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Pie birds are a wonderful
pie baker's tool. If you bake pies but don't own one,
you are really missing out on something special! I don't
have one but now that I have learned about them I definitely want
one. I had no idea that they could be so whimsical and full
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I love my mortar and pestle. I'm guessing that's not a common opinion—in an age of food processors and spice grinders, this old-fashioned tool seems a bit passé. (Unless, that is, you call it a molcajete and use it only to make guacamole—then, it's a trendy Mexican gadget sold at… Read More »
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Now that summer has finally arrived in Vermont, my garden is planted, our farmers’ markets are in full swing and we just released our newest book, EatingWell in Season: The Farmers’ Market Cookbook. Good timing, huh? It’s all about savoring fresh fruits and vegetables while they’re in season. The book is loaded with amazing recipes, such as Apricot-Almond Clafouti, and the good stuff that’s ripe at the market right now (cherries, strawberries, greens, sweet onions and radishes). Plus, there’s a whole section on which kitchen tools will make your life easier when you’re chopping, slicing, dicing, cleaning and pitting those delicious fruits and veggies. Here are my top five favorite kitchen tools right now...
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Tackle that room with four white walls and your grandmother's couch
-Jennifer Trannon, BettyConfidential.com
My friend Katie recently moved into a new house. I was slightly envious as she and I sat with another friend bouncing around home decorating ideas for wall colors and sofa tables. Then Katie looked at us and said, "I would rather get braces than go through this again."
It's hard for me to imagine, because decorating is one of those things I love to do. I love the challenge of a naked room with endless possibilities. I love scouring flea markets for the perfect piece to make the room feel just right. But I have helped enough friends for whom paint chips were drudgery and frustration rather than fun that I now understand that my passion is not shared by all.
So for those of you who have left your walls white because you just didn't know where to start, here are a couple of things to get you going:
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5 things every kitchen needs
-Francine Segan, BettyConfidential.com
Even though I've written four cookbooks and countless articles on food, I only have a few tools in…
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Who likes cheese in their salad?? I do, I
do! I really do though. I know it has a lot of fat, which adds
unnecessary calories to a otherwise healthy meal, but its
so yummy. For a long time I tried to forsake adding cheese
into my salads, but like a addict, I always go back. Stubborn when
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Not only do these stainless steel bottle openers from Poketo encompass every true thing I believe about how you should surround yourself with beautiful, useful things--especially those every day things we generally take for granted because that is one of the ways to make yourself a beautiful, well-considered life--they are also, well, the word for it is awesome. Read More »
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Sometimes I find cooking dreary. Scratch that: I always find cooking dreary. I am not a natural, I do not whip up fancy concoctions out of gourmet ingredients I just happen to always keep on hand, and the process of preparing for dinner parties is an exercise in frustration and anxiety tempered only by the immense tedium that comes from chopping and mixing and measuring. Read More »
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Being a kitchen-gear crazy, I like to think that I'm pretty up on what's out there, but the other night I realized that sometimes you've got to go back to stay ahead. I was watching a very early episode of The French Chef, Julia Child's groundbreaking television series of the 1960s, and there she was, majestic and warbly, expounding on the lowly spud and wielding a mashing fork, a gizmo I'd never laid eyes on. It looked like a kitchen fork that had been bent by one-too-many mash-ups with a tater, but, in fact, the bend was built-in, the better to press the tubers into chunky submission. Read More »
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