Friday, January 1, 2010

Welcoming the New Year on my kitchen table-

It's true, my life revolves around my kitchen table.

Happily.

I cook, eat, read, write, blog, paint, draw, crochet, sew, 'travel around the world' via favourite blogs, drink coffee, laugh lots, cry some, discuss, enjoy my family over dinner, savour their delihghted faces when they are liking the food I made for them.

And here this first morning of the year we cut our New Year's cake. I used my mother's recipe, which is pretty much an orange-brandy-sponge cake covered with icing sugar. A delicious and very aromatic beginning trully.

It's also true that I treasure the thing I learned over the past year:
Every single thing done for the home, the cleaning, the budgeting, the mending, the crafting the cooking and baking..- its all 'worthy', and really the foundation of the family's greatest happiness and wealth.

Which brings me right back to my kitchen table which now I see as the very navel of our home life and joy.
(do you love your kitchen table?)

I hug you-

11 comments:

ELK said...

yes . yes . yes !

i just finished a year long project at the table...never had a cake that looked THAT yummy tho'

Laura said...

you have such an ability to focus on the things that matter. and i am so thankful for your wonderful way of noticing, seeing and being. happy new year, annamaria. you are such a light.

ps-the cake looks scrumptious!

vivienne strauss said...

that cake looks beautiful and I really enjoyed the post. I've gotten into the habit of treating cooking as just another dreaded chore that I have to get through. I will try to treat it with the decency and respect it deserves in the new year.

holly aka golly said...

Happy New Year, Annnamaria! I do love cooking a good meal. It is something that I treasure. It certainly takes time - but it is well worth it, I think, for all of the reasons you mentioned.

lisa solomon said...

oh yes. the kitchen in general is pretty important!

happy new year to you!

hmstrjam said...

Happy new year! the cake looks awesome!

annamaria potamiti said...

Thank you dear lovely friends-
Annamaria xx

AnnaVallance said...

Have just discovered your blog and I agree with you wholeheartedly. I love my kitchen table - it is the one place where we all gather, to eat , to talk, to create or just to be together.

marie-louise said...

Clay and bakery, I love both!

Andrea Tachezy said...

Hmmm, yummy! Happy New year anna Maria!

Sleepy Moon Design said...

Yum! ....