a kitchen meme

Since I haven't done one in a while, and this interested me...

Meme via rosefox:

Bold the ones you have and use at least once a year, italicize the ones you have and don’t use, strike through the ones you have had but got rid of.

pasta machines, breadmakers, juicers, blenders, deep fat fryers, egg boilers, melon ballers, sandwich makers, pastry brushes, cheese knives, electric woks, miniature salad spinners, griddle pans, jam funnels, meat thermometers, filleting knives, egg poachers, cake stands, garlic crushers, martini glasses, tea strainers, bamboo steamers, pizza stones, coffee grinders, milk frothers, piping bags, banana stands, fluted pastry wheels, tagine dishes, conical strainers, rice cookers, steam cookers, pressure cookers, slow cookers, spaetzle makers, cookie presses, gravy strainers, double boilers (bains marie), sukiyaki stoves, food processors, ice cream makers, takoyaki makers, and fondue sets

I seem to have a remarkably lo-tech kitchen.  Also, not a lot of toys.  Although I do own a decanter, a popcorn popper, a non-electric wok, a wonton press, a toaster oven, a microwave, an ice cream scoop, a mortar & pestle, etc, all of which I use on a regular basis. And a coffee maker (in the pantry) as well as my French press...  Yeah, lo-tech, and stripped down for a NYC kitchen.  But I feel no lack.

(I should note that I probably do need a filleting knife.  I just keep finding workarounds)


(original meme here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/sep/21/home-kitchen-250000-cooking-need)

erev Yom Kippur

I am not - as most of you know - an observant Jew. I am, in fact, a forgetting-to-practice Jew who is far more cultural than religious, more in tune with the Buddhist philosophy than anything my Conservative (and even the Reform) cousins might recognize. But Yom Kippur... Yom Kippur I observe, in my own way. Although I am not a member of a synagogue, I listen to the Kol Nidrei (thank you, Internets) and I refrain from food, and I consider what it means, to open yourself up and offer forgiveness, to open yourself to others, and ask for forgiveness.

And how very hard, sometimes, both of those things are.

And how very necessary, and good, both those things are, in this world we all inhabit.

If, in the past year, I have caused you pain or hurt, either intentionally or unintentionally, I apologize, and I ask your forgiveness. May there be peace between us.

If, in the past year, you have caused me pain or hurt, either intentionally or unintentionally, I let go of any grudge or resentment. I forgive the harm, I let go of the hurt. I am at peace with you.

On this eve, may we be released from all vows made to ourselves, or with our god(s), that proved impossible to keep, from all promises attempted but unfulfilled. May we be at peace with ourselves.

From this Day of Atonement until the next.

Amen.

G'mar Hatimah Tovah. May you be sealed for a good year in the Book of Life.