kitchen gadget

slow cooker recipes

November 3, 2011

I’m on my way to Wisconsin this weekend with one pair of boots and a trench coat (everything else is still in the pod!) so I’m hoping for some mild weather…and thinking about lots of warm and cozy slow cooker meals!  I’ve mentioned before that I used to have a snobby attitude about the slow [...]

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kitchen gadget: juicer

May 17, 2011

Getting a juicer was beyond exciting for me as I love love LOVE fresh juice, but at $7/juice – it can be a rather expensive habit. For the most part I love it, but am still learning the ins and outs, what we like in juice (the Taster does NOT like wheat grass powder mixed [...]

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kitchen gadget: return of the crock pot

October 19, 2010

A few years ago my brother, who always gave me “funny” Christmas presents, gave me a camouflage crock pot. I believe my response included something along the lines of, “I don’t hunt squirrels in my back yard like you, why would I ever use a crock pot?” and promptly returned that present, most likely by December 26th. [...]

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canning with lucia

August 17, 2010

I recently attended a canning event at Lucia’s Restaurant, put on by Ball and it is safe to say that I’ve officially caught the canning bug. (I also got to see Melissa!) Lucia, the owner and founder of Lucia’s Restaurant spoke to us about canning and my appreciation and interest in canning grew exponentially. I [...]

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kitchen gadget: salad spinner

July 27, 2010

For someone who makes salad almost every day, I’m not sure why it took me so long to purchase this $20 kitchen gadget. I can tell you that after spinning one batch of lettuce and herbs, I’m hooked. I don’t even know how I survived without it! Drying lettuce on a towel no more! It [...]

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kitchen gadget: tofu press

April 6, 2010

My kitchen is brimming with all sorts of kitchen gadgets: large and small, useful and pointless but I’m starting to think that I may have a problem when I can’t even find room for a tofu press that I got at the Natural Products Expo West show last month. This gadget falls under the useful [...]

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