Family Foodies

I have been tagged for a 25 Things meme. Thank You, Kelly!

Since I’m interning here at Family Foodies, I will list 25 Things about my kitchen, skills included!

1. There are 2 refrigerators in my kitchen. I can’t talk my hubby to move the second one into the garage….yet.
2. I love to cook with garlic and onions. I ran out of onions once, and had a panic attack. Cooking dinner that night was torturous!
3. I prefer using fresh garlic off the bulb rather than canned or dried garlic.
4. When I was about 12, my mom told me to fill up the flour canister. She handed me the bag, I opened it and dumped it in. As I was pulling the sack out, my mom informed me that the flour bag was a 10 pound bag, and the canister was a 5 pound one. It became a huge mess. I have been teased ever since about putting ’5 into 10′.
5. After the birth of my 3rd child, a little girl, I was making DiGorno pizza and burned it. My sons, then 10 and 13, have called it “De Burno’ pizza ever since.
6. I have a dishwasher but still like to wash my dishes by hand. It’s somehow calming for me.
7. All the skillets and griddles in my kitchen are cast iron. I have just about every size made. I love them.
8. It is so satisfying to keep a good ‘season’ on my cast iron pans. They were the original ‘non stick’ skillet.
9. I clean my kitchen sink with baking soda and lemon juice. Bleach based cleansers give me a headache.
10. I like to make a weekly menu and shop for it but then I don’t follow it. I can’t figure out why I do that.
11. I like to cook with Smart Blend oil
12. When time is crunched and I want to serve a nutritious meal, I make fried egg sandwiches…. we have them at least once a week.
13. I just learned how to make rice without making it sticky.
14. I add garlic and cauliflower to my potatoes when I am boiling them for mashed potatoes. It makes them tastier and creamier.
15. I enjoy making Thanksgiving Dinner at my house and use paper plates for easy clean up.
16. I never had turkey for Thanksgiving until I was married at age 18. We always had wild game that my dad had hunted. I thought turkey was the most boring meat I ever had when I first ate it.
17. I like mixing things with my hands, rather than a spoon. I think it is residual of my little girl “mud pie’ days.
18. I’m a western girl who loves sweet tea. I make it all the time.
19. There is a collection of old teapots above the cupboards in my kitchen.
20. I prefer using wooden spoons while cooking.
21. My coffee is stored in the freezer.
22. We prefer liquid creamer over powder.
23. There is always raw apple cider vinegar in the fridge.
24. I keep raw honey on hand
25. When there is a cold coming on, I make a cup of water hot, and add a teaspoon of the raw apple cider vinegar and two teaspoons of the raw honey to the cup and feed it to who ever isn’t feeling well, including me, if I need it.

I hope you enjoyed the 25 things about my kitchen.