Bit OT - what's the best bakeware?

[brazen20au]

cute!

[cookie1]

Looks wonderful. Still love that gorgeous tidy kitchen. When I learn to do photos I'll have to shift all my cookbooks etc, etc to be even half as neat as that.

[Ceejay]

Looks wonderful. Still love that gorgeous tidy kitchen. When I learn to do photos I'll have to shift all my cookbooks etc, etc to be even half as neat as that.

I almost do that to cook!  What with a 14yo who insists on taking up half the kitchen space and vying for the TMX, it seems to a hub of mess almost constantly... until the kids are at school again... LOL

Lovely bread!  I'm getting great results with my new bread tin too.. and lovely using fresh yeast as well!

[brazen20au]

i'm currently in negotiations with dh to get some extra bench space - i have TWO knife blocks on my (very limited) benches. i actually own a magnetic knife rack but dh won't put it up because he thinks it's dangerous. how it can be more dangerous than having the knives on the bench i'm not sure. if only i knew what i was doing i would just do it myself!!!

[gertbysea]

Cejay where did you get the fresh yeast? When I talked to Andrew my new bread Guru he told me it made no difference but I wonder.....

Gretchen

PS. Yes I know you are all thinking I am a bit anal and I confess I am a tidy everything in it's place person. It came from years of working in the operating theatre where you had to be able to put your hands on any instrument even if blindfolded. It is very easy as there are just the two of us here. My DH has never been know to come into the kitchen. Believe me it was not like that 40 years ago with 2 kiddies  and a hotplate on a bench. Ah life is good.

[gertbysea]

i'm currently in negotiations with dh to get some extra bench space - i have TWO knife blocks on my (very limited) benches. i actually own a magnetic knife rack but dh won't put it up because he thinks it's dangerous. how it can be more dangerous than having the knives on the bench i'm not sure. if only i knew what i was doing i would just do it myself!!!

You are right of course. Just screw the magnetic  thing on a wall the kids can't reach. I just had my 3 year old granddaughter here sitting on the bench top where she could have reached a block but but she could not reach the knives on the wall from the floor without some effort. Just be sure to place it where the knives, should they fall off, not land on the floor.  In my last house I had the knives on the back wall next to the stove. This wall is glass so too hard. Had to put it on the side. 

Gretchen

[brazen20au]

gretchen, it's a tiled wall, i asked my dad for advice and he said i need some special doodahs to do it LOL (actually i asked him to do it while he was here one day but i didn't hae the doodahs so he couldn't)

[Ceejay]

Cejay where did you get the fresh yeast? When I talked to Andrew my new bread Guru he told me it made no difference but I wonder.....

My local continental baker... I pick up a loaf of sourdough spelt and 250g of compressed yeast every week.

[judydawn]

Karen, go to a hardware shop and tell them what you want to do with your knives and they'll point you in the right direction to get the doodahs you need.  Take them home, make like you are going to start putting them up yourself (arm yourself with an electric drill or whatever you need) and your DH will soon take over.  Just make sure he is in the kitchen when you pretend to start installing the knives though otherwise you may have to see the whole project through on your own
My ex was dilly dallying once in the middle of building a room on the back of our house (watching sport on TV instead) so I picked up the circular saw and turned it on.  He came outside lickety split and the project was back on track

[Ceejay]

My ex was similar JD... only when he took the power tool off me, he set about buying me my own set so I could do the jobs I wanted to! 

[judydawn]

  He just didn't want you messing with HIS tools Ceejay.  Funny how they are both now exes

[brazen20au]

heehee judy!

funny thing is pre-kids i was acutally handier than him but havne't done much at all (even changing lightbulbs lol) since then!

[alioop]

lol Judy - that cracked me up!! !
I kept ironing my DHs work trousers with the crease in the wrong place down the front - just could't get it right  - now he irons them himself (and he does the kids school uniforms as well) !!

[judydawn]

Well, there you go girls - try Ali's tip and it may work for you too   I do love to see a man do his own ironing - just wish son-in-law would learn how to so that I didn't have to do it when I am down there babysitting. Mind you, they do pay me to do it which is just as well as I HATE ironing business shirts with a passion.

[brazen20au]

i don't iron. dh used to do his own til we had kids - now he pays the ironing lady to do his business shirts