Although I’m certainly eating fewer bagels, like none,  these days, my boys still love ‘em dearly.  I do miss a nice toasted schmear with cream cheese.  If only my body wouldn’t violently reject it.  But no.
Anyway.
Real bagels, you know, the kind from the bakery, need to be sliced in order to be toasted.  Have you [...]

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My fantastic new oven burned me last week. Burned me bad.  I still have the scar, although I’m sure, in time, it will fade, as my pain has faded.
Sniff sniff.  Waaahhhhh.
Here’s what happened:  I was minding my own business, removing a key lime pie from the second rack in the oven, when OW, @#$(*@(#*! , [...]

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Back in college, in the olden days, I had a hot pot, affectionately termed Polly Hot Pot (I don’t know we called it that), in which I made everything imaginable, so as to avoid the food in the dorm cafeteria.
Polly Hot Pot never failed.  She persevered through it all: mac-n-cheese, Chunky soup, chocolate fondue, hot [...]

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I have this pot.
It’s on my stove right this minute, full of fiery hot chili…. our dinner, which will be served with fritos and grated cheddar cheese.
A perfect meal for this frigid weather we’re having here in Texas.
And this pot really fits the bill because it’s plenty large to hold all the ingredients that make [...]

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Hate scraping the bowl? Me too.
Know why?  Because my fantastically awesome KitchenAid mixer is so automatic that it should do all the work for me, which means that I shouldn’t have to stop periodically and scrape the sides of the bowl.
And now I don’t have to because the Sideswipe will do it for me.
See those [...]

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With all the things that moms are required to attend to these days, helping with homework, batting practice, combing hair, washing clothes, etc., any tool that makes life easier is totally welcome.
And this is one of those things.
This digital spoon scale measures both weight and volumes for precise cooking results.  You heard me.  This [...]

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Love clean dishes, but hate those scrubbie sponges that attract all kinds of funk and whatnot after their first use?  Me too.  And then I wonder if I’m really cleaning my pots and pans or just adding more bacteria than I started with.  Ick.
Spaghetti scrub to the rescue.  Listen up, because this is unique and [...]

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Sometimes you just need a quickie.
You know, where you don’t want to drag out the big guns for a small mixing job?  That’s where this powerful (290 watts and 6 speeds) hand mixer comes in handy because it’s got enough get-up-and-go to muscle through thick cookie dough as well as whip up delicate egg whites [...]

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No need to spend the big bucks on a huge pot to boil lots of stuff.  As long as you have a pot with a thick bottom that conducts heat well, the cheap ones work great.
This 12-qt. pot is large enough to hold enough food to feed a ton of your peeps or to have [...]

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Take all the guesswork out of those pesky recipe measurements with this handy dandy digital measuring cup slash scale.
Milliliters, cups… it’s all soooo confusing.
Not anymore with this cool tool because it combines weights and volume in one handy tool.   Measures in pounds, ounces, milliliters, grams and fluid ounces…. one of which is sure to float [...]

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