Having guests over for summer entertaining means that not only is the food important, but also the drinks. Since one can of carbonator produces 60 litres of fizzy drinks, you'll have enough for a party-worth of carbonated beverages. The SodaStream Fizz includes a Fizz Chip to measure the amount of gas in the cylinder and the amount of carbonation in the beverages. ...
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Korento Collection from Ittala — Spring & Summer Dinnerware
To really celebrate the start of summer, I like the idea of getting out some summery dishes for entertaining. The new Korento collection from Ittala is designed by Klaus Haapaniemi. I can imagine myself serving a light summer meal on this beautiful dishware, then inviting guests outside to enjoy a coffee and some dessert on the balcony/backyard. ...
A Volume and Weight Scale — Deserted Island Kitchen # 8
At home we have nice thick metal measuring cups and spoons galore—they rattle around in our cupboards and drawers like a pocket-ful of change. But, just like all those pennies that you can never seem to spend, we hardly ever use them. Instead, we measure by weight: it makes it easy to double, halve, and quickly throw together, recipes from around the world. We couldn't live without our kitchen scale, which lives on our counter with an index card full of conversion factors taped to the ...
Earth Day #Giveaway US Only $35 Eco-Foil Recycled Aluminum Pans {Closed}
Thank You for taking a part in the Earth Day Event and supporting eco-conscious living. This event is sponsored by Eco-Foil and co-hosted by Way 2 Good Life and She Promotes The event takes place from April 12 at 11 PM EST and ends on April 22 at 11.59 PM EST There are so many companies out there that help the environment - why not get to know more about them? Learn about great businesses, their products, and win some giveaways. Over 60 bloggers have prizes valued at $25+. Make sure to visit ...
Eco-Foil Recycled Aluminum Kitchen Ovenware
Getting people to take recycling and the environment seriously has been something on my agenda for at least the last decade. I'm happy to see more products like this set of oven pans from Eco-Foil. The line of products are eco-friendly and made in the USA. I received a variety of sizes to check out but could only think of one thing that I really wanted to test out—sheet cake! I planned on putting together a chocolate sheet cake with frosting and using the plastic lid (included) to make it ...
An Oil Brush — Deserted Island Kitchen Item #7
Alright, alright, we have a couple of heavy cast-iron pans on our deserted island kitchen list already—clearly we're going to get a work-out lugging our stuff there! Sadly they would be absolutlely worthless without some oil and a brush. It's true that when seasoned these pots have top-notch release, but stuff is still going to stick without a little grease. We don't really have anything against a little fat in our diets—the average person needs 60g a day, and as vegetarians, that's a number we ...
A Flat Pan – Deserted Island Kitchen item #6
We eat flatbread at least once a day—crispy many layered parathas, crépes stuffed with fruit or made savoury, and delicious whole wheat chapati are some of our favourite things to eat. Our favourite thing to cook any of these things on is a flat cast-iron or carbon-steel griddle. Cooking in a walled skillet, it's hard to get your spatula under what you're cooking—and things also hold on to too much moisture, which means they may cook unevenly. We bought our first flat pan when Tazim and I ...
WMF 6.5 l Pressure Cooker — Deserted Island Kitchen #5
We've written about pressure cookers before. Perhaps a little obsessively—check out this series. So it's probably not a surprise that a pressure cooker is something that we'd drag with us, even all the way to a deserted island. In fact, we carry one everywhere, we even have a smaller version that we take camping—they're great for cooking at altitude. It's our go-to pot for everything from soup to chickpea curry. Because pressure-cookers are a closed system, they're an extremely fast and ...
A “Fuzzy Logic” Rice Cooker – Deserted Island Kitchen #4
Though over the years we've spoiled ourselves with conveniences—from stand mixer to mini-chopper, there aren't a lot of kitchen appliances we couldn't live without. But I don't know what we'd do without our "Fuzzy Logic" rice-cooker. We bought ours in Chinatown in 2001. 10 years, several countries, and 8 moves later, it's still churning out perfect rice. Right, you're looking at me funny—rice? seriously? What is there to rice? But if you've ever wondered at the fluffy, whole, every-grain ...
A Special Spatula – Deserted Island Kitchen #3
Looking in your average kitchen shop, one might be forgiven for thinking there are far too many utensils in this world. Perhaps the most prolifigate amongst these is the spatula or the turner—from cheap black plastic that melts a little every time you use it, to silicon implements that promise the moon but are too flexible to life and turn anything. We hunted through all those many thousands before we found this one which we quite like—the OXO Good Grips Large Flexible Turner (what a ...