A question bloggers often ask each other is – where do you get your ideas from- things to talk about, post about? Here there and everywhere is often the answer.
I’m tagging onto (pinching?) something Sandra at Madsnapper featured the other day – an idea she recently ’‘borrowed and adapted’ from a couple of other bloggers
https://snapperone.blogspot.com/2022/04/definitely-not-pioneer-woman.html
A spoon rest is a piece of kitchenware that serves as a place to lay spoons and other cooking utensils, to prevent cooking fluids from getting onto countertops, as well as keeping the spoon from touching any contaminants that might be on the counter. source
So here is my ‘so not pioneer woman’ spoon rest – very similar in style to Sandra’s, complete with my very frequently used vintage British government issue tablespoon.

One of my contributions to recycling/reusing is a small stack of these plastic food trays that (in my case) minced chicken comes in. They get used for all sorts of things, a place to put spoons in use (or any other utensil) being one of them.
Maybe not as elegant and smooth as something purchased but free – if you discount the product that came with it. They come and go – one or two new ones in, one or two old ones out.
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The beautiful solid sensible looking tablespoon somehow found its way into my civilian kitchen when The Golfer was demobbed in 1968.
It’s certainly been a ’trusty servant’ since then!
The markings on the back are interesting
- SIPELIA – the manufacturer who had the government contract
History – https://www.hawleysheffieldknives.com/n-fulldetails.php?val=s&kel=896
- 18/8 stainless steel
https://www.corrosionpedia.com/definition/6416/188-stainless-steel
- The date it was made 1961 plus an arrow head signifying it was government property
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broad_arrow
- I’ve no idea about the numerals 9424296 – possibly a design number.
So what do you use as a spoon rest…..or don’t you? What do you reuse or repurpose?
#keeplifesimple