Reading, Eating… and Demolishing the Kitchen
Oh, hello! I have to admit there’s not much to report, reading-wise. I finished this: …and will now move on to the last book of the Ender Saga. My son is almost done with it, and he has The Shadow Saga (a related storyline to Ender) ready to go. Meanwhile, I’ve slowly been returning books to the library unread (because the library seems to want them back.) After I finish the Ender Saga, I might take a break from Orson Scott Card (temporarily) and read some of the other books I had planned on this summer! Eating-wise, I made this Vegetable Korma, and served it with naan from Trader Joe’s. And, inspired by Suzanne,, I made a stir fry with this Szechuan sauce. It was delicious, but after this meal my husband announced that he never wants to see tofu, broccoli, or rice again. I guess we do need to branch out a bit. So let’s talk about the kitchen! We’ve lived in this house twenty years, and although we did change out the appliances along the way, we still have the original cabinets and countertops. They’ve been in pretty bad shape for several years, but my husband and I were not in agreement about how to proceed, so we just lived with it. Finally, the situation became dire, my husband and I quickly got in agreement, and the new cabinets are coming next week, woohoo! Followed by countertops and then a new backsplash. My husband is determined to do the demolition himself, and he’s already started. First of all, our kitchen is tiny (sigh.) There’s not much we can do about that, but we had this weird cabinet that ran perpendicular to the oven. It did give a little more counter space, but made the kitchen even smaller, and having more than one person trying to cook at one time was enraging. The new design will just have cabinets continuing in a straight line after the oven. Meanwhile, underneath the ripped out counter was this: Someone apparently put tile over laminate flooring, and THEN someone put another layer of tile over that. Luckily, when we moved into the house there were extra tiles in the garage, and we still have them! My husband is in the process of tiling over the gaping hole in the floor. OR, we could just tear up all the tile and go with the original laminate. JUST KIDDING! It’s so hideous. Although I’m sure it looked lovely when it was new, in the 1970s. I’m not sure what meals are going to look like for the next couple of weeks…. it’s going to be challenging. We’re planning to do some meal prep this weekend, and then hopefully we’ll at least have the stove available most days to heat things up. I see some Bolay and Chipotle in our future! How long have you lived in your house? Have you done any major kitchen projects?