{WNIMKW} everything is new in my LA kitchen

What’s new in my kitchen….? This certainly posed an interesting question to me this week when I started thinking about this post. Being away from home, everything in my kitchen this month is new, at least to me! There were several items I considered sharing. This awesomely huge Sub-Zero fridge… (the baby is in the…

What’s New In Your Kitchen – Bento Box Edition

I don’t know about the rest of you but I really struggle with packing my 2-going-on-14 year old’s lunch box.  He likes to eat lots of little thing.  I like this about him actually.  It gives me the opportunity to present him with several different food items to try.  If he doesn’t like one thing,…

Adventures in … Apple Butter

A few weeks ago, Chris and I took the boys and went apple picking at Indian Ladder farms.  As a result we got a bushel bag full of apples!  C-man and I have been eating apples for weeks. I made and canned applesauce and more.  We still have apples left.  I hate to waste anything,…

What’s New in My Kitchen Wednesday {Food Mill}

I have to admit.  The food mill (I frequently forget its name) only comes out of the cupboard this time of year for “Rosie Applesauce” but it is a must for making this applesauce and the kids LOVE to use it.  Talk about an upper arm workout.  Three kids and one Mama and we all have…

{Back to School} I Heart the Crockpot!

I  LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the Crockpot! The crockpot pictured here is from Williams- Sonoma.  A beauty isn’t it?! Schools in session! This year ALL three kiddos are at the same school on the same schedule for the very FIRST time.  I have done my duty for the past 8 ½ years and am adapting well to…

Pasta!

This is guest blog by my husband.  Dan worked for several years in the kitchen at the Franklin Plaza Ballroom and attended culinary school at Schenectady County Community College.  He has a ton of kitchen knowledge and I’m constantly consulting him.  He is my sounding board for so many ideas and he helps me out…

What’s New In Your Kitchen Wednesday

The Pastry Cutter.  This was a shower gift for our wedding over 12 years ago…well not this one…a couple months ago the handle on my pastry cutter broke.  Of course I could still use it and did.  I would throw it away once a new one was purchased.  Well, looking all around for it one night…