Cooking & Baking

but also from Goodwill and garage sales. We used to have more specialty cooking supply stores near me, but the pandemic seemed to take half of them. The prices were high, but I got a lot of All Clad and Wusthof.

A couple times, the kids got me a gift certificate from Williams-Sonoma. The second time I went (intending to spend some serious money), I was doing rough chores and errands on a really frigid day and was dressed accordingly. Couldn't get anybody to volunteer to wait on me and finally had to chase down and buttonhole somebody. They were ok, once engaged, but the rest of them looked at me like I was a homeless person coming in to get warm. I ordered the thing I needed, went home and used up the rest over the internet and am not asking for that certificate anymore. They can keep their stuff. I'm just not W-S material, I guess.

One of my garage sale finds makes me smile whenever I use it. A stick blender, never used, still in the box. The seller's MIL had given it to her while making it clear that Sonny Boy was not being fed up to MIL's standards. If I'd declined to pay the $5., I think she'd have let me have it for free.