Home accessories: Foodie Friday--July 12, 2013

Welcome to the July 12th Foodie Friday.

The weather in middle Tennessee has been hot and muggy, with crazy-wild thunderstorms.

I hope you're staying cool!

For this week's Foodie Friday, Bandwidth and I have put together a few ideas for summer cook-outs.

Grilled Cedar Planked Salmon

Surf 'n Turf

Grilled burgers with Homemade Buns

Grilled Wings and Drumsticks

Cedar-planked hen

I've been busy this week with the new-old house.

The granite fabricator has measured, and we're waiting on trim-work

and paint.

My cabinet maker, Jimmy, matched the new cabinets to the old

and built housing for the refrigerator.

(The cabinet doors are missing because they're being painted.)

My husband picked out the refrigerator,

and I can't wait to reveal it.

Two pull-out spice drawers were added (below).

The range will have two ovens.

Love the farm sink.

A small prep sink will go on the island, too.

You may remember that the existing oven/microwave/cabinets were removed,

along with a portion of a wall.

This week, we're working on the baking area.
The two ovens in our present home get a workout, so
we decided to add a wall oven.
In this space, we put a microwave drawer and a warming drawer.
Our current warmer also gets a workout, and my husband
told me to make sure I added one!

It was Bandy's idea to make sure that we had landing pads for hot food--so we

wouldn't be traveling around the

kitchen with steaming pans or microwaved items.
So we added a counter to the right of the ovens.

On the left, the cabinet will have (from top to bottom) storage on the top shelf, a wall oven,

a drawer microwave, a warming drawer, and a small storage drawer.

On the right, we'll have a counter--storage above and below.

The cabinet in the foreground will have a beverage center below and storage above.

The counter beside the ovens will be "set" this week

when the electrical work has been completed.

I'll have updates soon.

Meanwhile, we will try to stay cool!

Bandwidth and I would like to extend a huge thanks to all of the great cooks who participate each week at Foodie Friday. It is always a treat to see what you've been cooking.

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Do you want to have some foodie fun?

Be sure to read about Foodie Friday's upcoming Mystery Ingredient Club.

It will make its debut on the August 1st Foodie Friday.