What's on your kitchen countertop?

What is the one thing - not an appliance - that's always on your kitchen counter?

I realized I always have a big bowl of onions there, no matter what house I'm in. Today, we have two kinds - Maui and yellow.

I'm feeling nosy today.

I have my collection of antique Swedish cookbooks and some pottery pieces.

Cheers!

it's about a 1/4 bushel wire basket holding the Blessed Trinity....taters, onions, and fresh garlic....

and an empty box of Multi grain Cheerio's my daughter didn't throw away this morning. I also have a bowl of lemons and a bottle of dishwashing liquid.

A basket with tomatoes from my garden. That basket still has a few in it. Early Girls start producing in late June around here and hang in with a few fruits until Christmas. The tomatoes are small and not as good by then, but they're still better than store bought, by gum.

....to hate people whose growing season extends past your first blizzard.....

:evilgrin:

But this is why my very modest two bedroom, one bath in a not-so-hot part of Oaktown cost me $300,000 three years ago. It would cost a lot more now. :)

a few onions (most are in the garage), shallots, 3 kinds of oil, butter, salt tub & the pepper grinder.

Everything's clean (no food or dirty dishes), but thanks to complete insanity at work (= no time for me), my counters are still recovering from Thanksgiving.

my new sink was FULL :rofl:

but Mr Ketchup and I dug it out a couple hours ago and it's all better now hehehehe

eom

my copper bread box and matching cookie jar, a stand with a couple pounds of red potatos in one bowl, red onion and lemons in the other, my espresso machine and beans in a glass jar and my Stand mixer

on the other side of the sink, two knive blocks, a pizza peel, a cheese board and three, no, make that 4 cutting boards

I always have a knive block whereever I've lived :shrug:

pretty much looks like this still, except I've totally upgraded the pepper mills and salt shakers the copper side

My counters are so cluttered it's even starting to bother ME!..

a few of us completely de-cluttered our kitchens. Eleny started it so innocently .......

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=236&topic_id=2646#2772

The Peninsula has the empty bread box and cooling rack, bread knife and french butter dish.

Up by the stove there's a bottle of olive oil with a pour spout, ditto tamari, the salt cellar (Alton Brown's, in fact - that thing is the most useful piece of kitchen hardware I've bought in years), the kitchen scale and a spray bottle of baker's release. There is also a glass vacuum jar with oats in it and a ceramic vacuum jar with bread crumbs.

Between the stove and the sink is a glass jar of utensils, a knife block and glass jar of cream of wheat.

Between the sink and the laundry sink is where the stand mixer, the hot water pot and the rolling pins live.

Across from the peninsula, under the china cabinet is the coffee station, where three french presses (one for tea only), a half dozen cans of tea, a grinder and various other implements of caffeine consumption reside.

Everything is clean, pushed back against the wall and tidy, but many people would consider it cluttered. Oh, well, too bad for them. I'm 5'2" and the lowest surface of my cabinets is at eye level for me; I can't reach the upper shelves without a step-stool, and frankly, my knees don't take well to living on step-stools. Perversely, my knees also don't do well with the under counter storage, either. So, important things live on the counter.

and a Le Creuset container with spatulas, etc.

Let's see, tonight it's Gold Medal unbleached all-purpose, King Arthur bread flour, an empty container for King Arthur all-purpose, and (oops, this makes 4) a bit of Gold Medal bread flour. Also so rice flour. There are more in the pantry...

:crazy:

Coffee pot, bowl of tomatoes, olive oil and wine vineger pourers, peppermill, salt pig and knife block.

OK now you have to snap a pic and show us this creature :rofl:

It's just a little salt gizmo for my kosher salt. I guess it's really called a salt cellar. You can get them in little pig shapes from the King Arthur catalog.



I'll snap a pic tomorrow. :) I'm heading to LaLa Land.

dog biscuits, fish bowl, medicine, bag of apples, telephone, cell phone charger, piles of music CDs, roll of tape, dishware we're saving to return to someone.

I have a ton of counterspace, but is it any wonder I never have room to work?

I have a dishwasher that has my stand mixer and toaster, and a microwave cart that holds, well, my microwave.

I have a crappy center island that used to have a knife block on it, but as soon as the toddler got tall enough to reach, I put them up high in the pantry.

The top of my fridge ALWAYS has onions, and often has potatoes and bananas.

Mexican bowl with a chip in it next to the cutting board to receive trimmings for the compost.

They are covered with two cutting boards that have lips to hold them in place and a "back splash". This workspace is covered with a cookbook holder, two large wire bowls with onions, garlic, 2 butternut squash and 2 sweet taters.

On the side, lives a knife block, a box of Rooibos tea, a bowl with a chicken breasts thawing for dinner, several cannisters with flour, sugar etc and a bag of Masa Harina.

I have 5 dogs who get in the trash when I'm at work.

of organic sugar and my utensil caddy. Oh, and paper towel holder.

My appliances that are out all the time - microwave, coffee pot, Kitchen Aid mixer.

a butter dish (I hate hard butter, too, so it stays on the counter), and a container thingy with spatulas, whisks, chopsticks, and wooden spoons. Oh, and a microwave, but that's tucked up in a corner, so I don't even think of it being there. All this stuff is right next to the stove (I have about 12 inches of counter between the stove and the fridge that holds all the utensils, and about 10 inches between microwave and stove on the other side where I tuck away the salt, pepper, olive oil, and butter.)

Everything else is hidden and out of the way; though way on the opposite side of the sink, I keep the coffee maker and coffee grinder out on the counter as well. It just isn't worth putting them away when I'm done.

And that's over about 15 feet of counter.

Like I said, I hate clutter.