Bake with abandon!
Seeing that it’s Earth Day, I thought I’d post about an environmentally-friendly kitchen item —BioBags. Putting compostable waste into plastic bags seems counterintuitive, so I’ve been testing a biodegradable version. Based on cornstarch, these bags break down in the composter but keep your kitchen smelling …
I can’t resist problem-solving products. Especially if they come in under $20 (tax included). So when Jennifer at Surroundings showed me Umbra’s $15 Cooknook, an under-the-cabinet book holder, I had to try it. The picture to the left is how the manufacturer illustrates its use. …
Lori is on her third breadmaker. Jodi loves her stand-up mixer enough to devote serious counter space to it. Heck, I have not one but two crockpots. Clearly, my gadget policy isn’t as firm as “thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s Veg-O-Matic.” Unlike some rule …
I’m old enough to remember the original commercials for Dial-O-Matic where Ron Popeil coined the phrase, “It slices. It dices. It even makes julienne fries!” I didn’t know what julienne fries were, but I wanted to make them. Badly. I was young and impressionable, and …
As a teen, I was convinced my mother was the weirdest parent on the planet. My girlfriends and I would try to outdo each other with stories of our mothers’ embarrassing behaviour, like how they’d shop in curlers or forced us to wear bell bottoms …