Thursday, April 17, 2014

In My Kitchen: The Heart of the Home










(Joining Heather again for the kitchen blog hop.)

This week and next are two of the busiest of the semester for me, so there is relatively little cooking goodness going on in my kitchen right now. Instead, lots of easy dinners (pasta on Wednesday--anybody remember the old Prince spaghetti commercial in New England, the one with Anthony?).

Even so, the kitchen is still clearly the heart of the home, where:
  • I made a cake to celebrate my son's thirteenth birthday
  • I set up cups of relaxing tea or awakening espresso to get through the madness
  • remnants of work pass through (I am leading a discussion on "Even the Rain" at one of our global film festival events on campus today)
  • My girl reads
  • My boy leaves cubes around, in-between speed cubing sessions
  • We gradually eat artisan chocolate sent to us from Ecuador--made by one of my friend's sons! 
  • We always have a home-made calendar, my gift from Howard on home-made night at Hanukkah every year
The kitchen is also the room I first walk into when I mark the passage from work-day to home-time.  Ahhhhh...

What's your favorite non-cooking way that the kitchen is the heart of your home?

17 comments:

  1. We had birthday cake too which means it was a great week!

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    1. Yay! Another birthday! We've got mine coming up in a couple of weeks also.

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  2. That chocolate cake looks heavenly!

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  3. That birthday cake looks amazing. A perfect way to celebrate a 13 year old!

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    1. Thanks, all! It was pretty good. Chocolate-chocolate always wins the day (though sometimes they want whoopie pie filling between the layers--smart kids).

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  4. Looks so good.. Thanks for the lovely visit..

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  5. Oops, definitely looks GOOD! (lost my d :)

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    1. Still appropriate before--the frosting was, after all, a bit gooey!

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  6. My kitchen is also the place where I change and clothe my Little Boy. Although it is a fight, lately, I just love the times we're all giggly and having fun at the changing table, or when I prepare him to go to bed and he's cuddly and sleepy. And I love going through magazines at the kitchen table, it's just the perfect spot for that. Thanks for sharing!

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    1. Thank you for sharing more of how your kitchen is the heart of the home!

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  7. i do remember that commercial! :)

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    1. I'm so glad that someone did! It's etched into my childhood memories.

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  8. That cake loos so good. It's ages since I've made a chocolate cake. I hope that your son had an amazing birthday.

    My favourite non-food related use of the kitchen is when we have lots of family around the table playing board games.
    deb

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    1. Board games! Yes. Good nights with much laughter!

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