I Talk About Dishes

About Kimbesa

I love dishes, and I continue to haunt thrift stores, estate sales, and other places where vintage china, dinnerware and glassware are to be found.

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Vintage Noritake China | Old Fashioned Hermit Cookies

Hermit cookies recipe and vintage Noritake china

I think it is fun to serve cookies on a plate that goes with them. Vintage Noritake china often makes that easy, with so many beautiful patterns to choose from.

I know that Cookie Monster would not be so picky. Probably wouldn’t even bother with a plate, let alone choose one that makes the cookies . . . → Read More: Vintage Noritake China | Old Fashioned Hermit Cookies

Serving Thanksgiving Dinner | Repurpose Me

Serving-Pieces-Vintage-Dinnerware

Last minute preparations for tomorrow’s Turkey Day. Serving Thanksgiving dinner and found you need an extra, or different, serving piece?

Repurpose the china serving pieces that might be in the back of the cabinet, Use what you have, mix and match with other pieces.

These extra pieces can come in handy when there’s a last-minute . . . → Read More: Serving Thanksgiving Dinner | Repurpose Me

Twilight by Carmona | Dinnerware Lights Up Breaking Dawn

Breaking Dawn dinnerware

Dinnerware featured in a movie? Be still my heart!

Twilight by Carmona is your key phrase, to see the wonderful bone china dinnerware that is featured in the latest film in the Twilight saga.

As fans know, Bella Swan (human) and Edward Cullen (vampire) get married in the film version of Breaking Dawn, which opens . . . → Read More: Twilight by Carmona | Dinnerware Lights Up Breaking Dawn

Peanut Butter Cookies | Vintage Mikasa China

Peanut butter cookies on vintage Mikasa plate

Holiday time means cookie time, and peanut butter cookies are a classic favorite.

You may remember them, with the crisscross tops, made by a fork.

They are featured here on a salad plate in the Buckskin pattern by Mikasa, from the Potters Art line. This china was made from the 1970s, into the 1980s.

The . . . → Read More: Peanut Butter Cookies | Vintage Mikasa China

No Bake Peanut Butter Bars | Sweet Vintage Treat

No Bake Peanut Butter Bars

Get out the cookie jar, and make some easy, no-bake peanut butter bars for quick snacks.

Not that they’ll last long.

If you’re of a certain age, you’ll remember Rice Krispie Bars made with marshmallows, or the version with chocolate tops.

This one is something of a hybrid, to my mind. It has . . . → Read More: No Bake Peanut Butter Bars | Sweet Vintage Treat

Deviled Egg Plates | Serve a Classic Dish

Deviled eggs on Hartstone egg plate Rustic Apple

Who would have thought, a National Deviled Egg Day, devoted to one of the most popular appetizers ever to make it to a Midwest holiday feast?

We always had deviled eggs at home, at Thanksgiving, Christmas and Easter especially, and for other special family gatherings, too. Couldn’t put them out too early, though, because they . . . → Read More: Deviled Egg Plates | Serve a Classic Dish

Gold Vintage Glassware | Bling for Thanksgiving Table Setting

Glasswre 3-part server Georgian

Shiny bright glass, and gold vintage glassware in particular, offers a special opportunity for your Thanksgiving and fall table settings.

Warmer than amber, bright gold glasses and other serving pieces can give extra spark to complement your china.

Finding Vintage Gold Glassware

Check the secondary marketplace. This is a color from the late 1960s to . . . → Read More: Gold Vintage Glassware | Bling for Thanksgiving Table Setting

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