Make Your Cheese Last Longer with the FoodSaver FreshSaver
April 9, 2010 - Written by DianaCheese is a great snack, a good hors d’oeuvre for Easter or other family gatherings (like Mother’s Day), but you end up with partially eaten cheeses sitting around in the fridge going moldy. I hate moldy cheese, but I love cheese. The FoodSaver Freshsaver is a hand held, rechargeable vacuum seal device that will keep your cheese from getting moldy. I swear, it’s wonderful for my cheese. About the size of the palm of your hand, it stores in one of your kitchen drawers easily when not in use. I’ve had mine about 6 months and I love it.
Cheese without the FreshSaver system:
Cheese with the FreshSaver system:
Lots of fresh cheeses mmmm.
All you do is position the device over the seal and suction out the air until there isn’t any more air to suck out. It doesn’t work well on wet foods, so jello would not work, however, you can …
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Summertime Gadgets – Fun and Functional
July 9, 2009 - Written by DianaI have a few gadgets that are maybe a little seasonal in nature, and somewhat fun, but very functional at the same time. Functional is very important to me. I don’t want something hanging around that I’m not going to use, but if it makes my life easier, I definitely want it. Here are a few things I’ve added to my kitchen that I think you might enjoy too.
Cherry Chomper – This cherry pitter by Talisman Designs, is cute and does exactly what it should do. You put a cherry in it’s mouth push down on the head, and the pit is swallowed up, while the cherry is there pitless, waiting for you. My daughter had absconded with the Cherry Chomper and I made her dig it back out and give it back because I am not messing my teeth up on cherry pits. It captures all the pits in the bottom container, so you can throw them into the compost bucket without any rolling away, plus catches the juice too. …
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Aroma Rice Cooker and Some of My Dinner Making Gadgets
May 17, 2009 - Written by DianaThings have been really hectic here. After the Biggest Loser/ Jennie-O contest, things seem to go weird – I lost some posts and it turned out to be something wrong with the automatic tweet feature. Then we have had track meets, to keep us really busy (my son’s relay team set the 4 X 400 meet record time for the SVC) and out of the kitchen. Today’s dinner was a very gadget oriented meal. I have some gadgets I’m enjoying using and they did make dinner easier for me – thank you gadgets. Besides being gadget oriented, it was delicious and pretty darn nutritious and probably low fat (but I can’t guarantee that).
I made the rice with a rice cooker – following the directions correctly and it came out perfect. I grilled the tuna on my grill pan on the stove (less calories that way?), I made some honey mustard vinaigrette with a Black and Decker Gizmo and spinned the water out of my chard with the Spin and Stor.
- Aroma Rice Cooker – We enjoy rice, all different kinds of rice with our meals so much that I …
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Mario Batali – Pizza Line by Copco
May 11, 2009 - Written by DianaI’ve tried out a few new things by Copco lately and the Pizza Line from Mario Batali is another one. The two items I tried out were the Pizza Knife and the Container Grater, both are decent kitchen tools to have.
The Pizza knife is the best pizza cutting tool for me. I’ve had the pizza cutters with the little wheel, but this Pizza Knife cuts through it just by pressing down and rocking it back and forth once. The only downside is that it’s big and you will need to figure out where to store it. However, my husband and son loved it the first time we used it. No cheese sticking to it and smearing, just cut, cut cut, cut and you are done, it’s that simple and fast. I put it into the dishwasher along the side to get cleaned off- where it won’t take up much room. If you eat pizza on a regular basis – this would be something you would want to own.
The Container Grater – took …
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Copco’s Bag Caps
April 22, 2009 - Written by Diana
Here’s a cool new way to keep those bags closed – Bag Caps. Bag Clips are good, but Copco’s Bag Caps are better. I’ve been trying these great things out, and I like them. There are three different sizes to work with all different size bags. I’ve been using the small ones on my bags of frozen veggies – and voila – no more veggies all over the freezer bottom. It’s great for chips, veggies, candy, grains. I found the ultimate make me happy use though. My son is a cereal eater. The boy is 6’2” and wears a size 13 shoe, but his foot is definitely hollow. I know he stores his food there. He runs on the track team and eats constantly. This boy eats a lot of cereal, one day, he ate 7 bowls, usually he eats 4, or he did, until I started buying the mega size cereal bags of generic mini – wheat type stuff. One problem, the bags tear. Every day, it …
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Magnets? We Don’t Need No Stinking Magnets! Come On Get Happeez
March 30, 2009 - Written by Deb
So here’s the thing. I have stainless steel appliances which means I can’t hang my son’s lovely artwork on the fridge. Well, I can with tape but then there’s all that sticky clean up. I love our new fridge, but can’t stand not being able to use it as a display surface. I’m a gal who likes reminders. I need calenders and white boards and big bold lettering. Can’t have that with a stainless steel fridge. At least not until Happeez came along.
Happeez are products that stick where magnets don’t. Clips, frames, whiteboards and more, simply peel of the backing of each Happeez and stick to the desired surface. The beauty part is that they don’t leave a sticky residue or stain behind, and if it loses its stickiness all one needs to do is clean the backing with a bit o’vinegar and water.
Now, I have my son’s pictures on my fridge, inside Happeez frames. I have his artwork displayed using the Happeez clips and I even have my reminders thanks to the whiteboard calendar. Happeez makes me happy. Bet it makes you happy too.
Find Happeez at MayfairLane.com.
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Bob’s Red Mill Gluten Free Pizza Crust Mix
August 22, 2008 - Written by Diana
I don’t think you can talk gluten free, without talking about Bob’s Red Mill. It’s a company that has worked hard to set the standards and guidelines for gluten free products and labeling of gluten free products. They have their own separate facility for gluten free products, so that there isn’t a chance of cross contamination.I received a package of their gluten free pizza mix to try out and I can vouch for this product. It came out to be a really good crispy thin crust pizza. I followed the directions up to the part where it tells you to spread it out with your fingers. I couldn’t do it, it stuck to my fingers and wouldn’t spread. So I took the plastic wrap covering the bowl of dough, and placed it over the half that was on a baking stone. I used a small rolling pin and rolled on top of the plastic wrap. This spread the dough out perfectly on the baking stone. It didn’t feel the same as normal dough, it was …
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Cool Giveaway: Introducing The Wine Holder
April 21, 2008 - Written by Deb
Cookerati is happy to participate in the Bloggy Giveaways this week. We hope to have a couple of cool products for you, and here’s the first:
My husband and I enjoy both wine and new gadgets so we were kind of tickled when we received The Wine Holder to review. The Wine Holder is such a simple design, yet it’s so cool everyone will ask where you got it.
In essence The Wine Holder is a piece of wood with a hole on top and a 45 degree angle on either end. These angles allow The Wine Holder to sit on your bar or countertop or dining room table without taking up a lot of room. They’re sturdy enough to hold a full bottle of wine, yet small and lightweight enough to store in your utensil drawer.
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Senseo Coffee system offer
March 17, 2008 - Written by Diana
For Christmas, I knew I wanted a single serve coffee maker. I am the only regular coffee drinker in my house, so I wanted something that would brew one serving at a time. I researched different coffee makers deciding which one I wanted based on price and the reviews that were on the web sites.
One web site had pre-Christmas sale for a complete kit – coffee, mug, coffee brewing station all for a low price of $45.00 about 25.00 less than the normal “on sale” price. I told my husband that this is what I wanted and gave him the link.
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Vacu-Seal: Compact and Convenient
February 9, 2008 - Written by Deb
I’ll admit it. The Vacu-Seal was sent to me to review for this blog and another of my blogs, Simply Thrifty. I probably wouldn’t have gone out and bought it because I use (and reuse) ziplock bags and old Chinese food containers to store my food. Was I ever pleasantly surprised!
The first thing I noticed was how lightweight and compact the Vacu-Seal is. It doesn’t take up my precious counter space and fits neatly inside a drawer with no problem. My kitchen is small, I don’t have room for anything on my counters. The compactness of the Vacu-Seal is truly appreciated.
The second thing I noticed was how easy to use. I didn’t even need to look at the instructions, it’s kind of self explanatory. Put the Vacu-Seal nozzel into the valve on the reusable bag, and press a button. Really, it’s that simple.
The Vacu-Seal comes with reusable zipper lock bags so you save some coin on foil, bags or containers. You can use it to marinate food in minutes or to …
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