Kitchen Gadgets
Adjust-A-Cup
My best kitchen gadget is the Adjust-A-Cup Measuring Cup. This thing is so amazing you’ll wonder why they didn’t come up with the idea sooner. This is the perfect gadget for accurately measuring messy ingredients like shortening, butter or peanut butter. With ingredients like these, you are always guessing whether you have an accurate [...]
US Internet Shopping from the Philippines
Lani of Chibong Chika Lakwatcha ATBP posted a comment on my previous post about the fish frying pan I got from Ebay. She noted the difficulties of making purchases from Ebay as a resident of the Philippines. Those difficulties will extend to other US internet shopping sites including Amazon, Barnes & Noble or the bigger retailers like Target, Old Navy, Pottery [...]
Homemade Maple Walnut Ice Cream
I finally made it! My first homemade ice cream. It’s based on Haagen Dazs’s Black Walnut ice cream I previously posted about. In that post, I noted how the flavor was like regular walnut with strong maple overtones. Even with black walnuts so rare, I knew this flavor could be replicated somehow using [...]
Cheese Slicer
This was a Christmas gift from Stepson. I’ve used it a lot since it came to me, all-wrapped up in pretty Christmas wrap about 4 years ago. The base is made of natural marble and the slicing gizmo is nothing but taut wire. It comes with a spare wire all ready to be [...]
Pie Paraphernalia
Here are my indispensible pie making gadgets. There’s more but the others don’t work as good as these. I have two rolling pins. The black one is teflon-coated and was acquired last Thanksgiving when I was at Younger Sister’s. I forgot to take my rolling pin, the regular wooden one on the left of the [...]
Mandolin
This is not your classic French mandolin, it’s from Pampered Chef, a company created by a housewife from Chicago in 1980. They produce a full-range of quality kitchen equipment, gadgets that work, and so many more things every homemaker will find some use for. The company calls this mandolin the Ultimate Slice & Grate. [...]
Chef’s Knife
Whether you’re really a chef or just the unofficial household cook, you deserve a knife that does the job well. In the photo is my handy 14-inch chef’s knife by Farberware sitting on the sharpener that’s also made by Farberware.
Practical Kitchen Gadgets
Aside from my Adjust-a-Cup measuring cup, these three other gadgets have become indispensible in my kitchen. Yes, you can live without them and I have. But once you start using them, you’ll wonder how you ever got along without. In the photo is the round and flat meat tenderizer with a hard ceramic handle – way [...]