I’m thinking of buying this Baker’s Rack for our kitchen.
It would be nice to have more space for, you know, stuff.
January, 2009
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Chrome Baker’s Rack, Shelf
Saturday, January 31st, 2009Ikea Celeber Soy Sauce Pitcher
Friday, January 30th, 2009
CELEBER Soy Sauce Pitcher with Saucer from Ikea, $7.99.
I think it would be friends with Chicken Feet Salt and Pepper Shakers, don’t you?
Button Flower Bouquet that Never Wilts
Thursday, January 29th, 2009
I’m loving this Bold and Beautiful Button Bouquet by Dallas-based Really Bad Kitty on Etsy.
They would look so cute on a nightstand or dresser, or tucked in a corner of your kitchen next to the wooden spoons.
I’m also loving the name Really Bad Kitty. Ha!
$10 for 10 flowers
Seventh Generation Cleaning Product New Labels
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009
Seventh Generation‘s Blog, 7Gen, announced this week that its cleaning products will be unveiling newly designed labels in 2009. This is a sneak peak.
The new packaging looks a bit simpler/sleeker/cleaner (pardon the pun), a la Method, though it’s not a drastic change.
Speaking of sleek packaging, I still really want a Sorapot. So does my friend Zarina, as she confessed last week over a blood orange margarita at Chestnut.
I use Seventh Generation detergent in our mini-dishwasher and I think it works great. Then again, it’s been so long since I used the regular, toxic stuff, take my recommendation with a grain of crusty rice.
Red Beets, Golden Beets, Oven-Roasted
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009
I do not understand how anyone dislikes beets.
I like vegetables more than most, I admit. Yet, with most vegetable aversions I can sympathize.
Broccoli, cauliflower, asparagus? I get it. I hated these growing up.
Brussels sprouts, green beans, spinach? I can see it. They’re bad when overcooked.
Radishes, dandelion greens, raw cabbage? I hear you. I still don’t love these myself.
But beets? Beets are delightful. Beets are sweet. Beets are the candy of vegetables. Beets are nearly impossible to overcook. Beets can be eaten plain, sliced into salads, blended into soups, tossed with hard-boiled eggs, pickled sweet or gussied up with olive oil and garlic. Beets are delicious and lovely. They taste like dessert, did I mention that?
And, beets are pretty. These beets are a surprise hybrid born out of roasting red and golden beets together in a packet of tinfoil, thrown into a 400F oven for an hour.
Hot Dog, Bacon Keds Shoes for Women, Kids
Monday, January 26th, 2009
Hot Dog Lover Keds Lace-Ups for Kids and Bacon Keds Slip-Ons for Women
just.
made.
my.
day.
Yours too?
Red Flower Bloom Bowl
Sunday, January 25th, 2009
Bloom Bowl by Chris Kabatsi for Arktura, a Los Angeles-based company that crafts beautiful and sustainable furniture, housewares and architecture.
The majority of our products are made using durable long-lasting materials with high recycled content, that produce zero landfill waste form manufacture; and, at the end of their life cycle are fully recyclable. We also use high quality zero VOC finishes, which release no toxins into the environment during application or in situ. Our firm is committed to energy sustainability through solar and wind power.
This bowl, $98, would be beautiful on a coffee table to hold newspapers, as a centerpiece on a dining room table, or on a kitchen counter to keep fruit.
Bagels Homemade: Sesame, onion and salt
Saturday, January 24th, 2009
I consider most Saturday mornings productive if I get up, perk some coffee and read a few sections of the New York Times all before noon. Compared to many weekends during college, this is, after all, an improvement.
This morning, I forever raised the bar for Saturday Morning Productivity. I made homemade bagels. Yeast, water, sugar, salt, flour, kneading, resting, rising, shaping, boiling, and baking. They’re perfect and delicious.
I followed this recipe by Aimee of Under the High Chair and, gasp, I followed the recipe exactly. Double gasp, this included using white flour. I did keep the raw cane sugar for the sugar. And I did allow myself one creative flourish for a topping: dehydrated onions mixed with salt. (Poppy seeds and salt on the rest.)
Here’s the biggest shock, though. How does Aimee, a mother of two wee ones, manage to make homemade bagels? And how find time did she videotape herself shaping the dough for the helpful video tutorials? And how does she clean everything?
‘Cause I just glanced in my kitchen, and it looks like a flour mill and a poppy seed factory exploded simultaneously.
Good thing some productivity can be postponed until the late afternoon.
Paper Flower Decorations for Cupcakes
Friday, January 23rd, 2009
Cupcakes just got even cuter with Paper Flower Cupcake Toppers by England-based artist Millalove on Etsy.
Choose from Pink, Light Green, Light Blue, Yellow, Cream, Light Grey, White, Dark Turquoise, and Lilac.
$12.50 for a set of 10. They’re reusable. But not edible- no matter how sweet they look- they’re paper. Besides, if you ate them, you wouldn’t be able to reuse them.
Produce in Season Chart
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009
Produce in Season from Foundry:
Keep track of the freshest produce in season. Display it in your kitchen, or keep it tucked away with your favourite recipe books and your culinary delights will never have tasted so good.
As you may have guessed by the spelling of favourite, Foundry’s not an American company. In fact, it’s Australian with Italian and Dutch influences. Which leads me to believe that “Produce in Season” may be obselete (or at best, confusing) for those of us in the US.
Still, we can all appreciate pretty charts with fun information to read after we’ve memorized the cereal box. (Or Marmite bottle or clotted cream liter litre or whatever.)
(Via SwissMiss)