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Cottage Home & Garden, Feminine Ready Wear & Miscellany

Cottage Home & Garden, Feminine Ready Wear & Miscellany

Monday, September 9, 2024

Chef Salad -- Vintage Bowls. Hot Temps & Yogi Berra.

We have had hot temps on the southern coast of California. Temperatures hovering around 100. Not all beaches are cool.

This has prompted the making of a Chef Salad more than one night. I couldn't make/eat without proper Googling. Might as well add a blog posting.

Historian's take on it: The salad started in the 1940s by a chef at the Ritz Carlton in NYC.  Popular as a lunch salad; it soon expanded to a full dinner salad at homes across America. Branded the complete meal salad. Cooks found a way to "clean out" their refrigerators. Typically, lettuce with ham, turkey, veggies, hard cooked eggs and a creamy dressing. Creativity abound. 

The Chef Salad was popular through the 1970s.

Vintage bowls, large, were used as an individual serving bowl. Pictured are three from that era (Germany or USA). The size not the decor were of importance.





Food Quote: You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six. 

Yogi Berra

 

Wednesday, August 28, 2024

Inspiration Tablecape: Victoria Magazine and Gracious Cottage. Bob Dylan still true today!

 
May/June 2022. pg. 64

Gracious Cottage Foyer corner


Create from what is in your cupboards


Vintage, of course.


Bob Dylan: The Times They are A-Changin'








Sunday, July 14, 2024

Vintage or Not, I Need a Happy Ending About Now. What About You?






 


Story is about a dog who delivers mail. That's his job. But it is not that simple. He had challenges and fell down and cried. Thank goodness for a friend with a bicycle and a happy ending.



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Monday, February 5, 2024

Photos That Haven't Gone Anywhere Until Now. Mainly Vintage and Some Life Thrown In Too


My Curio Display: Only the Bunny on Etsy

Independent Contractors

Last bloomed Christmas 2021 & 2023



Tins are Personal Favorites. Some days, I want to live in that 'mint world'.

Meant to be for New Years. Looking back & looking forward. Not a straight line.


Bottles: Still Waiting...

Bracelets Displayed: Two on right are on Etsy

Coffee Corner: Being redone, transitioning...


"Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--I took the one less traveled" 

The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Sunday, December 31, 2023

Christmas Highlights 2023. A Vintage Mix & More From My Home to Yours.



The thought is from Mr. Grinch movie & his socks:

The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote: Stink, stank, stunk.

My thought: Nothing like a conjugated verb to warm the heart!