a spice aficionada, too.

[stinkyattic]

Ding ding! You are the geek!
I love the ideas behind Indian spicing... when one cooks a bean, one must also add asafaetida, turmeric, ginger, or a combination, otherwise one will get the airs, lol... it's like South Asian beano!

I never cook beans and rice together though, as I feel the texture of both suffer, but do them separately and combine them right before serving, and this includes black beans and yellow rice- also, I find that the dusky color of the black beans can really ruin the visual aesthetic of a dish if it is allowed to spread beyond the bens themselves. And chili... beans get served on the side!!! lol

[VaporDaddy]

stinky you never cease to amaze me! Check out my stash;

[stinkyattic]

Nice! So is your kitchen at the top of a staircase there?
And I notice you have a French-style spatula- I approve. I've got one of those too; it's like the simplest cooking implement but gets SO much use, everything from lifting the edges of crepes to frosting cakes to flipping burgers. Those big heavy unwieldy ones, you know, the ones that short order cooks use to scramble eggs, those are just WAY too much and when I was line cooking I pretty mcuh brought my own tools.

[VaporDaddy]

Nice! So is your kitchen at the top of a staircase there?
And I notice you have a French-style spatula- I approve. I've got one of those too; it's like the simplest cooking implement but gets SO much use, everything from lifting the edges of crepes to frosting cakes to flipping burgers. Those big heavy unwieldy ones, you know, the ones that short order cooks use to scramble eggs, those are just WAY too much and when I was line cooking I pretty mcuh brought my own tools.

I did too but it was like bringing a case of beer to an AA meeting. If you take your eyes off it its gone. I used to nearly decapitate dishwashers if they touched my shit. They all were really scared of me, they thought I was truly crazy. hehehehe

[stinkyattic]

Haha they were scared of me too at the Mexican health-food place, the last place I cooked... You know how it is, anyone else who is doing a job slowly that I need to have done to start my closing work would pretty much get run the fuck over by Stinky the Bulldozer... MOVE IT OR LOSE IT PEEPLES... If you can't do you job, I'll do it for you... why aren't the tables cleared when the doors are already locked? I can load and unload a Hobart faster than any dishwasher I've ever seen... even the steak house that I ran the bar at for 9 years, I was likely to just have the owner stand behind the bar near closing, go out back, and kick the dishwasher out to do trash, and finish his shit... they hired the SLOWEST kids... ugh. It was a bad sign to see me come storming through the swinging doors, like in a Western... hahaha... like Clint Eastwood walking in on a bunch of cattle rustlers in the middle of a poker game...

[VaporDaddy]

LOL wow we coulda made a good team. We would have the place closed and spotless 32.5 minuits after closing, then we could pour a frosty one and spark a coner:jointsmile: while we count our $.