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andrewducker ([personal profile] andrewducker) wrote2018-02-12 07:48 pm

My kitchen adventures continue

Five years ago we got the kitchen refitted, and it was awesome to go from not having a dishwasher to...having a dishwasher. The only thing left to do was the tiling, and we were a bit short of cash, so we left that until we had some more savings.

Three years later I managed to half burn the kitchen down, so now there was a big black patch over where the tiling wasn't.

Today, finally, I got a tiler in. Specifically, this one in Liberton. And I was recommended them via Facebook, they organised everything over Facebook Chat, and then they arrived this morning at 8:30am, and were out by the time I got back, having transformed this:



into this



Sadly, I had to make the bolognese myself, but I am _really_ happy with the way it all looks.

Now I just have to not burn it down again for a bit.
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[personal profile] skington 2018-02-13 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
Am I right in thinking that the last bit is the crucial part in the recipe - that a proper ragu really wants to simmer throughout the day, and a pressure cooker brings that time down to something ordinary mortals can put up with?