More favorite kitchen items include: linen twine for trussing birds or tying roasts. I keep the bag on top to keep dust out because I plan to have this lovely kitchen twine for many years.
Microplane for everything from Parmesan cheese to grating nutmeg. I don’t even pull out the nutmeg grater anymore.
A box of various-sized cutters. I made James Beard’s radish hors d’oeuvres the other day and used cocktail rye bread which I cut into rounds and buttered, sliced radishes paper-thin, arranged them on top and salted the radishes. Tasty!
Also there’s the other day in TX, a blustery day indeed.
Gorgeous flowers from Jim, four vases worth! What a sweetie. He likes driving to work (used to walk and there was no flower store or grocery en route) and whenever he asks if I need anything from the grocery store out there, I know he’s buying flowers! Shhh, don’t tell him I know. Always the practical husband, he also bought 24 rolls of toilet paper. What a romantic.
Cooking with Dee 
Flowers and toilet
paper — a sweet (and useful)
pair of purchases.
http://thehaikudiaries.wordpress.com/
Jenn is hilarious! We did a “Beat Ted [Allen] haiku contest a while ago and aside from me there were only two entries and they “won.”
I’ll check out her blog regularly – see above. Dee
Scrimp, save all summer
Layoffs, freezes are the rule
Just got paid today
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That’s why the roses
and the toilet paper let
us know we are back.