Random thoughts on cooking and kitchen...

So I love cooking on cold wintry Sundays. I recently made The Pioneer Woman's Perfect Pot Roast after watching her make it on the show over a year ago (back when we had cable) and it was so good that I am now as I am typing this making her Pork Roast with Apples and Onions. It smells so good!

If this pork turns out the way I am hoping it to I am taking my relationship with Ree Drummond to the next level. I thought about maybe doing what that gal did on that movie called "Julie & Julia" which I loved by the way. I have always been more of a "country" girl and secretly wished I were Amish or lived in the Pioneer days so I naturally took to her when I saw her the first time on Food Network. I love her recipe posts on her blog too because I am a very visual person and she posts close up pictures of each step she takes in the recipe which is how I would do it if I had time and lived on a ranch.

Thinking of country...last year I remodeled the decorating in my kitchen and since then every so often I am given something to add to my collection...well as you can see things have been coming along.

I am at a loss when it comes to decorating and really have only ever put up whatever I was given or already had. This is probably only the second time I actually had to think about what I wanted and then went out and bought what I could find that matched. It was hard too!

The picture above and below are my two main walls in my kitchen. The door between them are to my mud/laundry room. I think they would look better had I included them in one picture so you could see. I wanted to put different types of country decor there or even some shelves but because our kitchen is so small not enough room was available to avoid people from hitting their head on the decorations when going out to the back patio.

This is a little shelf above the cabinets above my stove...the two root beer bottles are from our anniversary trip last year in Galena. These are the only items on that shelf. I am waiting to collect more items as I can such as plates with roosters or some other trinkets or things that would just "fit" up there.

On the tile directly above my stove, picture is a bit blurry though :(

These miniature rooster canisters and roosters were given to me, I love looking at them when at my window above the sink. Maybe it is because I love their profiles the most.

As you can see from my window above today is another wintry day in Wisconsin. 11 more days until it is officially Spring, right?