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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 #36: A Bit of the Bubbly
Definitely one of our favorites at The Foodie Forkful HQ (otherwise known as our kitchen) – the Sodastream lets you carbonate your own water and add whatever syrup or extracts you like to create your own soda. Each CO2 cartridge will carbonate up to 60 liters of water, which means that if you drink soda [...]
Forkful #42 – Spice Grinder & Whole Spices
I love curry. Seriously, love it. All kinds: Indian, Thai, you name it, I think it’s great. I’ve been able to find some fantastic Thai curry pastes at the Asian supermarket in Niles, IL (H-Mart), but I’ve never found a great Indian curry. Sure, you can buy Madras curry powder at pretty much any grocery [...]
