Bagel Guillotine by Larien
All four of our children enjoy bagels. It’s not uncommon to see a bagel being toasted for breakfast or lunch on any given summer day. Some of the time we stock our pantry with pre-sliced, packaged bagels, and other times we have either homemade or bakery bagels, which need to be sliced.
As all of the kids are old enough to make their own bagels to their liking, we thought it would be best to buy some sort of bagel slicer to make that part of the…
Calphalon Unison Slide Nonstick 10″ Fry Pan with Poacher Insert
With a flock of fourteen chickens, rarely do we lack eggs at our house. Gathering about nine eggs a day on average, there are plenty to be used for cooking, baking, and as breakfast dishes. While I prefer egg white wraps and an occasional scrambled egg or omelet, the guys in our house are fond of eggs with runny yolks. Though they can fry their eggs over easy, both my older son and husband prefer them poached.
For a period of a few months, we experimented with…
All-Clad Gourmet Accessories Panini with Press
At our house, there is a general feeling of love toward good sandwiches. When it is make-your-own-sandwich dinner night at our house, creativity surges. Interesting combinations of meats, cheeses, veggies, and spreads are commonplace.
Although a well-filled sandwich is delightful, a well-filled sandwich that also includes hot, melted cheese is enthralling. While we could make these sandwiches in the tried and true manner of grilling in a frying pan, the idea of having a panini press was pretty exciting. We could make toasty sandwiches that would be…
Oster Professional Series Blender
Most mornings I am a creature of habit. Without the aid of an alarm, I am awake at 6:00. By 6:15 I am starting that day’s workout. Some time after cooling down, I make my breakfast. Typically, this breakfast is an egg white wrap or a fruit smoothie. The egg white wrap never was a problem; cook a few eggs in the skillet, throw them in a wrap, and add some spinach or veggie sausage and cheese, and breakfast is ready. The smoothie, however, was a…
Nespresso Aeroccino Automatic Milk Frother
One of my favorite beverages is coffee. After breakfast I brew a pot, and as I work from a home office, I enjoy refilling my cup throughout the morning. I am slightly particular about how my coffee is served, though. I like it with a pinch of sugar and some skim milk, and most importantly, I like my coffee to be piping hot. Although I like our coffee maker, once you have added some cold milk, the coffee just
isn’t hot enough for me.
Or at least, it wasn’t. …
Kitchen Gadget Review: OXO Olive & Cherry Pitter
My family loves olives. Well… at least I love olives. But I only like good olives, especially Kalamata olives. But the one thing that is always a turnoff is the whole spitting out of the pits. There 
really is no nice way to handle this unpleasantness.
So on a recent shopping trip, we picked up a little gadget that helps alleviate some of this problem. The OXO Olive & Cherry Pitter is a nifty looking little piece of engineered kitchen gadgetry.
When…
OXO Good Grips Click & Seal Travel Mug
I am a low-dose coffee addict. I don’t need to have an i.v. of coffee, but I definitely need my morning cup of coffee. I prefer to sip slowly on my hot beverage during the start of my workday. This leads to the problem of finding the perfect travel coffee mug. For a while, it seemed that finding this mug would be as hard as finding the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
I searched many a rainbow, looking for the elusive travel mug. There have been mugs made of different materials,…
Toastmaker Belgian Waffle Maker
A year or two ago, my two children, who were 7 and 9 at the time, slept over a friend’s house. For breakfast the next morning they were offered waffles. They thought it was a great idea until the waffles were taken out of a box in the freezer. At this point in their young lives they had never seen waffles that weren’t homemade. Needless to say, the waffle maker at my house is very well used.
I have owned my Toastmaker Belgian Waffle Maker for more than a decade, and I love it for its…
DeLonghi Espresso Maker
It seems that wherever you go today you can find espresso-based drinks. What used to be found at only upscale bakeries and Italian restaurants, can now be found at gas stations and convenience stores. With such a surge in popularity, it makes sense that there are now many options for making lattes, cappuccinos, and espressos at home.
Having become a fan of lattes, I received a DeLonghi Espresso Maker a year ago. I found this to be the perfect home model for me. It was very reasonably priced, taking about 20 barista-made lattes to equal the…
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