Cook's Nook!

I have been invited by Sharon of The Key Bunch to join the October Blog Carnival - the Cook's Nook! We're talking kitchens here...but we all know the kitchen is not just the cook's nook.......the kids do their homework there, the dogs lay on the floor while the cooking is going on, drooling for any food that may fall accidentally, guests always gravitate to the kitchen no matter how lovely the living room is, in other words it is everyone's nook!
My kitchen is no different. Every new house we move into has had a larger kitchen than the previous one and yet, my kitchen is never big enough! I like lots of counter space....my mom jokes saying I need lots of counter space to keep empty :-) Yes, I don't like clutter. I enjoy cooking and I need all the space I can get. I love love old utensils and cooking gadgets.....traditional grinding stones, stone mortar and pestles, antiquated coconut scrapers and vegetable cutters and so on. I have inherited a lot of brass and bronze ware from my mom and grandma which co-exist happily with Indian village mud and clay pottery, Italian ceramic ware, Moroccan tagines and Turkish bowls! Its a synthesis of old, new, modern, rustic, simple and sophisticated! And I love it all!

The nook

Brass coffee filters, copper and bronze glasses

Tibetan copper tea kettle and singing bowl

Measuring spoons and cups

Brass pots as spoon holders

Painted mud vessels...for storing rotis(bread) and yogurt

Very old wood painted Laccadivian coconut scraper...masquerading as a fruit bowl!

The essential of any Indian kitchen....the "brass masala dabba" (literally translated to mean the box that holds the spices)

My mug collection...yes, a bit freaky I know

My dachshund salt and pepper shakers

Thank you Sharon for letting me participate in this!