Diet fads come and go. Remember the Beverly Hills Diet, the peanut butter and beet diet, the cabbage soup diet, or Atkins? We’ve done some crazy things to lose weight over the years. Juice fasting is the latest trend in losing weight. But this is more than dropping pounds, it’s more like a nutritional holiday [...]
Our food choices change as the days get shorter and the mercury starts to drop. Summer vegetables are replaced with winter vegetables, including squash. Butternut squash soup and roasted acorn squash may be on the menu for a rainy night. But this charming squash tea pot will certainly make the night warmer. Tetsubin Tea Pot [...]
I love going to places like Williams Sonoma to look for crazy new products. I especially enjoy finding gadgets that seem like they would take more work to accomplish a task than a simple knife. This strawberry slicer looked like it would certainly fit that bill. But then I played with it and realized this [...]
To borrow a phrase from Oldsmobile, the Zojirushi Home Bakery Supreme Breadmaker is not your father’s bread machine. This thing is like P Diddy, it’s got a devoted possy of bread loving moms. This bread machine has features you won’t find in lesser bread machines. You can even use it to make meatloaf and strawberry [...]
Most people choose their dinner ware for the colors, patterns, and shapes. It’s an aesthetic decision. We want something that looks good when we eat. For others, the right dish may not have a colorful pattern. Instead, it features a special lip that makes it easier to pick up food with the spoon. Scoop plates [...]
I remember the first time I saw someone make fresh mozzarella on television. I think it was the Barefoot Contessa or Martha Stewart who hosted a fabulous dinner with an A-list gay couple in upper state New York. One of the guys nonchalantly said “honey we are about to make some mozzarella, do you want [...]