What can you fit in a small Kitchen?

Here is my stunningly gorgeous kitchen (yes, I am in LOVE).  This post is on what I have behind my six cabinet doors.

I must mention something funny here.  Someone wrote me and said that I am putting my family in jeopardy by not having enough food on hand.  I will do a post on that at a later date  

I cook every day, we prepare three meals a day, albeit simple meals, but prepared nonetheless.  We also have company almost every weekend, and I cook for them as well.  I have prepared meals for up to 70 people in this small kitchen!  For me, I have my favorite items that I use daily, like this vegetable chopper (click images to find one for you):

CANNOT do without this.

I also have:

• six skillets, four cast iron, and two Teflon coated. 
• two large soup pots
• two different sized crock pots (one large, one small). 
• A large casserole dish I recently acquired from my mother-in-law (all stained and very used, I love thinking how she made meals in it for her family). 
• a Jack LaLanne juicer – enormous, but I use it every day
• about thirty pieces of Tupperware – I love their Modular Mates for sugar, flour, cornmeal, oatmeal and beans.  These are essential to my having an organized kitchen

• We have two different sized sauce pans
• AND, an absolute MUST for me….. two Mirrow pressure cookers like this:

I learned to use these in South America, they are the Ecuadoran woman's equivalent to a microwave, only MUCH better. 

Back to the bullets…..

• I have a basket full of strange gadgets that I never use, like egg slicers and weird peelers, but I can't part with them. 
• a cutting board
• a small drawer full of ladles, spoons, and knives.  I actually have four good knives
• Three good mixing bowls of different sizes. 

My splurge?  TWO sets of beautiful dishes!  I know!  it is crazy!  My Mother-in-law gave me her Franciscan Apple Dishes that she had collecting from the '40's,  There are 12 place settings plus bowls and other beautiful matching pieces, I use them every day. 

My mother gave me her set of beautiful blue and white china.  I can't get rid of either!  This set is used on special occasions, there are only 8 settings, along with the matching tureens, cake stand, and other pieces.

I just keep them very well organized, and make sure the cabinet is attached very securely to the wall :) 

• Also I have a blender, and a mixer.  I use them rarely, well, maybe once or twice a month. 
• I have a couple of glass baking dishes
• two cookie pans
• two cupcake pans - I cannot remember the word for these. 

So, there you have it.  I love knowing what I own.  Every piece is special.