christmas
Forkful #1: Twas the Night Before Christmas
This is it,the last day before Christmas. If you’re still wracking your brain for a last-minute gift, we’ve got your golden ticket: give the gift of dishpan-free hands. No, I don’t mean that you should gift wrap a bottle of Palmolive… instead, give them a gift certificate pledging to clean all the dirty dishes for [...]
Forkful #2: Rub-a-dub-dub
Not many shopping days left now! If you’re still searching for gifts, at this point it may be a good idea to start thinking about gifts you can make, rather than pick over what’s left in stores or worry about whether something will arrive in time with shipping. A simple yet delicious and useful gift [...]
Forkful #5: Reinventing the Wheel
We’re getting down to the wire for Christmas shopping, so here’s a simple yet super-useful one: a handheld pizza cutter. Until we got one of these, I had only ever seen the old-style pizza cutters with the wheel on one end and an angled handle. Usually the blade wheel wobbled all over the place, and [...]
Forkful #7: Bubble, Bubble, No Toil, No Trouble
Okay, at first blush, an electric kettle seems really lame. Unless you live in a dorm room, you have a stove, you have a microwave… how hard is it to boil water? Well, not very hard. But and electric kettle is still well worth having! Not only does it boil water much faster than the [...]
Forkful #8: Drive Through? Don’t Think So!
Let’s face it, there are about a billion cookbooks out there. But honestly, how often do you feel the need to buy a cookbook? And of the ones you have (which you probably were given as gifts), how often do you crack one open to get a recipe? We cook a lot, and of the [...]
Forkful #16: Stick a Shopping Manager on Your Fridge
So I admit, I’m not always the best about making grocery lists (or remembering to take them with me). And then, when I do make a list I usually do it right before I walk out the door, and chances are I forget something I realized we needed a day or two earlier. What’s worse, [...]
Forkful #18: Get Your Chef On!
Okay, so maybe you (or the someone on your list) can’t deftly wield your kitchen knife like a samurai and turn a carrot into a whisker-thin julienne with machine-like speed… neither can I. And maybe the last time you tried to decorate a cake (assuming you’ve been brave enough to try at all!), it looked like a kindergarten art project… Or maybe you love risotto, but you’ve never been too sure on how to make it right, so you only ever eat it at a restaurant. Not to worry – even the Iron Chefs started somewhere, and they needed some guidance and instruction along the way. Why not do the same for yourself, or the foodie on your list? No, not go to culinary school – just take some cooking classes!
Forkful #20: A Built-In Sous Chef in Your Stand Mixer
Anyone with a stand mixer knows how awesome they are. Anyone with a stand mixer knows how annoying it is to have to stop the mixer and scape down the sides of the bowl every few minutes to make sure it mixes properly. Well, rather than hire an assistant chef, just pick up this beater [...]
Forkful #21: Homemade Vanilla Extract
If the foodie on your list enjoys baking, a great (and easy) idea for them is some homemade vanilla extract. This is a great gift idea for the even the most casual baker, because it’s so useful. And it’s super easy. Just get some vanilla beans (Amazon carries them much much cheaper than your local [...]
Forkful #22: Transport Your Food & Drinks in Style
Sure, most people already have travel mugs, cups and Tupperware containers, so why would you want to give them more stuff to clutter up their cabinets? Because these are way cooler than the ones they have, that’s why! We discovered the Aladdin products at the Home & Housewares show this past Spring, and were really [...]
