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you are so right! as some of you may know I am an old broad who has lived alone for over thirty years. granted, being a sailor and a camp cook a lot of that time has been away from home. but on the ships or in camp always picture the plates as to color and texture. we usually have two or three proteins, two starches and two veggies and a selection of salads and desserts.
At home meals are simple, and I shop often, but plan the plates. I can not deal with paper napkins!!! and usually light a candle or four. nice thread Cathy! ((hugs)) Nan |
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For years in restuarants of course all food was plated. Then in the work-camps everything was served buffet-style. These days at home, I like to show off my platter and serving-bowl colletion so I tend to serve family-style at the table and let folks fix their own plates. Occasionally I will pre-plate a salad or a dessert.
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((Hugs)) to you Nan! Golly we have missed you here lately, you must be working hard? How's everything healing? I hope you are pain free by now and almost like new again! By the way YOU ARE NOT an Old Broad, we have just reached our PRIME Nan Love ya, Cathy |
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I never plate food at home. I have serving plates and bowls. My family sits at the table and serves themselves. Of course when the kids were little their plates were fixed for them. It saves trips to the kitchen having the entire meal on the table.
It's nice to hear everyone requesting something to be passed to them while sitting there being part of the meal. Please pass the biscuits or the gravy or the chicken or mashed potatoes is good to hear and to see everyone enjoying the meal. If the plates were prepped in advance, it to me wouldn't be a family dinner. |
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RE: "It saves trips to the kitchen having the entire meal on the table."
Speaking of this... how many of you take your meals at table in an eat-in kitchen, versus a seperate dining room? At my condo, my kitchen is eat-in and I have no seperate dining room. Many homes have a formal dining room unconnected, or out of view of the kitchen. I personally don't like a table right smack dab in the middle of the kitchen like I have now. But I think I do tend to prefer a dining table say- on the other side of a counter/bar or island, within view of the kitchen- just not smack dab in the center of all the appliances and the action. I think I like my guests to have some connection to what's going on in the kitchen, even if they themselves have no desire to be directly involved. Yet I don't want that dining table/chairs/sitting guests to necessarily be under-foot as I make my way 'round the stove, sink and fridge... |
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When it is just the two of us, we may sit down in the kitchen. We did last night, and then played a rousing game of rummy500 (I lost). Otherwise, with guests, we move to the dining room, which is just off the kitchen via a large arched doorway. Everyone can still see what is going on in the kitchen, and I still feel like I am part of the conversation in the dining room. |
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Then in the summer we have a 6 person table on the deck. If the weather is good we would always rather eat outside. |
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