This time of year always sparks kitchen memories for me. My hands-down, absolute favorite holiday is Thanksgiving because, quite frankly, what’s not to love about a holiday that’s all about food?! And when you throw in generous helpings of family and football — and nothing to wrap — you have a holiday with no rival.
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If you follow the Barn Light Electric blog, you probably know all about our porcelain enamel lighting. And about the special oven we use to seal the porcelain enamel glass to the hand-spun steel shade. This oven was brought over from Italy in 2013 and revs up to 1,500 degrees creating a super high-gloss finish. In fact, this Labor Day weekend, we will celebrate the two-year anniversary of the launch of our porcelain enamel manufacturing operation!
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With three boys in the house under the age of six, Sarah found herself spending a lot of time filling, and refilling, plastic cartoon-character cups of milk, juice, and water.
“The plastic cups were too small and I had to fill them up many times throughout the day,” Sarah says. “They were also narrow, light, and top-heavy which made them easier for clumsy boys to tip over. I wanted something classier than cartoon characters!”
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What is it about waking up in the middle of the night with a perfectly wonderful idea? Is it because we turn off our brains to sleep and that nugget of brilliance can finally surface?
For Katy Kindred, her mind was a turmoil of construction, renovation, and opening-day details for the new restaurant she and her husband, Joe, were opening in Davidson, North Carolina. She had fallen in love with Barn Light Electric’s Graniteware Bowl Collection, especially the creamy Jadite dotted with black speckles, but she couldn’t figure out how to use the bowls in their new space.
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As soon as the carcass is simmering on the stove and the leftover potatoes tucked safely into the fridge for tomorrow’s breakfast, I am left to ponder the perfect gift. While millions of people desperately seek a parking spot and elbow their way to the best sales racks, I sip my tea and think about something both beautiful and useful.
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While summer is all about grilling, fall is all about baking. The onset of the extended holiday season means the kitchen gets a workout with flour-coated counters, mounds of chocolate chips, and spicy scents wafting through the whole house. For many, baking a batch of pumpkin bread or snickerdoodles brings back cherished memories of spending time in the kitchen with mom or grandma. For me, sitting on the kitchen stool while I stirred a batch of cookie dough in Mom’s giant Pyrex bowl was pure heaven.
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