Monday, July 25, 2016

How My Tiny Kitchen Taught Me to Love Cooking — Alien Territory

(Image credit: Kevin Pieper, from the upcoming Reader’s Digest book Living Large in Our Little House: Thriving in 480 Square Feet with Six Dogs, a Husband and One Remote—Plus More Stories of How You Can Too. Used by permission of Trusted Media Brands, Inc.)

My husband and I spent the better part of our 30 years of marriage in a home we bought in Kansas City. It had a large eat-in country kitchen with plenty of counter and cabinet space; in short, it was a home cook’s dream.

But my kitchen was never really part of my life. It was like that acquaintance you bump into and then, after a few minutes of small talk, you have nothing left to say. I “cooked” if I had to — processed frozen or boxed meals, or something I could easily throw into the slow cooker — but we spent most of our time in restaurants.

That all changed when, nine years ago, we moved to our 480-square-foot lake house in the Ozark Mountains.

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