Our dining room is currently submerged under piles of "stuff" that has come out of the kitchen cupboards. All I can say is we have far too much "stuff". The thing is none of it is of any great value and much of it is left over from when there were many more people living in the house and is no longer needed. These are things like my battered jam making saucepan. Why have I kept it? I haven't made jam in thirty years. Then there are pyrex casserole dishes that came to me after my mother passed away and which I have never used - not once - and so it goes. None of it is worth trying to sell because frankly no-one would want it. Do you know anyone who would want a brawn mould? No, neither do I. So a huge declutter is going to have to take place before we put things back in the kitchen. Luckily our local charity shop happily takes bric a brac so, once the kitchen is finished, I will sort through everything and we'll take all that is surplus to requirements there. Maybe someone else will be able to use them. The only other alternative would be the local rubbish dump and, while they may still end up there, at least I will have tried to find them new homes.
Oh and below is part of the kitchen now it's been stripped of its doors and ancient cupboards. We've had such a battle getting to this point that I'm still not feeling as if it is really going to ever be completed but - fingers crossed - it's beginning to look possible.
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Now I would have taken the brawn mould. My mother used to make brawn or as it's called here, head cheese. I've never tried to do so but having a mould might inspire me although I remember her saying how much of a pain it was getting the meat off the heads.
So glad things are beginning to happen on the kitchen front now. You will be so pleased when it's all over.
Pity you're so far away, Jo, or I'd happily have handed it on to you. My mother used to make brawn when money was tight when I was young. I never liked it so I was glad when times improved.
Funny, I loved brawn when my mother made it although I have not really enjoyed any I have had since. Mind you, my mother was one of the best cooks I have ever known. She could cook anything, and did. Considering she couldn't even make a bacon sandwich when she first met my father, that's pretty incredible. I don't come up to her standards at all. People that knew us said she was the better cook I was the better hostess.
I like a lot of the old fashioned dishes my mother used to cook but not brawn. She was a very adventurous cook and a good one so we were often eating what was quite exotic food at the time, things like stir fries, long before they became popular.
I'm glad you have an outlet for all the stuff you need to offload. Yes, my mum also cooked brawn and tripe and other offally stuff. No wonder I am now vegetarian!
Yes, the captcha message now says 'I am not a robot' and when you click on that it believes you. :-)
The captcha thing is weird, Satima. At least it lets people comment.
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You don't like offal Satima, OK I know you are a vegetarian, but I loved all those things with the exception of tripe but I am assured by my Portuguese friends that I haven't had it cooked really well. Lambs kidneys are delicious.
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