Kitchen gadgets make life easier. A good sharp knife is critically important. This year, an anonymous gift arrived from Amazon - much to my delight - someone sent me a brand new Globe knife! Wow! What a great gift. I tried to identify the sender but he/she is being very coy. Thank you for this amazing gift. I have already drawn blood due to its sharpness! I wish I was a bit better at sharpening these important gadgets,. but for now, my new knife is razor-sharp!
Diana gave me a battery-operated pepper mill a long, long time ago. Made by Puget. It's really really great and we still use it and love it. I think the batteries have been replaced once.
My newest gadget arrived yesterday and was triggered from my first attempt at home made ravioli (see earlier blog post). It was a success, but rolling out that pasta by hand was rather exhausting. Just got the pasta maker attachment for my Kitchen Aid and it ROCKS! I used it to make crackers last night and it was sooooo much easier! Pasta making next. I only got the pasta one; I think I can cut to make noodles.....
There is a recipe for poppy seed lime bundt cake with a hibiscus frosting that I found the other day. I fell in love immediately. Recipes can hit you that way. You see a picture of the final creation and you know you MUST make it!! Of course, I don't have a bundt pan shaped like that, so one is now on its way from Amazon!
A well-equipped kitchen must have a food processor, a Kitchen Aid, a blender, a good scooper (for ice cream or cookies), a hand can opener (why, tell me, would anyone need an electric can opener??), a carrot/potato peeler, various cookie sheets and pans, mixing bowls, measuring cups and measuring spoons, and a kitchen scale. I have become a huge believe in a kitchen scale! I have a cold press juicer that cost a few days of work which I really love too. The apples off our tree in Freedom make a delicious jice
Some gadgets I have not been that thrilled about would be the spiralizer. I've used it a few times but overall, it takes up more space that it's worth. I got a herb grinder from Food 52 that I thought would be awesome. It's cast iron, really heavy thing. Thought it would work great on grinding things up. It did not. It's a heavy paper weight and I don't even use it for that!!
Of course, for jam making, I am especially proud and pleased with my copper pot. It was outrageously expensive - made an impressive gift from Mike. Even he was impressed when I told him he had bought it for me!! A bit of magic goes into every batch of jam I simmer in that orange piece of artwork. It is lovely, at rest or at work.
Now that I am in the manic-sourdough bread-making mode, having two proofing baskets and a good scoring lame with, of course, that kitchen scale mentioned above, have been pivotal in making consistent good loaves of bread. Last week, I sold 13 loaves through our local Slow Foods in the Tetons This neat marketing online source has given me a way to sell my bread and it sells out right away! Clearly, Jackson needs a bread shop!!
What is your favorite gadget? What do I still need that I don't even know about.....???
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