No, nothing like your home kitchen.

Nothing is like my home kitchen.

Do you even have a home kitchen at this point?

Not really, haven't for a decade or more.
There are half a dozen semi-home kitchens,
one of which you've been in.

Sigh! but, at least you're not cooking there full time.

It's like a junior suite in some hotels -
twice as much space, just empty so there's
nothing to do with it.

A place to cook, even if not ideal.

I can cook in a very constrained space.
Don't much like it, though.

Another thing the island did was it
funneled people into more constrained space,
mostly right near the action, so they felt
more comfortable doing stuff than not
doing stuff. Also there was a place for
them to put up their drinks and appies and
get a little work in as well.

So now that space is gone? People will just have to be more conscious
about stepping up to help.

The thing is that the center island constricted
the passage so the guests were always within a
foot of a work area. Without the island, they
can just congregate in the middle of the kitchen,
far from the action. Of course, now they sometimes
actually go to the living room, which might have
been part of the plan.

If there are near-essential tools that will be
in short supply or absent altogether, it's a
good idea to bring them along.

I have most of them in the camper now. (G)

Of course.

table is > one that I appreciate help with, especially for the "Dinner is served > NOW!" meals. If I don't get the table set before I start cooking, dinner > may cool off while I'm taking care of incidentals. Which makes it all the more important to have
a confederate or two lurking.

Agreed, and one that is somewhat kitchen smart helps.

There are few, I've found, who are so dense
as not to be able to follow explicit instructions.

usually happens about three seconds before I need to
use it. Murphy, I suppose.

Must be so. (G)

The one thing that's worse than lack of
cleanup is unwanted cleanup.

I've, more than once, put something into the dishwasher before Steve is
done with it. Whoops!

Arrrrgh.

You were very polite with each other, I presume. (G)

It was one of the few times in my life
that I saw someone literally jump for
joy, but the joy didn't last when she
saw that I had someone tagging along.

As you breathed a sigh of relief.

Kind of. Her lack of culinary expertise
would be overlookable if the circumstance
were right..

Somehow I don't think you would deliberately be malicious but

there's > the possibility of being somewhat dangerous.
And sometimes dangling the bait can be
kind of fun, too.

Quite possibly so. (G)

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01

Title: Cake with Berries and Whipped Cream
Categories: Cakes, German
Yield: 6 servings

150 g Butter or margarine (2/3 250 g Flour (2 cups plus 3
1/2
-cup) -Tbsp)
150 g Sugar (2/3 cup) 6 g Baking powder (1 3/4
tsp)
Peel of 1 lemon 3 tb Milk
3 Eggs

Also for 'versoffenen Apfelkuchen' (drunk apple tart). Cut in half
horizontally. Spread vanilla pudding on top, then scatter strawberries
or
raspberries, (?*) on top of that, then whipped cream. Top with more
strawberries.

((*Note: I absolutely cannot make any sense of that word. It looks like
'Narinken' or 'Merinken' - neither of which means anything to me. At a
guess, some other sort of berries, or possibly morellos. K.B.))

Source: Handwritten German recipe obtained by Pat Stockett
Translation/Conversion: Karin Brewer

Posted by: Karin Brewer, Cooking Echo, 8/92

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Hi Michael,

No, nothing like your home kitchen.

Nothing is like my home kitchen.

Do you even have a home kitchen at this point?

Not really, haven't for a decade or more.
There are half a dozen semi-home kitchens,
one of which you've been in.

Basically what I was thinking. We've had a number of home kitchens over
he years--and sometimes I still try to look for something where it was
in a previous kitchen, not the current one.

Sigh! but, at least you're not cooking there full time.

It's like a junior suite in some hotels -
twice as much space, just empty so there's
nothing to do with it.

A place to cook, even if not ideal.

I can cook in a very constrained space.
Don't much like it, though.

I know, one thing that "sold" us on the R-Pod camper was that it had a
decent kitchen space. Looked at some campers and saw that the kitchen
space was totally inadequate.

Another thing the island did was it
funneled people into more constrained space,
mostly right near the action, so they felt
more comfortable doing stuff than not
doing stuff. Also there was a place for
them to put up their drinks and appies and
get a little work in as well.

So now that space is gone? People will just have to be more

conscious > about stepping up to help.

The thing is that the center island constricted
the passage so the guests were always within a
foot of a work area. Without the island, they
can just congregate in the middle of the kitchen,
far from the action. Of course, now they sometimes
actually go to the living room, which might have
been part of the plan.

Might be, but there goes your sous chefs or other helpers.

If there are near-essential tools that will be
in short supply or absent altogether, it's a
good idea to bring them along.

I have most of them in the camper now. (G)

Of course.

We've got a good kitchen set up in there--almost as good as the home
one.

table is > one that I appreciate help with, especially for the

"Dinner > ML> is served > NOW!" meals. If I don't get the table set before I start > ML> cooking, dinner > may cool off while I'm taking
care of incidentals. > ML> Which makes it all the more important to
have

a confederate or two lurking.

Agreed, and one that is somewhat kitchen smart helps.

There are few, I've found, who are so dense
as not to be able to follow explicit instructions.

Brought up in a barn?

usually happens about three seconds before I need to
use it. Murphy, I suppose.

Must be so. (G)

The one thing that's worse than lack of
cleanup is unwanted cleanup.

I've, more than once, put something into the dishwasher before Steve

is > done with it. Whoops!

Arrrrgh.

I try to ask now but still like to clean as I go so there's less to do
at the end.

You were very polite with each other, I presume. (G)

It was one of the few times in my life
that I saw someone literally jump for
joy, but the joy didn't last when she
saw that I had someone tagging along.

As you breathed a sigh of relief.

Kind of. Her lack of culinary expertise
would be overlookable if the circumstance
were right..

Turned out, not so right tho.

Somehow I don't think you would deliberately be malicious but

there's > the possibility of being somewhat dangerous.
And sometimes dangling the bait can be
kind of fun, too.

Quite possibly so. (G)

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