Kitchenware

Over the past two months. Kitchenware, including some nice salt and pepper shakers from Pier One Imports, a fine kitchen knife from Farberware, and a salad dryer from ... well, from the grey box (it doesn't say on it, the salad dyer, where it's from). All of you reading this know what a salad dryer is, yes? It's a little plastic tub within a plastic tub you put your wet salad in and then you spin the knob on top that spins the salad around inside til it's dry. Drying salad without a salad dryer would be like slicing cheese without a cheese plane i.e. I don't know how you'd do it otherwise as they're all I've ever known as far as dealing with wet lettuce and unsliced cheese. I love cheese planes. And I love salad dryers. The truth is I hadn't made a salad in decades until I got this salad dryer i.e. I haven't had a salad dryer til now. (Good thing I've had a cheese plane all my adult life, otherwise - no cheese in my adult life.) Drying lettuce in this salad dryer brought back memories from my childhood of ... well, drying lettuce in a salad dryer. The point besides these reflections on my arrested development is that I used all of these kitchenware this evening to make the Soup O' The Week (vegetable this week), and as a footnote the fine kitchen knife and the salad dryer are now drying in a dish rack I got from the grey box sometime over the past two months, too. Thanks, grey box.

All for now, except to say that the previously promised slight broadening of scope of the scope of this blog coming soon. It'll be worth the wait.