veggies, veggies, veggies

If you invite me to any kind of potluck event this summer, I shall be bringing a green salad. That's because I get piles of lettuce and other crazy greens (bok choy, arugula, mizuna[?] among them) each week in the CSA box, and I can only eat so many salads. I've also had it with fava beans, and even though almost everything I cook has onions in it, I still can't use them all.

But the CSA also brings lots of the best strawberries ever, wondeful fresh eggs, and yummy stuff we are excited about like carrots and fennel. And those apples that are like eating candy, but are already gone for the spring. And I've lost about 3 pounds since the season started 7 weeks ago, because I'm eating so many more veggies, and not as much other junk :-)

Look who's a cook all of a sudden!

As I write this (on the granite) three pots going on the stove, plus the center burner griddle: squid in tomato sauce, fava beans with bacon, and pasta to go with.

Later tonight I might make a cake from scratch -- just the cake part, cause I made the peanut butter filling and the dark chocolate frosting yesterday.

That, my friends, is now how I roll.

AFTER

Yup. There it is. Greatest. Kitchen. Ever.

It's been done for the past three weeks, expect for the microwave, which was installed a couple days ago (anyone need a big, silver microwave, less than a year old?).

There will be more pics later, mostly showing the insane amount of storage space. I think I'm going to start keeping my fabric stash on some of those high shelves (we have 8 more inches of vertical space, you know).

Also, that is, in fact, a new range. It boils water in about 3 minutes and most certainly did NOT cost $3,000. It's a regular old Best Buy range that is super-awesome and discounted thanks to Mr. Schrenk's mad bargaining skillz.

Yeah, the white fridge and dishwasher are a little out of place, but we're not going to replace appliances that are less than five years old for purely aesthetic reasons.

In case you've forgotten, here's the before, as a reminder: