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Kitchen Organization
Spring cleaning time is here! Throw open your windows, give your kitchen a deep clean, and get organized with OXO! Compensation was provided by OXO in the form of free products. The opinions expressed herein are those of the author, and are not indicative of the opinions or positions of OXO. Spring cleaning around here means deep …
Having a well-stocked pantry, refrigerator and freezer doesn't mean much if you don't have the appropriate cooking tools. Now, like the ingredients, the hardware is going to depend on your cooking style. Why have a wok if you never make a stir-fry? I'm also big on multi-taskers: cookware, bakeware and tools that perform more than …
This "Stocking Your Kitchen" post all about baking staples. I know that not everyone is into baking. And I get it. Some people are much more comfortable tossing in a palmful of this, a pinch of that. Others are very "by the book," measuring every single ingredient. Cooking is better suited to former; baking to …
Wow! Based on the pageviews for Stocking Your Kitchen: Dry Pantry Staples, you really like this series idea! As I mentioned last week, having a well-stocked pantry helps save money. If you have the staples needed to throw together a last-minute meal, it saves you from ordering take-out, or making an extra trip to the …
Last year, I wrote a post about meal planning, which has by far been one of the most popular non-recipe posts on the blog. I've gotten follow-up questions about "must-have" pantry items and kitchen tools, so I thought I'd start a series of "Stocking Your Kitchen" posts. Why keep a stocked kitchen? Believe it or …
My alarm (a.k.a., the toddler) goes off around 6:30 a.m. I groggily bring him into the bedroom to nurse (yep, almost 15 months and still going!). When he's finished, we head out to the kitchen for his breakfast. Toddlers don't understand the concept of cooking. They know they are hungry, and why isn't there any …
As I've mentioned in many blog posts recently, I've been going through magazines, bookmarking recipes I want to try, and getting rid of the magazine. So, I thought I'd share my recipe organization technique.I started ripping pages out with the recipes I wanted to save. This posed two problems: 1) sometimes recipes spanned two pages, …
Growing up, my mother only used a handful of spices, so storage was never an issue. When I started cooking for myself, I discovered a world of new flavors, and bought a jar of just about every dried herb and spice on the market. I dedicated one whole shelf in my cabinet to those seasonings, …