Food tastes better from your favourite spoon?

You can't seem to buy butter knives any more. I'm glad I bought mine when I did.

I had two butter knives which belonged to my nana and somewhere along the line of moving (or gone in the waste bin) one has been lost to my dismay, so now no one is allowed to use the remaining one only me,if you want to butter anything in my house do not dare to use the little butter knife thats for my personal and private use only.

absent, main dish on the left, any accompaniments on the right!

Just heard this on R4, DH was in absolute agreement with it, yogurt can only be eaten with a metal spoon, different cutlery makes food taste differently. I had to confess that as far as I am concerned all food tastes the same regardless of what I eat it off or with.

My son would be very impressed by all your plain white china absent after doing his apprenticeship in a 5star hotel he doesn't like to see food presented on anything but plain white. I keep threatening to leave him all my lovely Italian decorated majolica

shysal Whatever do you do with risotto, pasta, curry, moussaka, etc. or do you eat only traditional British meat and two veg?

Stansgran, I have always taken my own pillows and starched bed linen whenever possible.
I bought an extra dinner plate when the family gatherings expanded beyond the 10 sets of white crockery I had. It is a slightly different shape, so I eat all my meals from that one. Going off subject slightly, I also have to arrange my food in a certain way on the plate - protein at 8o'clock, carbs at 12 and veg filling the rest of the space. In a restaurant I re-arrange my food if it isn't in the right pattern.

All everyday plates, cups, saucers, tea mugs, tea cups, bowls, egg cups, serving dishes, platters, etc are plain white with the exception of two mugs - one with my name and one with Mr absent's - so it doesn't really matter which anybody use for what. All the everyday cutlery is stainless steel and the same design, so ditto. However, in spite of donating huge quantities of stuff to charity shops before leaving the country, the big tin box on the ship on the ocean is carrying at least three more sets of cutlery and one dinner service.

Stansgran

Sook,GA and Envious I love you all or should I say y'all Envious? I always take some pre packed ones to my family in Switzerland under the presence that they don't have enough but now I shall take them on hols in the UK.

I'm not so bothered about cutlery, though I do have my special risotto forks which I use to eat risotto (obviously ) But out of all our assorted mugs there are only about four that I can happily drink tea out of and I have to have my Italian cups for espresso and cappuccino. Obsessive - Moi?

Stansgran I always take my own feather pillows with me when I go away.

Thanks Ella.

Stansgran if my holiday doesn't involve a flight then yes, I do take my pillow.

Doesn't it just, Ella Mine says - "Let's not age - let's just marinate" A gift from a girl friend with a sense of humour!

Back to tennis. Be good, you lot...

sure Stansgran I take my own pillow.As for mugs I use the first one I see in the cabinet.

jings I like your mug quote, and it really does suit you

The mug I'm using at the moment says 'Mum Rules!'. A Mother's Day present last year! My favourite is a West Highland pottery mug with a snowdrop motif, bought by my sister at Cambo Gardens in Fife which is famous for snowdrops.

I have my early morning cuppa in a Cath Kidston blue spotted (large) mug, my elevenses coffee in a bone china mug with chickens on it and my afternoon cup of tea out of a pink mug with 'Crisis Management Since 1652!' written on it.

I'm always amazed that DH remembers them in the correct order even if I can hear him muttering when he can't find the right one!!

That is a beautiful picture of a piece of cheese in that article.

Oh yes feetlebaum! Different mugs for coffee/tea. Coffee ones are sort of chunkier, comforting. Tea ones more china-ish.

My mug says "Wise enough to play the fool".

Shakespeare, don't yer know.

I'm rather fond of my coffee mug - it proclaims 'Atheist and proud of it' (which overstates the case - there's no cause to be proud OR ashamed, but still...) I use a different one for tea though - is that strange?

I remember as a child we had cheap EPNS cutlery, and when the silver had worn through you got a nasty taste from the nickel, so there were some pieces which I studiously avoided, and if feeling particularly spiteful, put in my sister's place when I set the table.
Then in about 1960 my parents bought some stainless steel cutlery - Old Hall Camden pattern, which I still like, and the nasty tastes were a thing of the past.

I saw some Kath Kidston cutlery in a shop the other week and sooo wanted to buy them [they were all in different pastel colours in a wooden cutlery box] but I would have needed two sets and they were quite expensive [I'd also said that I'd never buy cutlery with plastic bits again as they were unhygenic]. Thankfully I googled it to see if I could get it cheaper on the internet [which I could] and a couple of reviews slated it quality wise. But I knew that my meals would be far more tasty if I had them to eat with [and I still imagine my dining table with that cutlery on it; maybe I'll buy some just for show but actually use my farmorepractical stainless steel stuff].