New and Old in My Kitchen in June

In my kitchen in June, there are a few new things among the old faithfuls.

It's the season for lots of good vegetables that we haven't
enjoyed since last summer. Here's new corn served in a
very old serving dish.

Penzey's Spices is always a good source of new flavors
as well as replacements for spices I've used up.
Here you see my order from earlier this month, including
Bouquet Garni, Tellicherry Peppercorns, and more.

Grilling in the back yard -- which is symbolically part of my kitchen -- is something I've documented often. Grilling vegetables without meat is new, though I've mentioned our reasons for avoiding beef and pork this year. I'll tell you a secret: we have a few packages of meat from before the pandemic and we will be grilling them during the summer!

Cauliflower, eggplant, and red bell pepper on the fire.
The eggplant became babaganoush.

Cauliflower and red pepper salad.

A Retro Style

On the table: new ceramic plates and new cloth dinner napkins, with very classic
Dansk design place mats and Dansk salt & pepper shakers that I've had for a very long time.

In my kitchen, all glasses for water or wine or anything else are the cheapest possible because I'm a terrible breaker of glassware! My recent favorite sources: Ikea and Target. There seems to be a shortage of paper goods, so we have transitioned to mostly washable cloth napkins -- the new ones are from amazon.com, where I'm doing almost all my shopping during lockdown.

Dansk -- meaning Danish -- was the trademark for a wide variety of table
linens, cookware, dishes, furniture, and household accessories. It was very popular
in the fifties and sixties, and now is a retro collectible. 

New and Old Rolling Pins and Other Baking Tools

My mother's rolling pin dates from the 1950s. Before she had this one, she used a bottle to roll out pie dough or cookies.
For some of his bread recipes, Len wanted a French style rolling pin -- his new one is very useful. 

Another practical purchase: three glass mixing bowls, which will be
handy for many bread-making tasks, among other uses.

One of the new bowls in use for making sourdough starter.

The result: a rye-raisin bread from the Poilâne book (reviewed here.)
One of several successful bakes that Len has done this month. 

This month, I also baked a couple of sweets — I talked about
this pan of brownies a few days ago.

I also baked peanut butter cookies from the recipe
in the Joy of Cooking. A classic worth keeping!

"In My Kitchen" is a blog party hosted each month by Sherry, who lives in Australia and blogs at

http://sherryspickings.blogspot.com/ To see what's new in a number of other kitchens belonging to bloggers around the world, check out her post for this month!

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