A Few Of My Favorites: Kitchen Edition

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I spend a lot of time in the kitchen, and use a fair number of tools to pull off 30-minute dinners, all day bake-a-thons, breakfasts on the run and celebratory shin-digs.

These made the cut:

  1. Capresso Infinity Conical Burr Grinder, Stainless Steel. Because, coffee first. Grind it fresh people, it’s soooo much better. A burr grinder allows you to adjust the coarseness of the grind for your preferred brewing technique. Size DOES matter.

  2. Global MinoSharp 3 Knife Sharpener in Grey/Black. I like my coffee black, and my Wusthof knives SHARP. It’s not totally foolproof but it’s what the knife sharpening guy at Sur la Table uses...

  3. Pampered Chef Silicone Oven Mitts. Hands down (heehee) the best oven mitts out there. Donate your “hot pads” to Goodwill. These are all you need.

  4. Pampered Chef Large Bar Pan. Okay, I have never been a PC dealer but I can seriously give testimony to these stoneware pans. I love baking on them--roasted vegetables, cookies, salmon, you name it. You only wash with hot water, seasoning it over time like cast iron.

  5. Le Creuset Signature Flame Oval French Oven. Like a little black dress, you can rely on this sexy beast for any occasion--braise your beef and caramelize your shallots, simmer your stew and roast your bird. C’est nécessité!

What are some of YOUR favorite things?

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Saturday

Make coffee
wait for the rain
read magazine
imagine trip to Mexico
fall into Instagram
listen to the rain

Chop cucumbers
Peppers
Sprouts
Radishes
Assemble greens, bowls, platters

Pick a lemon
Blend with olive oil
salt pepper
Oooh honey

Do dishes.

TIME!

Get dressed
Pick up kids
(sleepover)

Arrange shelves.
Move cookbooks, bowls
back and forth
and back, and down
and back again.
Run dishwasher
Add plant. Remove plant.
Bring it back, but lower.
Bright bowls up top
step back squint, consider...

!! TIME errands

90minutes
BookstoreNailSalonVons
(ice, beer, kale)
oh! avocados

NEW
Make a platter.
Gather fennel, fig leaves
Oh right, rain. Wet grass, dirt.
Wipe your feet.

Hug kids
clean your room

Forage for nuts olives apricots
snap peas zucchini tomatoes
pears & parmesan
blackberries
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More dishes.
“I’m thinking we should switch the sides of our sink for dirty/clean...”

Shit! Gift.
Wrap wrap wrap Bag. Tissue
Party favors: Design labels, print, cut
assemble

13minutes
Shower, wash hair
Dry shampoo
Eyebrow gel
Lipgloss

GO.