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Kitchen Decorating Ideas

Copyright © 2008 Gayle Christie
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You spend most of the time in your kitchen and want it to be a warm inviting place for you and your family and friends. You also, want to create a place were you can relax and have a sense of calmness for yourself.

We derive great pleasure in decorating our kitchen in order for it to reflect our own personality. What better way to decorate your kitchen than by including your family memories and history? Bringing together our generations is a great decorating idea for your kitchen.

Cooking is a great release and good therapy. If you like to cook, you like to share recipes. If your family has cooked for generations, you will have many recipes to choose from. Decorating your kitchen by framing old, special family recipes will remind you of the love you share when cooking for your children and grandchildren, just as did the generations that came before you.

Cooking and food is part of our heritage. We pass down recipes and techniques to each new generation, creating memories that will last forever. Share your favorite recipes.



When we share family projects and activities it helps us keep in touch with who we are as a family. Decorating your kitchen with recipes and mementos from your past create new traditions that may be passed down for generations. We can learn from the past to prepare for the future.

Deep roots are important and last forever. Stories to be told over and over again leave a lasting imprint on us and our children. Succeeding generations need to know where they came from and their family of the past they never had the opportunity to know or to love. It gives them a sense of self. Decorating your kitchen with family heirloom recipes can be an opportunity to share stories and memories of a time gone by.

You can turn your ordinary heirloom items into treasures for your kitchen. Your recipes should be specially chosen. Special family recipes can be turned into beautiful framed works of art to create a completely new feel in your kitchen. Designing your kitchen with this unique decorating idea, will stir conversations, and inspire many more cooking ideas, and give you great pleasure when entertaining your friends and relatives that remember that favorite family recipe.

Not only can you decorate your kitchen or home with flowers, but also they are just as beautiful and tasteful to garnish a plate and use in a favorite a recipe. Flowers are attractive as they grace our table. They serve a feast for us for color and taste, as they also nourish our body and soul.

Unless they are tainted by pesticides or chemical fertilizer, many green and growing plants are good to eat. There's the spicy taste of the nasturtiums, the sweet oniony bite of chive blossoms, and the surprising cauliflower hint of chrysanthemum.

The flower and herb garden has been used for decorating the kitchen and home for centuries. It has been said that good cooks are accustomed to using herbs and spices, but creative cooks know that the flowers, as well as the leaves, add taste and beauty to food. Look beyond the little glass bottles on your market shelf and check out your garden. Look for tiny snowy white flowers on savory stems, for sky blue rosemary blossoms, for the white or yellow flowers of mustard. The flower garden had been the country cook's extended kitchen for generations.

Create a trend for your children to pass on to their children. Decorating your kitchen with pressed garden flowers around a special family recipe stirs joyful memories of times passed and inspires a renewal of a sense of family traditions and values.

A Florage Favorite Flower Recipe:

Herb Flower Omelet

Ingredients:
  • 2 Eggs beaten with
  • 2 Tablespoons water
  • Butter
  • 3-4 Tablespoons cream cheese
  • Assorted herb flowers

    Method:

    Melt enough butter for frying in a 7–inch nonstick omelet pan over medium heat.

    Add eggs. As they set, pull in the edges to allow any uncooked egg to run below. When set, dot half the omelet with cream cheese and most of the herb flowers. Fold and slide onto serving plate.

    Sprinkle with a few additional flowers.

    Herb flowers that can be used:

    Arugula, chives, garlic chives, oregano, sage, mustard




    About The Author:
    Gayle Christie has offered decorative items featuring freeze-dried and pressed flowers for home decoration and preservation of your special memories since 1987. http://www.Florage.com For an example of a recipe mounted for display, see http://www.florage.com/gallery_181.html

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