Kitchen demolition derby

[SmokinKat]

What's a girl to do when she's got a hankering for hot breakfast, and her kitchen looks like this:



Fire up the outdoor kitchen (aka MAK) and keep on truckin!   



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.  

[Pappymn]

That's using the old noodle!  Looks great

[sliding_billy]

Looks like a fine breakfast.

[ACW3]

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

[muebe]

Way to persevere Kat!

[HighOnSmoke]

Don't you just love pellet grills Kat! I'm like Art I use mine when the oven is overloaded. Great looking vittles!

[hikerman]

Tasty looking breakfast Kat!  Always a good sign when people flock to our grills, we must be doing something right! 
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!  Just kidding!  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!

[Las Vegan Cajun]

Great looking breakfast, gotta love the outdoor kitchen.

[spuds]

Congrats on the projects Kat,looking good!

[IR2dum]

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.

[akruckus]

Congrats on the new kitchen, it will be worth the wait!  Good use of what you got, and it looked like an awesome breakfast.

[TwoPockets]

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.

[Wingman]

Yep.  My MAK has saved my butt more than once.  It's great to have alternatives.  And breakfast looks yummy!

[smokeasaurus]

As good as your kitchen is going to come out, it is nice to know you will always have your MAK at the waiting 

[SmokinKat]

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.