There is no right way or wrong way to design a kitchen — pretty kitchens come in all shapes, sizes, and colors! Some choices may be unexpected, but it’s that sense of adventure and surprise that make perusing photos of kitchens so fun in the first place. Here are 10 kitchen color combinations that caught our attention. Which one do you love best?
If you’re a coffee lover, then you look forward to that moment when you take your first morning sip of deep, dark goodness. Even when you’re sleepily going through every other motion, if you have that coffee cup in your hand, you know everything is going to be ok. So there’s nothing more disappointing than a bad cup of coffee, especially when you’ve been looking forward to it since the night before.
Do you feel like your morning coffee just isn’t up to par? Or your coffee at any other time of day for that matter? Here are a few reasons coffee doesn’t taste as good as it could, and some recommendations for what you can do about it.
Have you ever been in a situation where you don’t know the social rules and have made a major error so off-the-mark that you want to just crawl under the table and disappear? Or maybe you’ve had someone come into your life who has no idea how to behave and you find yourself judging and distancing from them, even if you don’t want to? Please and thank you, bows and handshakes, who goes first, cellphones at the dinner table: does proper etiquette really matter?
Happy weekend, friends! Easter Sunday is just around the corner; are you cooking a big leg of lamb, a honey-glazed ham, or a batch of sticky lemon rolls? Easter is hands-down my favorite food holiday and I’m looking forward to all the asparagus I can eat, plus a slice of my family’s Easter bread. What about you? What are you cooking this weekend? Holiday food? Or something simple and springlike?
Most Eastern European households have an Easter tradition of sweet eggy bread. This is my family’s — an enormous braided loaf, scented with nutmeg and lemon, peppered with almonds and plump golden raisins. It originated on my maternal grandfather’s Czech side of the family tree, and all my life I’ve known it as houska. As in, “Uncle Ed is doing the houska this Easter.” Or, “I burned the top of the houska.” “Tell me again, who’s bringing the houska?” It’s a treasured Easter treat, the taste and scent of it mixed with holiday memories.
But you know what? My family has it all wrong. This bread isn’t houska at all. We’ve been using the wrong name for at least 70 years. Does it matter?
This drink, which supposedly originated at the bar of a British private club in the Burmese capital of Rangoon sometime in the 1920s, is squarely in the wheelhouse of the 9-Bottle Bar. It calls for four of the nine bottles, with lime juice as a fifth, acidity-adding ingredient.
When we got married, my aunt gave us two sterling silver iced tea spoons, promising I could use them for so much more than tea. Which is good, because — get ready to take away my Southern card — I don’t like iced tea. I know. But my aunt was right. These spoons are good for so much more.
I have a deep love and respect for breakfast. It helps wake up my brain, fuel my body, and gets things started on the right note. Food, or the absence of it, is so closely linked to my mood, that if I skip breakfast you might find me in tears by lunch. So with that in mind, it’s important for me to start my day off with something super nourishing. Lately this has meant a big ol’ hearty salad for breakfast.
Does this seem weird to you? Let me explain why this has been so awesome for me.
This time of year there are some pretty amazing craft-tastic ideas online and in magazines, making it entirely possible to devote days to creating museum-quality ova, but I prefer a less design-y and more rustic approach. After all, they’re eggs you might be stashing somewhere in the lawn. And with a small child in the house, this is not a project likely to involve X-Acto knives and tiny electrical tape stencils.
Easter is a reminder of fertility and abundance, so I say turn on nature’s color and let loose.
