Let's Talk BBQ
FORUM SPONSORS => MAK Grills => Topic started by: SmokinKat on March 02, 2015, 06:52:48 PM
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What's a girl to do when she's got a hankering for hot breakfast, and her kitchen looks like this:
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Fire up the outdoor kitchen (aka MAK) and keep on truckin!
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This was some homemade sausage from Dennis at my work, seasoned with salt, black pepper, thyme, basil, rosemary, and marjoram... It smelled good enough that the neighbors actually came over at 7:30 AM on Sunday morning because they had to find out what we were cooking!! And SOFTLY scrambled eggs from our chickens. Divine!! Too bad it was below freezing outside, we had to make a picnic on the floor to eat it. :)
I can't wait for the dust to settle and my new kitchen to be done, but the MAK's been a lifesaver this month. Would be stuck eating microwave burritos and cup o noodles otherwise. :)
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That's using the old noodle! Looks great
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Looks like a fine breakfast.
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Improvise! Improvise! Improvise!
I keep telling my neighbors that my MAK holds its temperatures better than my house oven. I have used it several times when I didn't have enough room in my house oven.
Art
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Way to persevere Kat!
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Don't you just love pellet grills Kat! I'm like Art I use mine when the oven is overloaded. Great looking vittles!
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Tasty looking breakfast Kat! Always a good sign when people flock to our grills, we must be doing something right! :D
Oh boy a kitchen renovation! All I can tell you is....be patient and in the end it will be worth it. But it's not easy. We went thru this three years ago, and we are finally starting to talk to each other again! :P Just kidding! ;D But there were a few moments for both of us. The kitchen is the epi-center of our homes, so it's the most difficult room to renovate. Good luck Kat!
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Great looking breakfast, gotta love the outdoor kitchen. ;)
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Congrats on the projects Kat,looking good!
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Kat, congrats on the new kitchen. Those type of projects are hard to deal with when under construction, but so wonderful when they are finished. Hope it turns out great.
The Mak really is versatile. I bet breakfast tasted wonderful.
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Congrats on the new kitchen, it will be worth the wait! Good use of what you got, and it looked like an awesome breakfast.
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That looks good! We just got through with a kitchen remodel and if it had not been for my Camp Chef 3 burner stove and my grills on the deck we would have starved.
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Yep. My MAK has saved my butt more than once. It's great to have alternatives. And breakfast looks yummy!
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As good as your kitchen is going to come out, it is nice to know you will always have your MAK at the waiting :)
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Thanks all! Glad to hear everyone has survived their own remodels!
It's going to be a BIG improvement to our little 40's farmhouse kitchen! This is just phase 1 with tearing out walls and moving staircases, the finish work will be sometime down the road. But having some elbow room after trying to work in that little space with gangly James is going to be DIVINE.
So far so good with stress (knock on drywall.) We're planning a wedding and honeymoon for this summer too. Apparently that just wasn't enough fun and excitement, so we decided to remodel all the floors and then the kitchen on top of that. Why not. ::) Biggest problem so far is keeping the dang dogs from eating the plaster chunks off the exposed lathe walls! Punks! ???
James took some convincing that building the MAK into the inside kitchen just wasn't going to be feasible. :) (Even WITH a really, really big exhaust fan.) But I let him know he's more than welcome to get going on a full outdoor kitchen for me! :) The MAK has come in SO HANDY for so many things already-- No way my new home oven is going to steal all the attention. :)
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Thanks all! Glad to hear everyone has survived their own remodels!
It's going to be a BIG improvement to our little 40's farmhouse kitchen! This is just phase 1 with tearing out walls and moving staircases, the finish work will be sometime down the road. But having some elbow room after trying to work in that little space with gangly James is going to be DIVINE.
So far so good with stress (knock on drywall.) We're planning a wedding and honeymoon for this summer too. Apparently that just wasn't enough fun and excitement, so we decided to remodel all the floors and then the kitchen on top of that. Why not. ::) Biggest problem so far is keeping the dang dogs from eating the plaster chunks off the exposed lathe walls! Punks! ???
James took some convincing that building the MAK into the inside kitchen just wasn't going to be feasible. :) (Even WITH a really, really big exhaust fan.) But I let him know he's more than welcome to get going on a full outdoor kitchen for me! :) The MAK has come in SO HANDY for so many things already-- No way my new home oven is going to steal all the attention. :)
Good luck with the wedding and honeymoon plans, I'd offer advice but I didn't do anything besides say "yes" and "that sounds good." I did give encouragement when she second guessed herself on something, for example, "don't worry it is going to a blast, everyone will have a good time!" and "what really matter is if we enjoy ourselves and have fun, oh and you say 'I do' at some point during the wedding :P "
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Thanks Aruckus! Yeah, we're shooting for very low stress kind of a party. There will be good beer, good food, and good people-- beyond that I don't care a whole heck of a lot! Plus I can always spike some wine with Xanax if the mothers are getting out of control! ;) :D
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Congrats on the upcoming nuptials, Kat and James. I think that this wedding will be the second letstalkbbq wedding with Smoke and Wendy being the first. Who's next?
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WHEW! Finally have the contractors done with their part of the remodel-- now to sweep up the dust and get some finish work going. Minor details like floors, cabinets, counters.... piece of cake. :)
Here is the original space,
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Here it is with some walls knocked out and the staircase to downstairs being deleted.
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And here we go with a new doorway, and space for the fridge to be INSIDE the kitchen for once!
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We also opened up the wall between the kitchen and livingroom, and will eventually put a breakfast bar with stools in this space. :) They did a great job of matching the original arches for the house-- it makes it feel SO much bigger!
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Hardly noticed being w/o a stove for a month! Although I am looking forward to a meal that doesn't have at least trace amounts of drywall dust in it... :)
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Nice :)
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As long as you and James are still speaking...you did well! ;D Remodels and - building houses is hard of "domestic tranquility"...... ;)
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Kat, the remodel is looking great, nice space changes. Looks like you guys put some real thought into it and I think it takes as much thought as building sometimes. WTG!
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Very nice Kat..love the open spaces. Pam .☆´¯`•.¸¸. ི♥ྀ.
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Looks like the remodel is going according to plan, and that breakfast on the MAK is making me hungry!
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Kat it sure looks like your kitchen has nine lives ??? ;)
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Nice breakfast on your Mak!!! Gotta love those pellet smokers!!! Don
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Looking good so far Kat!