Cooking & Kitchen Equipment

If there’s one thing I’ve learned after I embarked on my culinary journey a few years ago, it was that I needed some stuff. While we already had a kitchen full of various pieces of equipment, much of it wasn’t up to snuff. Take bowls for example. While we had tons of irregularly shaped, sized […]

As you may already know, I enjoy cooking. I have a rather large collection of cookbooks and one of my favorite pastimes is to sit on the couch and flip through the pages of these books in an effort to locate incredible looking and tasting dishes and desserts. From the beginning, I knew I wouldn’t […]

Let’s face it – if you’ve spent any amount of time learning how to cook, writing about food or preparing recipes for family and friends, there was most likely a time when you wanted to try your hand at making your own pasta. Chances are, you’ve tried fresh pasta at a restaurant, wondered why it […]

Recently, I purchased a Bellemain colander along with some Bellemain strainers. I’ve been needing these pieces of kitchen equipment, well, forever. I believe the last time I used a proper colander was when I was living with my parents. That was 20 years ago. While I can’t be certain of the exact time frame, I […]

I recently began the “Stewing & Braising” section of my online cooking classes over at “America’s Test Kitchen.” Before I began, I wasn’t sure if I was going to like this style of food preparation, but the more I learned, the more I realized that it’s actually a very economical and fun way to put […]

I suppose you can look at this either of two ways – you can view spending money on kitchen tools and equipment as fun or you can dread the idea. I think I’m somewhere in the middle. For me, the tools that are used in the kitchen represent something that I “use,” therefore they have […]

I thought we better get some photos of our new All-Clad skillet while we had the chance – meaning – before we begin using it. Right now, it’s perfectly spotless. In about twenty four hours, that will change. Laura and I used a bit of yesterday and this morning to capture the essence of this […]

As I mentioned in my previous post, a gentleman, who lives up the road from Laura and me, graciously gave us a rather large cutting board. Now, I’m going to try to avoid the fray when it comes to defining a cutting board. As you may be aware, there is a bit of a discrepancy […]

The first step any aspiring chef, or talented home cook, takes is to purchase a quality culinary knife set. I’d say the knife set, along with a good cutting board or butchers block, tops the list of items to acquire. Even if a skillet is out of reach for the time being, we can, at […]