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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Make a mess o’ pancakes or a heap o’ eggs on this double burner griddle from KitchenAid, a name you know and trust.
Well, I know it, and I trust it.  I’m in love with my KitchenAid stand mixer, and my many other KitchenAid products (except this one – do not buy this one!).
This griddle simply [...]

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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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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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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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In case you haven’t quite mastered that special hand position that chefs use… you know, the one where you curl back your fingers on the hand that’s holding  the food, we bring you Safe Slice.
This useful tool helps you safely grip and chop carrots, potatoes and other slippery foods so your fingers don’t end up [...]

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If you’re a child of the 80’s, you remember the Rubik’s cube.  Maybe you even solved this innocent-looking puzzle.  I know I spent some hours on this.
And if you loved it then, you can love it again now, as a salt or pepper mill.  Shaped like the classic Rubik’s cube with a ceramic mill inside.  [...]

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