When I saw this month's page I was at a loss as to what to write. All year I have been giving myself these calendar pages as a challenge. Just like when I was in school and my teacher would assign a topic on which to write an essay. So I really have had to think hard about this one.
Kitchen help. If I am cooking, I really don't want help in the kitchen. I like doing things by myself, working things out in my head and then executing them. But I also know it is important if someone wants to help me to let them. Joe is really my best helper. Because he was a cook in the Marine Corps he knows his way around a kitchen. He knows a dice from a mince. He knows how to cook things. And some things he cooks much better than I do.
Kitchen help. If I am cleaning up, yes! I definitely like help loading the dishwasher. Or putting things away. Since I am so short, I like it if Joe can put things on the higher shelves. I am always afraid of stretching and not being able to reach and then dropping something and breaking it. Believe me, I have done it in the past. Now I either climb a step stool or get someone taller than me to do it. And my friend, Carol, can clean my stove better than anyone I know. Boy is she good. Every once in awhile I will have Carol and Walt over for dinner and she always just jumps in and cleans it for me. What a gem.
So kitchen help is a touchy subject. Of course if any of you wants to volunteer to be my personal chef and have dinner on the table when I come home from work, feel free to apply.
What a fun post! Interesting to learn about what others like to do or not do in the kitchen.
ReplyDeleteI like to cook on my own too I guess. But for clean up, I love when Steve or Jeven load the dishwasher...I love it when they unload it too! I love a nice clean kitchen, but my biggest problem when I cook is that I'm super messy. So when I'm done cooking, I have pretty much destroyed the entire kitchen! It's not pretty! :)
But I cannot stand waking up to a messy kitchen, so no matter how messed up it is after I cook a meal, I do always clean it up!
Hope the rest of your week goes real good Kathy. :)
I agree. I think most of us ladies prefer to do our thing in the kitchen.Russ is great about cleanup but I do try to keep it to a minimum.I think one of the helpful kitchen hints is just to encourage the person.The question does make one think.....
ReplyDeleteYour calendar put a smile on my face.
ReplyDeleteYou took the challenge and came out a winner!
I'll take any kind of help, especially clean-up.