Weekly Reflection

The kitchen is a challenging room to do without.  As you can tell from the first temporary kitchen photo, I'd tried to create a space to cook in for eight weeks.  I set things up initially, and then on a weekly basis, look at what's working and what's not, then adjust.  Some of you will appreciate PDCA and hansei in action, have to keep practicing my skills.  The remaining appliances have been moved around, and my shoe rack has now become pantry shelves!  The rice cooker has been the handiest appliance, between making rice and steaming fish.  Still looking for some slow cooker recipes that catch my interest to add yet another task to the handy rice cooker.  The induction burner has been a real workhorse too- they really can boil water in 90 seconds.  It works best with the cast iron wok, so we're thinking of more dishes that we (I) can use the wok for.  The Meal Log has been updated with the meals from the past week, don't forget to scroll down to check it out; here's a link  http://talesofaremodel.blogspot.com/2012/01/meal-log.html.  We are still tracking to the schedule posted on the fridge.  Next week is drywall...