For much of the United States, winter is a time for comfort foods like pasta, root veggies, soups and stews. But, sometimes you want a juicy grilled burger (mushroom, eggplant, meat or otherwise – we don’t judge), but you don’t want to shovel off the drag out the grill. That’s where skillet grills come in. They give you the beautiful grill marks and that delicious crisp edges without the extra fat of frying. And after you’re finished, they’re easier to … Read More
Filling your kitchen with quality cookware is a costly affair. If you’re on a tight budget, you may be tempted to buy some cheap pans and hope that they don’t need to be replaced for a couple years. We know, we’ve been there. We thought we bought the best pans we could find, only to have them fail on us in a matter of weeks. Such are the perils of a bargain hunter.Just because you are on a strict budget, … Read More
What do you do when three people have three different tastes, you don’t have room on the stovetop for multiple skillets or need to keep clean up to a minimum? You can call for more cooks, put in another cook top, and try to convince others to join in with the cleaning or reach for your handy multi-tasker. The divided skillet has become one of my best friends. It can cook the eggs and fry up the links or cook … Read More
When I was a kid, we had a hodge-podge of skillets crammed into our lower kitchen cupboards and in the drawer beneath our gas range. They were used and abused and to this day, I remember the champs! We had two heavy-duty cast iron skillets. One was square with an additional handle, to help lift the thing, and the other round and black as could be, with a slender handle that seemed too small for its circumference. We seasoned them … Read More
Eggs are the inexpensive essential superfood for every diet; high in protein, vitamin-rich, and versatile to fit everyone’s taste buds, whether it’s breakfast, lunch and dinner. But because cooking eggs is a tedious task without the correct tool of choice, it also raises the question of how to fry the perfect egg. After reviewing a vast selection of utensils in search for perfection and here is the top three we discovered. T-fal A83100 One Egg WonderOnly 4.5 inches in diameter, … Read More
Most of us are interested in better health and finding smart and simple ways to achieve it. When it comes to the kitchen however, we can’t always do a complete makeover or enact drastic changes to the family’s diet. What we can do, is to phase out the old and integrate the new one item at a time. This may include a long look at our favorite non-stick fry pans. What gives them that smooth, slippery surface of which we … Read More