Object of affection
Happy Valentine's Day! If you came here expecting hearts and candies, you're outta luck. DPaul and I do not really observe Valentine's Day, or at least not with the kind of fervor that maybe we once did when we first…
Kitchen essentials: Popeners
If you're crafty, you can open a bottle of beer with pretty much anything. But if you want your beer to have that extra sparkle, that certain divine touch, then there is no substitute for a Popener. Now, I'm not…
Kitchen essentials: Wooden spatula
Wow, you're saying, he's really scraping the barrel now. But hear me out: Even the lowliest tools are worthy of exultation. Case in point, the wooden spatula. Now, it doesn't matter that I have something like 12 other spatulas and…
Kitchen essentials: Cuisinart food processor
Back when we lived on Dolores Street, in a building that's not even as old as the one we're in now, we had neither adequate counter space nor, more importantly, sufficient electrical oomph to power kitchen appliances. Or, for that…
Kitchen essentials: Francis Francis X5
Well, maybe it's not essential to every kitchen, but it's definitely ensconced itself as a fixture in ours. DPaul and I acquired the taste for seriously strong espresso during our sojourns to Italy. Making our morning espresso was one of…
Kitchen essentials: Le Creuset
Thank heavens I was watching my RSS reader in time to see Simply Recipes' alert yesterday for a 7-piece Le Creuset set for a mere $239. Considering each of the pans in the set retail for $100 and up, and…
Kitchen essentials: Benriner vegetable slicer
I'm pretty good with a knife. I have no problem with slicing things by hand. But if you want extreme precision, or just have a heck of a lot of things to slice, gotta get your hands on one of…