Thursday, August 13, 2009

Kitchen Gadgets I Couldn't Live Without

At least I must have thought that when I bought all of these.


Such a cute pan to make Christmas cakes -- little snowmen and mittens...adorable.

I was thrilled to find this one many years ago. I really did make homemade ravioli back then and I thought this would be great to make uniform little pillows of culinary delights. The operative word in that sentence was did. I haven't made them once since I bought this.
Ditto for a checkerboard cake, canape breads, or decorated pastries. I buy all sorts of cake decorating tips and never decorate cakes. While at a family gathering last month, the conversation got around to useless gadgets that we all own. It was interesting to me to find that 3 of my 4 sisters-in-law also own a checkerboard cake pan. Not one has ever made a cake in it! I suggested that we all get together and have a checkerboard cake baking party. Who knows maybe we will.

This post was inspired when I was trying to find a place to store my most recent purchase of a cast iron corn muffin pan.

My mission for September is to use at least one of these items.

A couple of days ago I was in Wally's World and I remembered that I had been looking at some deck rugs in May. I thought I would wait and see if they were marked down later. I walked back to the garden center and sure enough there they were marked down to less than half price!
I bought a neutral color. This afternoon I put it out on the deck.

I think it has possibilities. I plan to bring out cushions, quilted chair backs, etc. tomorrow. Check back tomorrow night or Sat. morning to see what I do with it.
Take Care,



6:14pm update: What the heck is this????


As soon as I hit publish, this came up. Is blogger now starting to throw up advertising every time we post? Has anyone else seen this?

4 comments:

  1. Hi Zoey, I'm another one of those people who have tons of kitchen gadgets and never use them. Some of them I used to use (like 20 years ago). The pasta machine is one. The kids loved it, but what a mess. How about a butter mold shaped like a cow? And don't forget the dolphin ice sculpture mold. Tiny petit four pans (never used), but no checkerboard cake pan!

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  2. I cant' wait to see what you come with to go with your new cool rug!
    As far as those gadgets go, that is too funny. You must have more cabinets than I do!

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  3. I can definitely see you making the canapes, etc and why not fit them in to match a tablescape? Like cream cheese and green olives with a green and white theme-you get my drift.
    I think I have a checkerboard cake too and I'm trying to remember if I tried it maybe once.
    Glad you got a deck rug, it looks nice.

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  4. I have lots of "stuff" too, but I really use my cast iron corn muffin mold a lot. In fact, I have two of them. H and I make a huge batch of jalapeno cheese muffins and freeze them. They go great with soups or chili and, as an added extra bonus, they are whole grain! We love them.

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