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I’m still on the hunt for the perfect mixing bowl set.
I used to own one, a stainless steel set made by Farberware and included in my first set of cookware as a bonus. You can’t buy them separately now, and I’m not sure that you ever could, but I want them. And I can’t have [...]
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Cooking as a team, just your computer and you, covered in Grandma’s famous spaghetti sauce from elbows to keyboard. Not your idea of a perfect cooking environment? Mine either. I love cooking from online recipes, but other than printing them out (waste of paper if you hate the recipe) or hauling your laptop into the [...]
I’m currently trying to eat more protein, because I know I don’t get enough and I’d like to have at least a tiny muscle left as I age. You know what I’m talking about… you’ve seen the old ladies that are so scrawny they seem like a brisk wind would knock ‘em down? I don’t [...]
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 [...]
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, @#$(*@(#*! , [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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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