Elise
Attack Of The Cucumber
Chances are, if you have a home garden, you are currently staring at a huge pile of ripe cucumbers. You’ve eaten dozens of cucumber salads, but the pile doesn’t seem to get any smaller. You love pickles, but they sound……hard. Fear not! We’ve got a simple recipe for Freezer Pickles courtesy of my mom. No [...]
Ladies and Gentlemen, start your engines
No, I’m not talking about last weekend’s Indy 500. I’m talking about starting your food truck’s engine! As I mentioned in the previous post about the cool stuff I saw at the National Restaurant Association, one of the vendors was Mobi Munch, a company dedicated to providing you with everything you need (truck & other [...]
2010 National Restaurant Association Show
Last weekend was the 2010 National Restaurant Association Show in Chicago, and being a fan of trade shows, I decided to check it out. It’s just as ridiculously ginormous as the Home & Housewares Show (1600 exhibitors, 50,000 attendees) but geared towards products/services for the foodservice industry instead of consumers. And it was food sample [...]
IHHS 2010 Find: BRUGO Travel Mug
If you’re a coffee enthusiast, you know how much better your coffee tastes when it’s at the right temperature. You brew it nice and hot, let it cool down a bit, then have a pretty short window to enjoy it before it gets cold. Or maybe you have a nice double-wall insulated travel mug, which [...]
IHHS 2010 Find: Handstand Kids Cookbooks
If you’re a foodie with kids, like us, you’re raising (or trying to raise) your kids to appreciate food as much as you do. Maybe your kid is already a burgeoning foodie. In which case, the Handstand Kids cookbook series could be an excellent tool for you. Each themed cookbook (Italian, Mexican, and Chinese so [...]
IHHS 2010 Find: FusionBrands tools
The clever people at FusionBrands have a whole bunch of cool items we want to tell you about. Some are brand new, other are just cool enough to make the grade. First is the Foodpod – a silicone food pouch that you fill with anything you want to boil, steam, or poach. Pop the whole [...]
IHHS 2010 Find: Magnetic Kitchen Towels
Another example of a cool simple improvement of a tool you already use, the Magnet & Go collection by B4Market caught our eyes at the IHHS show. The options include a magnetic potholder and oven mitt ($18) and two kitchen towels ($10), which each have a small magnet sewn into them to hang onto any [...]
IHHS 2010 Find: The Bag Stand
This product is an example of a cool and cheap kitchen gadget that once you hear about, you’ll wonder why you don’t already have it in your kitchen. It’s called the Bag Stand by Globadec, and it’s a small adhesive-lined folded piece of plastic that sticks to the bottom of your chip/cracker/candy bags in order [...]
IHHS 2010 Find: Zoku Quick Pop Maker
The first item we want to tell you about from the International Home and Housewares Show is a great update of a classic idea. Many of you may remember, as I do, making popsicles with your mom when you were a kid. We had a basic plastic Tupperware set, and would fill it with fruit [...]
The Big Show
Our feet are sore, our calves are sore, our press kit-carrying arms are sore, but we had a fantastic Sunday at the 2010 Home and Housewares Show! We got up early, left the baby with his grandparents, and headed down to the McCormick center in Chicago early on Sunday to see all there was to [...]
