In my kitchen…
…is a vase of magnificent tulips, a gift from lovely Keri…
In my kitchen…
…is a silicon “Home Made” stamp, which I first spied on my friend Becca’s blog. I finally tracked one down at Peters of Kensington…
I couldn’t resist defrosting a roll of shortbread freezer cookie dough and testing it out!
In my kitchen…
…are drying branches of curry and bay leaves, gifts from my friend the Spice Girl…
She also gave me a treasured jar of her backyard honey, with her daughter Tara’s custom label…
In my kitchen…
…are interesting packets of Italian spaghetti. The squid ink is absolutely delicious with a seafood sauce, but we’ve yet to try the chilli pasta or the five flavoured combination (chilli, squid ink, spinach, turmeric and plain)…
I also have spinach fusilli and orecchiette, the latter being a classic Apulian shape…
They’re meant to look like little ears, but I think they resemble turtle shells…
In my kitchen…
…is a batch of June’s Hungarian cottage cheese and sour cream cake, made with 900g of defrosted sweet pastry dough from the freezer…
Pete and Big Boy are huge fans of this dish, as are the neighbours!
In my kitchen…
…is an experimental loaf of sourdough, made with 30g of leftover drippings from a recent lamb roast and lots of garden rosemary. The crumb is tender and the crust quite thin and crisp – probably as a result of the lard. It was delicious with pumpkin soup, but as usual with all things lardy, Pete was grossed out…
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Tell me, what’s happening in your kitchen this month?
If you’d like to do an In My Kitchen post on your own blog, please feel free to use this format, and to leave a comment here linking back to your post. We’d all love to see what’s happening in your kitchen every month too!
Fig Jam and Lime Cordial 
You’re an inspiration in the kitchen.’In my kitchen’ has got to be one of my favourite things to read about on your blog.
I always have a stock of fusilli and orecchiette in the pantry – it’s my family’s favourite pasta. Those ‘home made’ biscuits are fantastic too.
Thanks Sonia! We cooked the fusilli yesterday – beautiful flavour and kept its al dente bite perfectly!
I love this post! That cakes looks amazing. Lucky neighbours! I buy that brand of orichiette too. Great with chilli, anchovies and broccoli.
Thanks Mrs B – I’ll try them when we next make broccoli pasta (we love that recipe too, but usually make it with tortellini, as the boys need meat to fill them up!).
I want some of that cottage cheese cake – yum!
Of course. What time are you coming? ;-)
In my kitchen is the smell of paint, all that’s left of the painter who has been in it all weekend giving it the ‘once-over’. I’m so pleased to have it all freshened up, at last.
I bet it looks wonderful, Amanda! I’m impressed you found someone to work over the long weekend! :)
In my kitchen is a big pile of Jerusalem Fartichokes, a bottle of Blackcurrant Vinegar and some Gapi paste. Somehow I don’t feel inspired to create a dish using all three ingredients!
Isn’t the cookie stamp gorgeous? I love mine, I even use it for some of my cafe coookies so the customers know that I make them fresh and they’re not bought in from the wholesalers.
Becca, the cookie cutter really is gorgeous, thanks for the headsup! :)
Having just been invited to a wedding in Puglia an hour ago, just seeing the orrecciette made me smile. Love the Home made stamp- that’s very cool.
My kitchen has seen 100% ryes been played with lately with different results, (am still working on them though). Nothing happening in the kitchen at the moment as I’m not there. :-)
We’ve just had the orecchiette for lunch, with a San Marzano and chorizo sauce. It’s delicious! Are you in Italy, Brydie? That’s very very exciting! :)
eek! No, no back home again now. Italia next year for the wedding. Geez, I wish though ;-)
Great stuff Celia. In my kitchen are dirty dishes, empty wine bottles and a pile of unpaid bills. But I have beautiful sunshine steaming through my kitchen window this morning, so everything is good!
Don’t mention the bills, Dave! Nice to have a day off though, especially if it’s sunny! (Raining here!)
I get so excited when I get the ‘In my kitchen’ email. I am in love with that stamp. Adding it to my want list right now.
As always all your goodies look delicious.
Claire, thank you! The stamp is so cute, although I think it will take a bit of experimenting to figure out what doughs to use it with. Becca’s gingerbread cookies kept far more definition than my shortbread ones did…
In my kitchen here in Paris is….well it is not really my kitchen is it? But wait there is more. Wide white bowls for drinking milky coffee, a big black cast iron casserole, several cookbooks in French, 3 wooden boards but not a decent sharp knife, I travel with my own. Will take some photos to share with you.
Roz, I would love to see what’s in your Paris kitchen! I can’t believe you travel with knives – how ever do you get through customs? :)
That cake looks fantastic…just the thing for a rainy day with a cup of tea…yum~!
Not much happening in my kitchen at the moment. A couple of french yogurt cakes made with almond meal and berries…some left over cakes brought by a friend who came to dinner on Saturday…and half a batch of chocolate chip cookie dough in the fridge waiting to be baked for an afternoon treat.
SG, thank you for all the treats! The leaves have now all dried completely and are being used regularly in cooking! Yoghurt cake with berries sounds divine..(we do have a lot of berries, don’t we? :))
I love these posts too Celia and I love reading through everybody else’s comments. That cake – mmm, that cake: cottage cheese for “because I’m on a diet” and sour cream for “because I’ve had cottage cheese so surely a little sour cream can’t hurt’:) Ticks all my boxes!
Jan darling, it’s soooo good for you! It’s not regular cottage cheese though, but a farm style one made by Brancourts. June is quite pedantic about the finished texture, but I’m pretty sure you could sub ricotta or cottage cheese, or a combination of both, and still have a very nice result.
Tulips! So beautiful on such a miserable day! Oh, I wish I had some cottage cheese because that cake is calling me. With the East coast low dropping buckets of rain on us, I’m not going shopping to get cottage cheese. My kitchen is very boring at the moment. I’ve got a batch of Turkish bread proofing and at least the smell of baking bread will lift my spirits. I too have Jerusalem artichokes, maybe I’ll bake them after the bread.
Liz, as I mentioned to Jan, the cheese June uses isn’t a regular cottage cheese, but a European style one by Brancourts (available in most good delis and gourmet fruit shop). The rain is really coming down here as well, but I’ve just taken out some ciabatta loaves which is making me happy.. :)
Another wonderful “In My Kitchen” post Celia with wonderful treasures as always. I really love the home made stamp. There is very little in my kitchen at the moment as we are pairing down for our trip home on the 28th. I will however be baking a batch of carrot cake cupcakes today.
:-) Mandy
Mandy, that’s so soon! Hope the move goes well – can’t wait to see what the next instalment of your kitchen adventures brings! :)
Hey Celia,
How’s this weather! Up here in Newcastle its blowing a gale and here comes more rain (no Pasha Bulkers though I hope)
I love your post – its so inspiring. In my kitchen is a pile of Lady’s Fingers bananas off our “tree”. Not a bad stash considering the price of bananas at present. Its banana bread and smoothies and as I write little man is whipping up some chocolate muffins. He is so proud of himself. Big choc grin on his face. I feel another cuppa coming on.
Stay warm.
Lisa, thank you! Crazy weather, eh? We’ve just driving back through the mountains, and it was windy and wet. Small people in the kitchen are so much fun – your little man sounds like a treasure! Warm muffins and tea sounds perfect.. :)
I like lardy things…and covet that homemade stamp. I have a box of Turkish Delight from Istanbul and a box of Japanese bean jelly things – both gifts, both quite exotic, lovely to look at although the latter is less nice to eat to my tastes!
Sally, they both sound so interesting – an authentic Turkish Delight must be amazing!
I have made a wheat free desert/cake “thing” with apples and fruit mince inside, lots of lemon in it too. About to have some for afternoon tea with coconut cream. Not bad but cooking without wheat and cow things is a bit restrictive. It’s been a wheat free weekend. Laksa with tofu, sprouts and rice noodles, buckwheat noodles the list goes on! This morning I dried out some banana skins in the skillet to be used to make “black soap” Apparently you burn banana skins to ash with the leaves of the shea tree and then mix the alkaline ash with fresh shea butter. I don’t know where to get the shea butter so I am building up to this by collecting a jar of dried banana skins. I’ve often made soap so I am eyeing off the nearly emply or forgotten bottles of oil I found in yesterdays big kitchen cleanse and clean up, but today is too wet to feel like making soap.
Sounds like you’ve had a really productive weekend, Frances! Laksa with tofu sounds especially appealing in this weather! :)
Ooh I must make that cake! It looks delicious and I just bought a large pot of sour cream! :D
Lorraine, if you do, I bought the European style cottage cheese from Trims in Leichhardt Market Town.. :)
Haha I knew you’d know a good place to get it ;) Thank you!
Yum! Celia I was thinking of you over the weekend – I made Epi loaves to take to a dinner with friends. I think I’ve finally got my sourdough starter worked out. My husband, Mr P, had a go yesterday a making dough for pizza. He did caramalised onions & Jambon, it was great.
Your Hungarian sour cream cake looks wonderful, I think I’m going to have to bake that this week. Luckily everyone at work is happy to eat my baking, otherwise I’d look like the side of a house!
In my kitchen I have camellia’s Mr P picked between downpours this morning; a little wet in Sydney this weekend. Your gorgeous welding gloves, thank you so much Celia, sweet cinnamon scrolls & a dark ginger cake. The house smells amazing.
Suz, those tulips were from your gorgeous Keri! :)
Sounds like you’ve had a wonderful long weekend of baking – I can almost smell it all! :)
Yum, what a mouth-watering post. I’ve just made up some lemon cordial and started some limoncello to use as Xmas presents.
Oooh, limoncello sounds good! My neighbours keep a bottle in the freezer too! :)
I look forward to your “in my kitchen” posts….
Thanks Norma! Your new blog is looking wonderful! :)
The shortbread cookie stamp is the spiff!
Maz.
Thanks Maz! It was fun to play with too!
Ok. that does it. I want to be your friend AND neighbor.
:-)
You ARE my friend, Sally! :) Neighbour would be lovely, especially because you’d make me run up mountains… ;-)
Running hills is surprisingly easy once you get the hang of it, so yes, I’d take you along and we would devour one of your sourdough breads once the run is over :-)
What lovely gifts Celia. I’ve seen that cookie stamp on a couple of blogs and I want one too. I’ve tried the squid ink pasta (shhhh don’t tell anyone) and it was very good. I did it when friends were coming over for dinner with a cream sauce so it looked rather stunning as a black and white dish. I’ve had chilli pasta too and very much liked that. As you know I’m very keen to be one of your neighbours ;-)
In my kitchen I have a batch of failed cupcakes from what was meant to be yesterdays “knock em dead” strawberry cupcakes – sigh!
Choc, we’ve just had the chilli pasta tonight – it was delicious with a rich tomato sauce. I wish you could be one of my neighbours! :)
Oh Celia I love love the stamp. in my kitchen is a laptop and with Excel open and a woman with a pain in her brain from accounts. No one told me that being a chocolatier would have its downsides!
Gill, I hope you can find the stamp – it’s UK made so should be easy to track down. Accounts are hard, and I’ve never understood how anyone managed to balance the ups and down of manufacture and retail cash flow…hope the numbers make sense soon…
Those tulips still going girl! They do look magnificent! I am dying to make the cottage cheese & sour cream cake, this is exactly the style of cakes my boys love! My bread making has been put on the back burner for the moment as life is just too crazy but that cake….. yes it will be a late night make this week I’m sure. Thanks for all of your wonderful ideas. x
Keri, thanks again – they were such a treat! And they opened so beautifully – all straight and tall! Breadbaking can always wait until life is calmer… :) x
My first visit here in too long of time and what a treat that the first post is of what’s in your kitchen! I love these posts…it’s always so interesting to see what up…the tulips are beautiful…but so is the coffee cake!
Cindy, so nice to see you, thanks for dropping by! Some months the kitchen gets so busy! :)
Oh, those curry leaves look divine. Of course, so does everything else, but those really called out to me :)
Sasha, they’re very exciting to have – and they go all crispy in oil when we’re making a curry! :)
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The stamp really adds that professional touch. However I bet people will think it’s a brand.
Hehehe..Jason, you’re probably right! :)
Inspired by your lovely collection to do one of my own this month – especially as I seem to have been on the receiving end of many varied gifts of interesting food.
http://mycustardpie.com/2011/06/15/in-my-kitchen/
Sally, what wonderful things you have in your kitchen this month!! Thanks for joining in!
Sally sent me here, and what a lovely idea. I just adore that stamp :)
Tandy, thanks for stopping by! :)
Oh I love the honey label – adore a witty redundancy, fabulous stuff… and I tell you what, if the little girl doesn’t come by this week – could I have one of those chocolates on a stick… the train one looks about right to me :D
Ali, of course you can, but are you sure you don’t want a chocolate chook or two? :)
1. LOVE those tulips!!
2. A bicky stamp? Or a normal stamp to use for bickys? So sweet.
3. The dripping loaf sounds positively *intriguing*!!
All wonderful happenings in your kitchen, Celia. Here, you already know, apples drying (dried now), starter starting out, and d/washer needing turned out..which I’m off to do right now! xx
Chris, the dripping loaf was intriguing…and a one-off. Pete refused to eat it… ;-)
Your kitchen’s looking pretty wonderful at the moment, with all the sourdough loves and appley things! :)
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One of the things I love most about blogging is getting a glimpse into other foodies’ homes. I have participated for the first time, thanks Celia.
Oooh, thanks for playing along, Cindy! I’ll go take a peek in your kitchen now! :)
http://blogs.food24.com/Sous-Chef/in-my-kitchen-the-peep-in-challenge
I got this from Cindy (The Only Cin) such a nice concept so I thought I would join in.
Sue, thanks so much for joining in!
In your kitchen …. it’s lovely. Thanks for posting.
Here from Cindy Taylor, The only Cin.
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Thanks for stopping by, Jamie! :)
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Hi Celia!
I finally have a moment to do a real post and the first one I did was an “In my kitchen…”
Thanks so much for the inspiration, the encouragement, the friendship, and the banneton!
http://heidiannie.com/?p=4307
Heidi, thank you for joining in! I always love seeing what’s in your kitchen!! :)
I love the hanging curry leaves et al branches….and the stamp. Thank you for sharing and inspiring.
Oz, the curry leaves are so yummy – I’ve now stripped all the dry leaves and have them in a box, and am busily throwing them into everything I cook.. :)
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Hi Celia, where do you buy your orecchiette? I brought a bag back with me from Italy and now I’m hooked!
Would love to try their squid ink and chilli types too :)
p.s I have been reading your blog for 2 months now, and I have since been making my own bread. You have revived the domestic goddess within. I also make my own yoghurt, and am experimenting with flavoured oils and vanilla essense from scratch, thanks to yours and NQN’s inspirational blogs.
Kind regards,
Dimity
Hi Dimity, I bought ours in Haberfield at Lamonica’s IGA, where they also stock the chilli spaghetti. They used to have the squid ink as well, but I haven’t seen it there for a while. Thanks for the lovely ps, great to know you’re enjoying the blog! :)