Tom,
If it makes you feel any better, when I bought the house those counters were formica, and due to an unfortunate oil fire in our kitchen, we were left with a rebuild that required the entire kitchen to be gutted. A friend I went to high school built the cabinets for me. I sold my sailboat to ensure that my wife got a nice kitchen...
Seriously, I could get some of those brightly colored paper plates, maybe, and serve pieces of toilet paper in lieu of any we have around, if that would make you feel better...but the fact is that you could take great looking pics in your crappy apartment with a tad of effort.
but I have to tell you something...because it's funny you posted about this...I was almost not gonna take decent pics, but in surfin' TVWBB, I was looking at Chris' pork butt article (yeah, I should have looked at it before I tossed mine in the WSM, but what the hey
), and I noticed that he was serving his meal on a white ceramic/similar plate like my wife uses...so I started to feel not as bad, and tucked my shirt in, tied my shoe laces, zip'd up my pants, I'm feeling pretty good again, can't wait for dinner!
I'm hoping the ribs and fattie will be done by then...
Just so you don't think we're all poshy buying those William Sonoma cutting boards, here's where my wife got that one in the foreground...
(our daughter making it with her brother for Mother's Day
...)
I could use a box from a 12-pak of beer instead of the cutting board, if it would make 'ya feel better...Since I don't drink beer though, I'm not sure what I would do with all the beer, maybe I can shove them up a chicken!