Display

It's been a while since I updated my display. Before it looked like this:

Then I was prompted (forced) to rearrange the display by my cats breaking a pitcher from my other collection (Taste Setter):

I moved my cookbooks elsewhere and took down the green fabric background. I think it looks a bit tidier.

The Taste Setter collection is my personal white whale. It is impossible to find so if you ever see any I'm happy to reimburse you! (Email me)

Recipe: Kitchen Sink Salad

Hi Pyrex friends, Anna here from Victory Garden Yarn!  I shared a tasty & versatile Summer salad recipe on my blog today, a little something I like to call Kitchen Sink Salad.  Like any good collector, only Pyrex was used in the making of this dish--including the Summery & bright new turquoise plate I recently added to my collection of tableware!

Pop on over to my blog if you'd like the recipe!

I hope your weekends are full of excellent finds out there at the sales & thrifts!

xo

Anna

Update

Just wanted to share an update of my collection. I'm limiting myself to only Daisy/Citrus Yellow, Aqua and Daisy/Citrus Orange and the special Green that they only made two pieces in.

If you want to see my whole kitchen check it out here.

Just an inkling...

Hello Pyrex friends!  Anna from Victory Garden Yarn here.  I recently took a trip to visit family...and returned home to my pokey little Seattle apartment with an armload of new Pyrex!  The fridgies above are just an inkling of the perfectly pretty pieces I found on my journey to California.  You can see the rest of my newest additions by hopping over to my blog, The Victory Garden: Yarn and Curiosities.

I must admit, I never thought I would find a Gooseberry fridgie in the wild, and it might just be my newest prized piece of Pyrex!

What are some of your most prized Pyrex pieces?

xo

Anna

The Victory Garden: Yarn and Curiosities

adding to the family

I'm officially out of room on my Pyrex shelves. I'm not sure if this means I need to let some go or just find more shelves. Probably find more shelves amirite?

The newest members of my cookware family are two divided dishes. An aqua and a yellow. I didn't know that the aqua existed, I saw it online and checked my go-to reference photo. I check Pyrex Pixie's collection whenever I'm unsure if an aqua piece really exists or it's just a badly photographed robin's egg blue.

Now I've got all this division to do, what foods shall I segregate?

I found this guy this weekend at the flea market. It's all white and it's not stamped on the bottom but the lid says "501-0". I don't think it will be staying with me. I will probably sell or trade it.

Pie!

I had posted before about how owning a pie plate forced me to learn how to start making pies. Now I present to you, My second pie ever :

It's an adaptation of Martha Stewart's Banana Cream Pie. I just made the chocolate version. I also found it to be pretty sloppy on it's own so I froze it and made it sort of an ice cream pie.

It was amazing.

More, More, More

Just when you think you're done, this sickness pulls you back in. I went to the Long Beach Flea Market this weekend and came home with some goodies.

I got all of this is for $20. I really like the way the school bus yellow looks with my orange and aqua. I already had the aqua square baker but for $5 I couldn't resist. It was pretty dirty with some caked on food but nothing that a toothpick and some Barkeeper's friends couldn't take care of.

Can anyone tell me what collection this particular shade of yellow belongs to? Is it Daisy?

Mac n' Cheese

Last night I was cooking dinner and the power went out. Thankfully we have a gas stove so dinner went on cooking uninterrupted but when it was finished I was hampered. I made mac n' cheese and it was so beautiful in my aqua Pyrex. The trouble was my camera was out of batteries and since the power was out I couldn't charge it. There was no way I was waiting to dig into it so I took a camera phone shot. Sorry for the quality but I had to share (the pic not the mac n' cheese)!

I'm not one for bragging but this was the most delicious macaroni and cheese I've ever tasted. It had three cheeses, broccoli, spinach and artichoke hearts in it with a super buttery breadcrumb crust. It was one of those dishes where you just throw a bunch of stuff in it and hope for the best. I'm thoroughly convinced Pyrex is magic and makes everything taste better.

Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes

Last time I checked in with you guys my collection looked like this:

When I moved in to my place in January this was the first project that I did. At the time that orange was the best color I could find. Last month I got a bit tired with it. It just wasn't working for me. It seemed a bit dark for such a happy collection. 

I dug through my fabrics (I have an etsy shop so fabric is abundant) and found a great swath of green I had used above the stairs in my last place. You can see it's original use here.

Much better! It's bright, cheery and goes well with the orange and aqua Pyrex. I've decided I'm going to sprinkle in some more of the school bus yellow pieces. For the next two weekends I've got some flea markets to go to so I'm hoping they produce for me.

Inspired.

 Hi Pyrex friends!

I recently looked to the creamy pastel colors of vintage Pyrex and my collection of vintage knitting needles for a little bit of inspiration for a new set of items I crocheted for my Etsy shop.

I just had to share the pretty photos with you all!

If you'd like to see exactly what I created for my Etsy shop, please pop over to my little blog to find out!

The Victory Garden: Yarn and Curiosities

xo

Anna

Finishing Touches

 My husband and I found some great stuff at the Long Beach Flea Market this Sunday. I grabbed two pieces that kinda, sorta finish my collection.

An aqua 023 1.5 quart and an orange 043 1.5 quart. I think the orange one is part of the Daisy but with a clear lid. Can anyone confirm that? The flea market had TONS of Pyrex. Every row had one or two people who were selling copious amounts of it. The prices ranged from reasonable (I paid $10 a piece for my finds) to outrageous ($70 for a set of three aqua nesting bowls).

Here is my collection as of right now. There are two pieces not pictured that live on another bookcase. Seeing that one lonely yellow piece makes me think I need one or two more. Just a fridgie or a casserole. It never ends does it?

More Turquoise

I got a special present in the mail today...

The large utility dish and the round cake pan...This kind of completes my collection.

I say kind of because there are still the lidded mixing bowls out there that I'd like to get my hands on but they aren't a priority right now, oh and maybe the Daisy orange fridgie...and maybe the elusive "Clover Berry" or "Lucky in Love" casseroles. Maybe it's not so complete after all!

The Pastels of Spring

Even yesterday's pyrex-in-waiting (...to be found) seemed to sense that Spring is on the way!

(and I couldn't help but add my first-ever Kaj Franck enamelware find)

Happy Spring!

Pyrex Art

I just wanted to share with you guys my newest endeavor...Pyrex Art!

They're all available in my etsy shop and for you guys 10% off when you use the coupon code "ILOVEPYREX".  I have some hanging in my kitchen and they look fantastic next to the real deal.

Thrifting with a chance of flurries

Yesterday, even though snow was melting all around us with the mild weather, my thrifting forecast called for a chance of flurries! At Value Village I found not one but two Snowflake casseroles in perfect condition! They had to have come from the same household. I love the turquoise Pyrex and I love the black and white, so I was doubly thrilled.

In typical VV fashion, one was marked $5.99 and the other $7.99!?! Thankfully, I pointed it out to the cashier and she charged me $5.99 each.

Does anyone know if these came with a lid?

On a different, non Pyrex related note, while I was at Value Village, I also found an awesome glass sugar and creamer set. I am hoping that amongst all of you expert thrifters someone might know a thing or two about this set. Please visit my blog here and let me know if you recognize this set. Thank you in advance!

Mmmm...Pie

I love to cook and bake. I have for years but of all the things I've made, I've never made a pie. Not a apple pie, not a no-bake pie, nothing. This was about to change.

I picked up a Aqua/Turquoise pie plate on ebay and made my very first pie ever. I didn't cheat with the crust either. All homemade.

The crust turned out beautifully, not too flaky, not to hard. The pie was chocolate pecan pie and baked up large and formed a crust (I think I used too much filling). Despite that it is/was delicious. I can now add pie maker to my resume.

It kinda bums me out when I read that some people just collect Pyrex and don't use it. This stuff was meant to be used! It totally makes food taste better. Don't let your pieces collect dust. Cook baby, cook!

It Isn't Pink

Hi to all my new friends at the collective!  I am a newbie to collecting vintage pyrex, but as a child of the 70's remember it fondly from my mom's kitchen. (I guess that makes me vintage too!)  I am a big fan of anything pink, so who knew I would start a collection that was pretty much the opposite - turquoise. 


My vintage pyrex butterprint bowl!

My first love has always been vintage linens - but this little bowl stole my heart.  I was out at the local VV thrifting for linens - looking like a walking closet, my arms full with hangers of sheets.  Walking by the bakeware aisle, a little beacon of aqua & white caught my attention.  I practically lunged at the bowl, totally disregarding the fellow shoppers around me, plowing through them like a human clothesline.  I noticed a few sideways glances, as I grabbed the bowl like an olympic medal, restraining from a happy dance there in the aisle.  (C'mon we thrifters have all been there, the victory of a great find.)

The total haul!

The thrill is always in the hunt, so now butterprint is on my thrifting/antiquing list.  Now if I can just find it in the pink...

Have a great weekend everyone!

A home for my junks

I posted this on my regular blog and my thrifting blog but I had to share it here too as all the pieces are one I've documented here.

This was the first project I tackled in my new apartment (I just moved from Seattle to Los Angeles). Luckily all my Pyrex survived the move and have a new happy home.

Happy Pyrex New Year!

I'm not entirely sure what the proper protocol is on wishing *Happy New Year* to your friends (I think it's safe until MLK day?!) but, HAPPY NEW YEAR from Leah @ Storybook Ranch!!

I just wanted to share a couple of photos from our New Years spread, where we used the heck out of our Pyrex. A while ago, I made a promise before the Pyrex Gods that I would only keep pyrex with the color BLUE. It sure makes things easier for me.



The clear, lidded pyrex dishes are perfect for keeping dips chilled and for storing left overs, as well as for serving.
No transferring from serving dish to storage needed!



Here we used a Blue Amish Butterprint Bowl to hold shrimps and white butterprint casseroles to hold the chips.



In addition to Butterprint, we also used a Snowflake Divided snack dish  (sushi)
and a oblong casserole to hold our dipping breads.  



Check another off the list.

One more aqua piece has landed in my grubby hands. I got this for a deal on ebay and it was insanely well packaged. The lid has a lot of caked on debris which I have been going at with toothpicks (it really works).

My goal next is the tiny fridgies, the loaf pan/fridgie, the cinderella bowl, the round cake pan and the pie pan...phew...that's it for aqua isn't it?

I'm moving soon and I can't wait to display all this in my new kitchen!