In my kitchen…
…is dark golden hazelnut praline. These pieces were eaten straight, and the rest went into a large batch of dark chocolate…
In my kitchen…
…are new beechwood utensils from Chefs’ Warehouse. After several years of using silicone spatulas, we’ve gone back to wooden spoons…
They’re made in France from sustainably harvested timber…
In my kitchen…
…is a simple lemon bar, made with June’s shortcrust pastry…
…Katey’s lemons from her new garden…
…and a recipe from Chicken and Egg by Janice Cole. If you have chickens in your backyard, this is the book for you – the recipes are quite good, but the stories are just fabulous…
In my kitchen…
…are 73 mini chocolate chip cookies…
Here’s a cherry tomato for scale…
In my kitchen…
…and two different butters. This Italian one was bought at Johnny’s shop…
It’s very tasty – quite salty and pale in colour…
The next one is a completely Australian product – Pepe Saya butter is handmade in nearby Tempe using organic cream from Country Valley in Picton, NSW and seasoned with Murray River Pink Salt…
It’s absolutely delicious! At $8.50 for 225g, it’s not cheap, but I think it’s worth it to a support a local company that’s striving so hard for quality…
In my kitchen…
…is lemongrass from the garden. We’ve just divided up our large clump – it was suffering a bit from all the rain…
In my kitchen…
…is a dedicated clay pot cookbook, by Paula Wolfert. Given the number of Römertopf and Emile Henry pots I own, I felt it was a justifiable purchase!
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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 do so. We’d love to see what’s happening in your kitchen this month! Please link back to this blog, and let us know when your post is up, and we’ll add it to our monthly listing.
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Here are this month’s posts…
Siobhan @ Garden Correspondent
Johanna @ Green Gourmet Giraffe
Mel @ The Adventures of Miss Piggy
Mrs Mulberry @ Mulberry and Pomegranate
Anne @ Life in Mud Spattered Boots
Lizzy @ Bizzy Lizzy’s Good Things (Anniversary Post!)
Glenda @ Passion Fruit Garden (check our her Sydney shopping spree!)
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Those lemons look so fresh :) I really love to have them in my lemon bar, too :)
Tes, thank you! Katey moved into a new house with an established lemon tree and she was swamped with gorgeous yellow lemons. So she sent some down to us! :)
Hi Celia
I was just looking at Chef’s Warehouse site today and noticed all their beechwood utensils and here you are you have bought some. Lucky you.
What are you going to do with your lemons? I have three trees laden with lemons.Y
I just bought sesame seeds to make your sesame praline and now you are teasing me with hazelnut praline. You are cruel.
I have put up my IMK – it includes a lot of the things I bought in Sydney – makes me want to go back to Sydney and go shopping with you.
I don’t mean to be cruel, love. :) The hazelnut praline is wickedly good, but only if you can find peeled roasted hazelnuts, otherwise it’s a palaver to rub their skins off. I have no idea what else to do with all the lemons, but we might make some microwave lemon curd, as it’s a doddle.. :)
https://figjamandlimecordial.com/2009/03/17/lemon-curd/
Celia, what wonderful treasures you have in your kitchen this month! I have never thought about grown lemongrass before and I am always a sucker for a good butter.
:-) Mandy
Mandy, until last year, our lemongrass was growing magnificently, then we had a very wet season and it seemed to die off. Hopefully it will come back, although I must admit, I don’t use it very much. It is very nice in boiling water as a tea infusion though.
Oooh, I love the look of those two butters – so different and yet I guess they were both delicious. I think your cookbook purchase was definitely justified and wonder what you’ll decide to make first! Those lemons and lemon bars look fabulous and I could just do with a few cookies (a few is fine when they’re little isn’t it?!). What has made you decide to go back to wood? I’ve got a mixture of wood and silicon in my kitchen.
Caroline, that’s my argument and I’m sticking to it – surely little cookies like that are harmless? ;-) About ten years ago, there was a rumour started that wooden spoons were unhygienic and harboured bacteria, so we switched to silicone. Now they’ve changed their minds and decided wood is naturally antibacterial. And on a practical note, silicone is fine, but just too soft for giving a cake mix a really good beating! :)
Hi Celia… love the good things in your kitchen this month. I can’t cook without good wooden spatulas and spoons, I’m afraid, and I have a drawer full of them! Some are old, they belonged to my mum, others are new and ‘special’ in another way. I use silicon too. Love yours! The biscuits look tasty, I could eat a dozen quite easily. And the lemons, how lovely. Pepe Saya butter is so yummy and Pepe himself a gem. Happy cooking and thanks for hosting these In My Kitchen posts.
Lizzy, I think it was you that put me onto the Pepe Saya butters and Ester from Country Valley in the first place, so thank you very much! The butter is just divine – we use it as eating butter only, and it feels like a treat every single time. :)
Fabulous! The lemon grass and the lemons had me drooling and I’m left to imagine what the hazelnut praeline in chocolate tasted like – delicious I’m sure !
Claire, here’s a photo! :)
:) It looks amazing, and I bet it tastes even better !
The mini cookies are adorable! I love small bites like that, so I can go back and tell my friends I had 8 cookies without feeling too bad about it ;-)
the color of the second butter is amazing, I would be happy with a slice of one of your rustic sourdoughs to go with it
nice glimpse on your kitchen this month, Celia – I also noticed the beautiful plates you’ve presented the food on – gorgeous!
Thanks Sally! The plates are part of the Neighbour Ware I bought earlier in the year when I was sick of the neighbours stealing my plates.. ;-)
https://figjamandlimecordial.com/2012/02/09/neighbour-ware/
Thanks too, lovely Celia, for the mention of my anniversary post! Much appreciated. And your photos are beautiful, by the way! Happy cooking love.
Lizzy, it’s very exciting that it’s your blogaversary! Wishing you many more years of joyous blogging! :)
So many lovelies yet again Celia!
I love little bites of treats, it feels so much more indulgent to have several small pieces than one great big one :)
I’m hoping my Lemon grass has survived our freezing winter, it’s in a very sheltered position, so maybe?
Fingers crossed for you, Becca! Ours has suffered a great deal from the rain, and I think the whole plant needs dividing up occasionally, or it just carks it…
Another nice look around your kitchen, thanks Celia. I just adore Paula Wolfert’s book – I’ll be interested to hear what you make from yours.
Amanda, I haven’t made anything yet! Do you have any recommendations?
I’m not sure if I’m more excited by the butter or the book. As always your kitchen looks delightful Celia.
Rose, the butter is just fabulous, I hope you get to try some of it! I’ll let you all know how the book goes! :)
Good morning Celia. What a lovely selection of good things. Beautiful wooden spoons, I can almost feel them from here. The little cookies look very tempting! Both butters look amazing…perfect for a chunk of good bread. Lemon grass is a hardy plant to have isn’t it? But very sharp! Thank you once again for this fun kitchen tour. My post is linked :)
Jane, thanks for playing! And you’re right about the lemongrass, I’ve cut myself on the leaves before! The wooden spoons are just lovely, and they were really very cheap compared to silicone – the spatula was under $3!
Kitchen of delights as always :) xx
Thank you, dearheart! :) xx
What are you going to do with all that lemongrass? I have 2 plants growing as ornamentals in my flower beds.
Have you ever visited Chefs’ Warehouse and come out empty handed?
Those lemons sure are beautiful.
Norma, the plan was to use the lemongrass in curries, but I don’t do that nearly as often as I should. And no, I’ve never come out of Chefs’ empty-handed.. ;-)
I love the Autralian butter package.
It’s my favourite of the two, Norma!
The cookbook is definitely justified in your house Celia. What a wonderful harvest of lemons. They all look so perfect!
I wouldn’t mind a slathering of that butter on a fresh piece of one of your sourdough loaves. Yum!
Claire, I was quite excited about the cookbook, but I haven’t decided which recipe to make yet. There’s lots of good information about claypots in there to read first! :)
Chicken and Egg looks interesting….and wow, 73 cookies!
Sarah xx
Thanks for dropping by, Sarah! :) The book is fabulous, especially if you’ve got chickens at home – Pete and I were roaring with laughter as we read it!
I’m swooning over everything.. including that butter. I made some sage and garlic butter this week to eat with bread rolls I’d made but I’m sure it doesn’t hold a candle to Pepe Saya.
I want to make cultured butter. Have you tried that yet? Lizzie made some and it looks so good!
Maureen, I’ve made butter before in the past, but nothing as good as Pepe Saya. There is a fabulous videoclip of them making it on their website:
http://www.pepesaya.com.au
Everything in your kitchen looks so good – as always! And as a HUGE FAN of butter that Australian cultured butter is making me drool (I wish I could find something like that here).
~S.
Sorcha, I wonder if it’s available in Victoria? Or you could try making your own – here’s the Pepe Saya video clip on how to do it!
http://www.pepesaya.com.au/Butter_Page.html
Celia, what treasures you have!!! I love your wooden spoons from France. I ‘m with you and Lizzy on that one – I really prefer wooden spoons. I’m slowly building my collection, from family and from travels. Your enormous bowl of lemons is simply to lovely as well. It looks like it has just been plucked from a Matisse still life.
Thank you! The wooden spoons are just wonderful, and they were really reasonably priced too – just a few dollars each!
Ohhh… I covet those wooden spoons! I’m SUCH a fan of wooden spoons. Silicon has a place in my kitchen, but for the most part I’m all about the wooden spoons! Love that Pepe Saya butter as well!
SK, you should get some – there are squillions of them at Chefs’ Warehouse! :)
Your kitchen has such goodies. I’ve seen the Pepe Saya butter… I also love wooden spoons & recently picked up bamboo slotted and cooking spoons :)
Thanks ED! The Pepe Saya is new for us this month – we found it at Eveleigh Markets at Ester’s Country Valley stand!
Those butters look incredible Celia and so different to what you buy in the mass produced world of the supermarket. That’s a lot of chocolate chip cookies but with teenage boys I’m sure they won’t last. I need some new wooden spoons – to give the teenagers a smack! xx
Charlie, maybe I should send you some wooden spoons? ;-) Or maybe chocolate chip cookies instead – you’ve had a rough couple of months with the kids being sick! Hope everyone’s on the mend now.. xxx
I love the way you described why you bought the Pepe Saya butter, that’s how I feel too! :D
Thanks Lorraine. It’s really nice to be able to buy something that has had so much care and attention given to it that is made a stone’s throw away from home!
I really do enjoy these glimpses into my blogging friends’ kitchens. I must admit, however, that I kind of stopped paying attention once I saw the cookies. They just look so very good. It would be a shame for them to stay on those racks longer than, say, 10 minutes. :)
John, you’re kind, thank you! They didn’t actually last very long, and Small Man complained that they were too small.. ;-)
Serious love for your wooden spoons. I love mine and a couple of them are over twenty years old. They don’t get hot, scrape stuff like nobody’s business and don’t get sliced up on the food processor blades.
Also, I’ve always heard of lemongrass but never actually seen it. It’s used in Thai cooking, right? Sounds yummers.
Maz.
Maz, lemongrass is used in lots of curries – you bruise up the root and then add it for flavour and aroma. I don’t use it nearly as much as I should given how much we’ve grown in the past! And I’m so glad to be using wooden spoons again!
That praline has inspired me! The wooden utensils look like a great quality Celia. Have a super August xox
Thanks Tandy! And thanks for giving us a peek into your kitchen this month too! :)
I love that Pepe butter. I’ve only had it a few times, but delicious when it was had. As for your lemon bars… deeelicious. They seem to have been on my to- make list for far too long, (although I did a lemon pie recently using potato starch- that was cool :-)
Brydie, the lemon pie sounds very cool indeed! Look forward to reading about it! :)
Lemon bars, chocolate chip cookies AND butter, oh to be in your kitchen. I’m another lover of the wooden spoon–or should I say spoonssss. My husband just commented on how many we have. In my kitchen today are quite a few loaves of bread at different stages. Wednesday is always bread day.
Liz, I can just imagine what it must be like in your kitchen today! I love that you have a routine bread day every week!
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The lemons and butter look wonderful – so many possibilities – and I don’t think the lemon bars or cookies would last long in my kitchen. So many good things in your kitchen this month. My post is linked.
Anne, thanks for playing! The butter really was the find of the month, although the cookies disappeared pretty quickly too! :)
Hi Celia,
Thankyou for a wonderful happy post. I love the beechwood utensits..and you have inspired me again with the butters. I settle with a good mid-price Danish one but never experiment. I like the idea of trying a small production type as well supporting those trying to do one thing respectfully and well. Cheers, Craig
Hi Craig, haven’t seen you in ages! Thanks again for bringing Chicken and Egg all the way back from SF for us – we’ve really enjoyed reading it! Next time I’m at Eveleigh I’ll pick up some butter for you!
Such a wonderful kitchen you have. Does the lemon bar have eggs from your girls in it to be that glorious colour?
Thanks Jo! The yellow in the bars is indeed all from our girls’ eggs!
Hi Celia-
I was shocked to see your post yesterday- I couldn’t already be August, could it? I had a day to recuperate from the shock and to take some photos and I have a post up today!
I am also a lover of wooden spoons- well, really, wooden ANYTHING! I love wooden bowls and scoops and rolling pins- Treen- it is called here for collecting purposes.
The butters, the lemons (and the lemon bars), cookies,books and brittle- you have the very nicest kitchen, my friend!
I always love to visit- thanks, again!
Heidi, thanks to the international date line, I can always give you a headsup the day before, right? :) You DO have the most wonderful collection of wooden utensils in your kitchen – I especially love your rolling pins! xx
Hi Celia.. I was sure hoping you’d post the resulting chocolate covered praline.. my gosh I could almost feel the snap of the chocolate just looking at the photo. Do you find your wooden utensils better for baking? I’ve got a few spoons that languish in my kitchen. The butters really caught my eye.. I’m going to see if there’s anything like it in Calgary. Wouldn’t that be a great little hobby career for me if there isn’t:D Just a Smidgen of Butter! I was curious about the price, it would be a definite treat! xx
Smidge, we’ve demolished all the praline chocolate – I told Pete just yesterday we’d have to make some more. It’s always so popular! There are some recipes we make where the batter needs a good beating by hand, and I just couldn’t manage to do that with a silicone spatula. And yes, the butter is expensive, but I know the starting price of the organic cream and Murray River salt, so I’m not surprised by it. My boys have been enjoying bread and butter toast with it! :)
Hi Celia!
Those mini chocolate chip cookies are too cute. I love anything mini. I’m always eager to try a new chocolate chip cookie recipe and this one looks delicious. It’s funny because I’m actually harassing a friend for his ‘thin and chewy’ chocolate chip cookie recipe. No luck yet, but it’s amazing. Hopefully I’ll get to share that one soon.
And that Pepe Saya butter! Wow, what a gorgeous color. I’m sure it’s worth every penny :)
Thanks Emilie! I think the smaller cookies are actually nicer to eat, although my youngest son disagrees with me. :) The Pepe Saya butter is divine and I agree with you, worth the money.
Hi Celia! I really love peeking into your kitchen every month! I’ve just posted an IMK post and would love to be added to your list!
Linda Maree, fantastic! Thanks for playing! :)
Your lemon bars look very good Celia. I love that kind of lemon num num:). I read a long time ago that wood had anti-bacterial properties and only have two wooden boards in my kitchen. After use I scrub them with hot soapy water and leave them to dry naturally. Which is much the same as my grandmother used to do with her wooden kitchen table that was used for decades of meal preparation. I often wish too that i had my Mother’s wooden spoons, they were large and well used – a silicone spatula wouldn’t carry the right sort of memories would it. Lovely post.
Jan, you have such a lovely turn of phrase. You’re right, of course, silicone doesn’t have the same “memory” as wood.. :)
Lemons, lemongrass and those lemon bars! Great stuff Celia! I love my wooden utensils too although mine were not made in France like yours.
I am working on my IMK post and need to get it done today.
Thanks Pamela! Can’t wait to see what’s in your kitchen this month! :)
Working on it right now! ;)
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Here’s my contribution!
http://miskcooks.com/2012/08/02/in-my-kitchen-august-2012/
Thanks Misky! :)
I SO love your In My Kitchens (I am a secret lurker), but this month I think I will have to get my act together and show you mine!
Would be lovely to see what’s in your kitchen! Please let me know if you end up doing a post, and I’ll add you to the list! :)
The Pepe Saya butter is so good. The amount I can put on toast is ridiculous! If you ever need more and don’t make it to Eveleigh, you can pick it up at Metro Grocer in Marrickville Metro. They also stock lots of other yummy things made by the same people. Sooo good!
Wow, you’ve been very busy in your kitchen! Sadly I can’t say the same http://theadventuresofmisspiggy.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/in-my-kitchen-august.html – here’s my post for August.
All of our citrus was killed in a frost that ate our farm this year – your lemons look lovely!
I enjoy the visual difference between the grain fed and grass fed butter, which makes me glad most of our Aussie butter is lovely golden yellow.
those lemons are so pretty – I feel overwhelmed by too many lemons but they always seem to be needed. Just like wooden spoons – I want some new ones now like yours
I’ve written an In My Kitchen post – http://gggiraffe.blogspot.com.au/2012/08/in-my-kitchen-and-craft-august-2012.html (have been thwarted by trying to make scones for international scone week so this is the least I could do)
I will have to find that cookbook, as I am always on the lookout for good things to do with our hens’ eggs. I have been enjoying your IMK posts, as well as those of other adherents, and I have attempted one of my own this month. It is such fun to peek into everyone’s kitchens!
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