#kitchenless cooking

[kitchenlesscooking]

Spicy Lemony Grain bowl

I haven’t posted here forever but I still live the hotplate life 2/3rds of the time so here’s a new one pot that makes 2-3 servings.

Ingredients:

2-3 links precooked spicy sausage like chorizo (or veggie sausage of your choice). I used local chorizo that’s bigger than the typical precooked links so 2 worked for me. I’d you’re using a brand like Aidells or Field Roast I’d use 3.

1/2 can butter or white beans

1 pre-made bag of brown rice and quinoa mix (of course you can cook your own but this is a one burner recipe)

1 bag washed spinach

Juice of half a lemon

Something spicy- pepper flakes, hot sauce, a jalapeño- anything you have on hand

Olive oil, salt and pepper

(Optional garlic and onion. Scallions work great if you’re cooking in a space without a lot of storage for half used veggies)

1) Heat a little olive oil in a pan

2) (add garlic and onion if using and stir until a little soft) add sliced sausage and let this get brown and fragrant

3) add beans and rice mix and season with salt and pepper and your hot thing. I used Aleppo pepper flakes because that’s what I have.

4) let everything cook together until it looks like things are combined well - a couple minutes

5) add spinach and lemon juice, toss together, and cover your pan to let the spinach wilt down. I like it still a little leafy but you can let it basically melt like spinach does.

6) adjust salt and pepper and eat!

Optional toppings could be Parmesan or even a little sour cream if that’s your thing

#kitchenless cooking #hot plate cooking #one pot meals

[shrimpwritings]

Kitchenless Cooking Techniques

I wanted to share some nice lil' cooking techniques I've learned during my time utilizing my air fryer and double-burner hotplate.

If you're using a skillet, always make sure you not only clean the inside and bottom but also the space where the handle connects to the pan. If you use any kind of oil or butter to cook stuff with, it splashes literally everywhere, and that space is in the splash zone.

Hydrogen peroxide and Dawn soap mixed together in a spray bottle is a great dish-cleaning liquid if you don't have access to a dishwasher. Kudos to my mom for coming up with that idea.

Use a sponge (I recommend the dreadfully named "Scrub Daddy"s or "Scrub Mommy"s) to clean your dishes, hotplate, and countertops. It gets a lot of stuff cleaned in a faster time period than using a dish rag.

Always make sure you clean behind your hotplate as well as the area around it! Also, never clean the bottom of the hotplate because you can fuck it up.

Depending on the type of air fryer you have (I have a Nuwave), parchment paper liners limit the amount of stuff you need to clean when using it for cooking. You can get a pack of them for dirt cheap on Amazon.

I hope y'all enjoy these little tips and tricks I've taught myself while learning how to survive off of the bare minimum kitchenware you can have in a tiny, kitchen-less home!

#cooking #cooking techniques #air fryer #hotplate #shrimp says stuff #shrimp is a sad version of gordon ramsey #i have no kitchen but i must cook

[fluffy-critter]

#crosspost #busybee

[katal0gue]

I like my houses kitchenless era there's no pressure to cook because we don't have an oven and there's way less cleaning to do.

[lukaina]

Sick (nothing horrible, just annoying), still in the middle of the renovation (kitchenless, no cooking and no coffee), enjoying the third heat wave of the Summer (no sleep), fought with my parents just around my birthday last week, enduring the typical dry patch of work that comes for freelancers around this time of the year, can't meet friends or go to the gym because of the aforementioned sickness...

Things are not great, but at least I have a shower, a WC and a working washing machine. If things go well (please, let them go well), I will travel north soon for a literary event in a colder small town. Crossing fingers.

[lesamis]

rich people with gorgeous kitchens who never use them....... im boiling with rage

#saw a kitchen organisation video by some interior design youtuber & they were like haha as u see we don't keep a lot of food in here #bc we mostly order in :') and the kitchen was like the size of my apartment. bespoke cabinets. state of the art gas stove. fuck off #like as someone who's 1.5 months into a kitchenless existence please cordially fuck the hell off #not that there aren't plenty of valid reasons to order in! u don't have to love cooking or even like it! but! #why must your living situation always hopelessly surpass your needs if you're wealthy. christ

[radishreader]

When things go wrong--war, natural disaster, pandemic--all the usual data gaps we have seen everywhere from urban planning to medical care are magnified and multiplied. But it's more insidious than the usual problem of simply forgetting to include women. Because if we are reticent to include women's perspectives and address women's needs when things are going well, there's something about the context of disaster, of chaos, of social breakdown, that makes old prejudices seem more justified. And we're always ready with an excuse. We need to focus on rebuilding the economy ... We need to focus on saving lives ... But the truth is, these excuses won't wash. The real reason we exclude women is because we see the rights of 50% of the population as a minority interest.

The failure to include women in post-disaster efforts can end in farce. "They built houses without any kitchens," Maureen Fordham, a professor of disaster resilience, tells me. It was 2001, and an earthquake had just hit Guajarat, a state in western India. Thousands of people died and nearly 400,000 homes were destroyed. So new homes were needed, but Guajarat's rebuilding project had a major data gap: women weren't included or even consulted in the planning process. Hence the kitchenless homes. In some confusion I ask Fordham how people were expected to cook. "Well, quite," she replies, adding that the homes were also often missing "a separate area that's usually attached to a house where the animals are kept," because animal care isn't on the whole a male responsibility. "That's women's work."

If this sounds like an extreme one-off, it isn't. The same thing happened in Sri Lanka four years later. It was after the 2004 Boxing Day tsunami which swept across the coasts of fourteen countries bordering the Indian Ocean, killing a quarter of a million people in its wake. And just like in Guajarat, Sri Lanka's rebuilding programme didn't include women, and, as a result, they built homes without kitchens.

–Caroline Criado-Perez, Invisible Women (2019)

#caroline criado perez #invisible women #quotes

[zazamatic]

Alice Constance Austin (1862–1955) was a self-taught designer, feminist, and socialist. Her unrealized plans for the cooperative colony of Llano del Rio, California, included kitchenless houses with cooked food delivery and other innovative features intended to improve the lives of women. In 1935, she expanded upon these ideas in a pamphlet, The Next Step: How to Plan for Beauty, Comfort, and Peace with Great Savings Effected by the Reduction of Waste

In her plans for the cooperative colony of Llano del Rio, located north of Los Angeles near Palmdale, California, and in The Next Step, Austin articulated an imaginative vision of life in a socialist, feminist society.

Drawing on the communitarian socialist tradition in the United States, the Garden City movement in England, and the feminist consciousness of her time, she proposed a city of kitchenless houses. She believed that dwellings without kitchens would free women from the drudgery of unpaid domestic work and that the substantial economies achieved in residential construction of this kind would permit the development of extensive public facilities, including community kitchens and kindergartens.

Austin hoped to eliminate “the thankless and unending drudgery of an inconceivably stupid and inefficient system.” 

As the colony quickly expanded so did its infrastructure. Irrigation ditches were laid to water acres alfalfa, corn, vegetables, fruit orchards and livestock. Housing (both permanent and temporary to accommodate the large influx of new colonists) was built using materials produced at the on-site sawmill, quarry, limekilns and other industrial shops. In addition, a hotel, commissary, and dairy along with several industrial buildings including a grain silo were constructed. The soap factory, laundry, tannery, cannery, bakery, printing press, machine shop, post office, barbershop and other trades provided employment. Children were taught at one California's first and largest Montessori schools. By 1917, there were over 900 colonists living at Llano and more than three quarters of their provisions were supplied internally

Austin’s houses were never constructed by the Llano del Rio colony. Austin, Job Harriman, and the colonists encountered many disappointments at Llano: they were tricked by a land speculator; their proposed irrigation system failed; and some of the colonists finally relocated to Louisiana, where the colony survived until 1938. Austin stayed in southern California, refined her plans, tried to patent some of her ideas, and waited until 1935 to publish them as The Next Step. She was seventy-three. By then, planning for the Greenbelt Towns was part of the New Deal, and perhaps she thought cooperative communities were viable once again.

Job Harriman, a lawyer by training and a politician by proclivity, was the founder of the socialist cooperative colony known as Llano del Rio. Harriman, a former candidate for governor of the state of California on the ticket of the Socialist Labor Party and 1900 vice-presidential candidate of the Social Democratic Party on a ticket headed by Eugene V. Debs, was long an advocate of political action for the achievement of socialism in America.  To become a member of the colony, one was required purchase exactly 2,000 stock shares and to reside at Llano at the par value of $1 per share.

As a short-lived experiment in American socialism, Llano del Rio may have been successful -- but in terms of fostering an authentically egalitarian community free of racism it had failed.  states at the bottom of the call "Only Caucasians are admitted. We have had applications from Negroes, Hindus, Mongolians and Malays. The rejection of these applications are not due to race prejudice, but because it is not deemed expedient to mix the races in these communities." Indeed, the founders may not have intentionally intended to promote racial prejudice as the advertisement suggests, but offered no opportunity for people of color to join the colony.

Llano’s real death knell had come in July 1916, when the colony’s application to secure their water rights and build a dam to help irrigate their fields was denied.   By fall of 1917, they had found a suitable new homestead—an old mill town in Louisiana they named New Llano. By early 1918, Llano del Rio had been involuntarily forced into bankruptcy and most of its colonists had begun to leave, some for New Llano.

New Llano never attained the same size or level of productivity as the original colony. This failure was most likely due to cultural clashes with the greater culture of Louisiana and the Great Depression.

Llano del Rio exists today in the form of desolate chimney stacks and a singular silo in the sands of the Mojave off the CA-138 E in Antelope Valley, just the outline of what it once was and what it once stood for over 100 years ago.

https://pioneeringwomen.bwaf.org/alice-constance-austin/

http://www.baremagazine.org/radical-rad-socialistfeminist-architecture

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-feminist-architect-who-tried-to-liberate-kitchens-from-houses

https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/llano-del-rio-experiments-in-desert-utopic-living

https://www.kcet.org/shows/artbound/llano-del-rio-experiments-in-desert-utopic-living

https://la.curbed.com/2017/5/1/15465616/utopia-socialist-los-angeles-llano-del-rio

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llano_del_Rio

https://podbay.fm/podcast/596209254/e/1494268320

#llano del rio #utopian #feminist #alice constance austin

[seokmatthewz]

my friend made her own little diet & im going by it so ive loved cooking more than before!! next thing i plan to make is grilled chicken salad which im always down to make uwu. honestly, i jus wna make a meal for all the boys & see their happy faces. thats what i want really badly, yk? 🌼

I just moved home from my shitty kitchenless dorm so I'm cooking whatever I can whenever I can because I missed it :') I think itd just be fun to make them all a big meal nd hope they enjoy it !! theres so much good food to try I wld love to make some of it for em 😔💘

#asks #🌼 anon

[rgr-pop]

feferi replied to your post :

what I love about the way anna puijganer talks...

what i find interesting about this is the # of apts in LA specifically that are kitchenless “bachelor” apts for 1k a month that ppl live in not bc subversive but bc poverty

see, I think it’s important to point out that this work is not saying “this thing poor people are doing is subversive and cool” as much as “this is how people live and have lived, and what can we learn about that? what’s useful? how does the way people actually live differ from how planners are planning?” (buuuut dolores hayden was certainly making that kind of argument!) 

so like, I do get this, buut. I don’t actually think there is any difference in meaning between the tiny ass price gouged LA apartment with a dishwasher and an island, and the tiny ass price gouge LA apartment with only (as I’m assuming you mean by “kitchenless” here) maybe 4 feet of prep space, a fridge, a sink and a range. (literally kitchenless spaces are in a weird zoning space but that’s a whole other thing, interestingly of course codes are one barrier to communal arrangements even in owned urban dwellings sometimes.) that seems like a weird thing to say, right? but there are a lot of questions to untangle:  is it really unethical to create housing where a kitchen is [2 feet of counter space, one fridge, one sink, one range]? is a small kitchen vs a big kitchen a quality of life issue? and for whom? or is the problem just...real estate? is the solution to this problem to advocate for double sized kitchens and dishwashers in rent-controlled single family units?

and the point of the whole thing is: small kitchens [at gouged LA prices exploiting people in poverty, or at market/subsidized rates, whatever] are not unique to LA or anywhere with a lot of density or real estate crises. most poor and working class people who live in multi-family housing (or trailers, or other small single family units) in america have exactly this kind of kitchen, what many people would call “no” kitchen. a “large” kitchen with a lot of appliances in a single-family home is the product of wealth concentration. can we really tell which of these kitchens is correct, normal, healthy, necessary?

one response to this, from these kind of thinkers, says: we are thinking about the best use of space, so if things like “entertaining spaces” and dining rooms and patios are without “function” and should be planned out of existence, then so too are the six-foot kitchen island, the cupboard for the vitamix, the second sink, and so on. i tend to be very resistant to space efficiency ethics architecture arguments (because space isn’t the problem in the vast majority of places where inequality and poverty are severe in the united states, it’s a functionalist red herring) (also for the same reason I hate the kitchen fetishism to begin with: it’s essentialist), but I like this line of arguing precisely because it stretches functionalism in a thoughtful way. but all of that part is just me.

the thing that I find interesting about her work that is also potentially bad (but not necessarily bad), is the distinction it doesn’t make between different types of externalized cooking labor: the idea of kitchenless cities is that multiple units in a community share a kitchen (right, this is like a big part of communal design that critics of the single-family house lately like...forgot about, because they were busy fucking their kitchen) (communal living but we all have big granite countertops). but she is also looking at politically organized paid “outsourcing” of cooking labor. the thing is that that sort of situation is already how you could describe people in cities having “no” kitchens and relying on other people’s labor in the form of, you know, restaurants. 

and that topic has been pretty thoroughly covered, but I think I am more likely to see a fresh new article that says “young urban professionals live with ‘no’ kitchen now because private enterprise [restaurants] has taken over the job of giving them nutrition” (or something like, “poor people, many of whom work in industrial agriculture or food service for almost no money, have to rely on prepared food, so let’s give them a bigger kitchen so they can bake healthy pies”) than I am to see the much more obvious, basic, and (imo) important argument that says “kitchens are big now, and a totally unprecedented and bizarrely huge kitchen is seen as a core feature of white identity and nationalism [not just for women anymore!], because they are exploiting the food-preparation labor of black and brown women in ways that are now differently spatially expressed, but similarly fundamental to whiteness,” to put it gently.

tldr it would be easy for me to say “tiny kitchen rented out by a slumlord isn’t really the same as no-kitchen, because kitchenlessness is about making food preparation communal” but that’s not actually a good response, because take-out or prepared food that people who live in small apartments rely on is a privatized version of exactly that. 

also I’m wondering how she positions the “almost no-kitchen” that she herself has. would we have a kitchenette situation in a semi-communal food preparation situation, for snacking and eating meals that have already been prepared elsewhere? this is just a dorm now nvm my question

#interiors #food #dorms are a good idea in that sense #but god entertaining spaces are a human right

[kitchenlesscooking]

Protein heavy quesadillas

Hardware: a skillet and hot plate, spoon and kitchen knife

Ingredients:

Corn tortillas (the small ones)

Canned refried beans of your choice (I like the 366 vegan ones with chili and lime)

Shredded cheese (or cheese substitute)

Salsa of choice

Avocado

Waht do:

Heat your skillet to medium

1. Spread a tortilla with a generous amount of your beans straight out of the can and put tortilla side down in the skillet

2. Top with cheese - a little less than you think you need because it spread as it melts

3. Toss on another tortilla and wait until the cheese is melted enough that it sticks

4. Flip. The tortilla that was face down should be toasted and little crisp.

5. Wait a few minutes and remove from pan

6. Repeat until you have as many little bean and cheese quesadillas as you want!

Serve with avocado cubes and salsa

Make it fancy with fresh lime and sour cream (or sour cream substitute) and cilantro if you don’t have soap gene

How to make avocado cubes:

Look for a YouTube video because I’m not going to explain this well

1. Run your knife around the avocado the long way around and twist

2. You should have two halves 🥑 like this

3. Take the side with out the pit and draw a grid in the avocado with the top of your knife without piercing the skin on the other side

4. Gently squeeze the avocado half out over your plate and you should have cubes and little moosh

5. Remove pit from other half and repeat (serious go look this up on YouTube because there are really good ways to take the pit out but every time I tried typing it up the instructions would have resulted in serious injuries. It needs a tutorial)

#kitchenless cooking #cooking #hot plate cooking #food #tex mex #easy meals #one pot cooking

[drybranmuffin]

i live in a kitchenless dorm but i’m about to walk to the store and buy dried pasta to try and cook in/with my tea kettle. innovation

#i hope you know you follow a moron

[parapoesis]

Kitchenless City

Seminar with Anna Puigjaner (MAIO) 29 May – 2 June 2017

This workshop will explore signs of daily domestic collectivity that go beyond the limits of the house itself and blurred the domestic and the urban sphere, with an special interests on collective kitchens and other types of collective domestic food production and consumption. Through that exploration, we will try to understand the diverse political and economical agendas behind these phenomena, and its consequences in the built environment.

Meanwhile collective kitchens and kitchenless living have been popularly known by its communist character, collective architecture is apolitical, so shared spaces lacked, per se, of a political agenda. It has been sometimes used as a political tool but as Aldo Rossi claims, form cannot be political per se, in fact, it can only be re-politicized again and again, over the course of time, in a never-ending, recurring cycle.

For instance, long before Kommunalki appeared in the Soviet Union, there was a time in New York, at the verge of the XIX C., when housing had also collective spaces and services. At that time the house was designed, not as a single entity, but as a set of connected fragments that could change depending on the need, on the demand. The kitchen was optional as the rest of the rooms and sometimes it was left apart, kitchenless. And in opposition to Kommunalki, this North American typology lacked of a political agenda but it had a pure commercial aim.

This typology between apartment and hotel was quite successful. It not only reduced significantly the costs of living but also eliminated the annoyance of housekeeping, and consequently redefined the role of women at home. Life in these new apartments, therefore, constituted at some point an alternative that had more to do with increasing comfort than lowering costs.

Fortunately, despite the decay of the newyorker kitchenless typology, the phenomena of communal services was not only an American trend. The typology has appeared in different contexts and answering to different needs in an incredible manner. In the midst of the actual global crisis, the rise of pooling-economies is having an impact in our domestic sphere as well, and collective cooking seems to have a renewed interest for different economical and political agendas.

#seminars #Anna Puigjaner #MAIO #Kitchenless City

[dinneratsheilas]

Dinner at Sheila’s Turned 8!

Where does the time ago?  This week marks the 8th anniversary of my      Dinner at Sheila’s Blog.  

There were times over these past years where I considered giving it up...for instance, in 2013 when we moved from Maryland to California, and it was 4 months till we were in our home and I had access to my computer.

 I could no longer take photos with my digital camera and download them!  And there was the small matter that for the first month I was kitchenless, cause we were staying in a hotel. 

For the next 3 months we were living in 2 different rentals because I was desperate to have a kitchen again! 

When our house was still not ready we needed to find another place to live for what turned out to be another 6 weeks!

So with some determination, and the use of my phone camera, (I never did go back to the digital camera), I was able to continue my blog, but only because of help from my son in LA. 

Here’s how it would go...I would email him the text and photos of what I was blogging and he would post it via his computer. 

He’s also been the reason this blog hasn’t bit the dust many times over the years due to my frustration , craziness, tearing my hair out over some technical glitch. 

 He always comes through for me, and is only a phone call or text away, no matter the hour, as only he knows so well. (and he still loves me!).

Although I have threatened to give it up at times, I never seriously considered it because I truly have found it rewarding in so many ways. 

I appreciate those of you who have been reading and following it, or just referencing it for a recipe more than you know. Many thanks!

Since I’ve been going down memory lane I thought I would include the first entry I wrote in July of 2010..

After much thought and much more prodding from my husband and  sons, I am beginning my blog. They assure me there are many out there who will be interested in what I have to offer, so here goes.  

The focus will be on what has been my passion for as many years as I can remember…. feeding people.  It will cover entertaining ideas, with an emphasis on cooking and baking.  I’ll also include ideas for gardening, interior design, and decorating with special attention to the seasons and holidays…all the things that through the years of raising our family have helped to transform our HOUSE, be it a furnished apartment in Tallahassee, Florida,  a second floor walk-up in a six flat building in Chicago, a three bedroom house in the Chicago burbs, or our current house in the DC area, (and currently since 2013 our home in downtown San Luis Obispo, California)  into a HOME.

I wrote my first entry last January when I intended to begin this blog, but didn’t.  For whatever reasons…procrastination, nervousness about being a “blogger”, or lack of confidence in my abilities …I have successfully overcome them and have decided to seize the day!  So here goes, and I hope you’ll have as much fun reading it as I think I will writing it.

So in closing this post as I begin my 9th year of Dinner at Sheila’s I just want to say it has been great fun, but I have also learned a lot, and hopefully helped some of you along the way.

Thanks again for reading,

Sheila

#Miscellaneous #Dinner at Sheilas

[jettkindlerau]

Imagining Kitchenless Future with Flexible Cooking Set Concept

With less and less space available, how about creating a living space without a kitchen?. This flexible cooking set concept is a special project that wants to encourage to envision a kitchenless future. This project allows you to set up your kitchen wherever you are, it won’t limit you in a certain space to cook […]

Imagining Kitchenless Future with Flexible Cooking Set Concept is originally posted on Tuvie - Modern Industrial Design

[ethan-kang-prd]

#graduates