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It would be horrible to carry once it got heavy

I use my little cast iron pan for toasting spices, usually for Indian cooking.

I cut off the tip of my left thumb about once every six months with my Global knife. I dropped the heavy cover of my 8 qt Lodge cast-iron Dutch often, which fell edge first into my l...

Last year I bought a round pie carrier from 2 Amish girls on a roadside in Missouri. It's signed by the person who made it. It's simply beautiful. And it was about $25. So it you're in Amish ar...

I have Paula'a cookbook and have always wanted to try them, but didn't want to buy special molds etc, having never tried them first. I will be sure and add them to my Trader Joe's list. Thanks f...

I like to mix ground pork and ground beef for a burger.

Until someone breaks a tooth or something. I would never want to put something inedible disguised as edible with food.

I have an Escali Pana scale that is preprogrammed with weights for about 100 ingredients. So I can put in the code for parmesan cheese and it will tell me when I have 1/2 cup. It also measures in...

I bake almost all of our bread. I wouldn't give up my oven.

Oh my mouth is just watering!

I made 2 loaves of sourdough and 2 loaves of sandwich bread. Also, brown sugar meringue cupcakes to use up the egg whites I had left after making butter pecan ice cream.

Interesting to see this today. I had a very stressful start to the weekend and realized by the end of the weekend that I had taken refuge by refreshing my starter, making 2 loaves of sourdough, 2 ...

In a Lora Brody slower cooker cookbook recipe I have you put whole onions, low sodium chicken stock and butter in your slower cooker and cook on low for 24 hours. The aroma will drive you insane. ...

More efficient use of the space and interesting ideas for organization and storage. My dream is to someday have an open kitchen.

It's my opinion that you SHOULD win an award for this! Maybe the James Beard Fdn should come up with a new category

I've definitely made more bread this year. And I'm more conscious of trying to use up leftovers.

After five years of being a vegetarian I realized my night time dreams about ham and fried chicken were telling me something. First it was a turkey sandwich on royal egg bread. And then to the pl...

I was an avid coupon user 20 years ago. I've tried to go back to it, but I find my cooking has changed so much and that the majority of food coupons are for processed foods, which I don't buy a l...

I've wanted one since they came out. I've been waiting for them to become a bit more common and hopefully for the price to come down a bit.

Don't worry about the bottoms of your pans. Those scratched and stained bottoms are badges of culinary honor! I love my pegboard wall.