Independence day is now passed and it's time to begin the long hot summer! All winter long, I will yearn for the hot weather, then after monsoons start, things get pretty miserable. For several years we have not used any cooling other than our swamp coolers. They really earn that name this time of year. At last we have finally cracked and gotten a high efficiency AC to replace the antique at the end of the house. Hopefully our tech will be here to hook it up soon. I almost never wish for the "winter". I really hate the cold. Much more time is spent daydreaming about beaches in Mexico, the Caribbean or Meditteranean. Thoughts of tropical beaches and Mardi and me on sailing boat, plying the gentle waves from happy hour to happy hour consumes too much of my time now. This island today, another island tomorrow........hey.....it's gotta be five o'clock somewhere.
It's been a couple of weeks now since we began teaching in the new kitchen. We love it and we are sure our students do too! There is so much more room to work and Mardi can demonstrate ideas and techniques much better. The first real stress test was to put nine little girls around the new work island to make pasta and raviolis. What fun! And, our big, new work area passed the test with flying colors.
It's been a couple of weeks now since we began teaching in the new kitchen. We love it and we are sure our students do too! There is so much more room to work and Mardi can demonstrate ideas and techniques much better. The first real stress test was to put nine little girls around the new work island to make pasta and raviolis. What fun! And, our big, new work area passed the test with flying colors.
I am really excited as we have had quite a bit of interest in our Mexico cooking vacations. I love our destination, Kino Bay, Sonora, so any chance we get to go there, I'll be the first in the car. It looks as if our next group trip will be in October. We are very close to filling that one already!
Our next project is to replace our bbq grill and expand the outdoor kitchen. I am really excited to start on that one. I am going to move part of the north wall about eight feet out to give us far more room in the grilling area. We then, will move the fridge to that portion and install a 3 bay stainless sink. It should give us more prep room for about two more students (and a lot more room to maneuver around the backsides in that skinny space!)
Chow!
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