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Canadians: If you like the look of the nest egg, but you still need to afford to fill it with change, Chapters and Indigo locations that have that section of baby toys and children's decor have a similar one for much less!

The ones you can find in Chinatown are probably for moon cakes, but I imagine they'd be pretty good for molding butter, too.

Most of my books are dessert/baking or Asian. I'm a student living pretty far away from home and when I put my things in storage every year and fly back, these are the four books for which I sacrifice luggage space.

Nigella Express
Baking From My Home To Yours
The Perfect Scoop
Martin Yan Quick & Easy

I also pack the file on my desktop marked 'recipes' (via usb) & my notebook, which is actually a small photo album stuffed with index cards.

My roommate and I have our own bedrooms (which are actually decent-size!) but we share a kitchenette - a full size fridge, a small sink, a microwave, some counter space and a tiny little table. To this set-up, we've been permitted to add an electric kettle, a rice cooker and a toaster oven. And some other essentials. Which in our case, include a handheld blender and, uh, a kitchenaid. I've seen things like George Foremans and those coffee maker-toaster-egg cooker combination things in other students rooms. As long as it has an automatic shutoff and a contained heat source (ie. no hotplates)
There are roughly 250 students per floor and each floor has two kitchens - a stove/oven, a double sink, some counter space, and an ice maker. You see the same ten or so people in your kitchen all the time, because first year students have a mandatory meal plan and we have a small cafeteria in our building (Plus multiple big ones across the parking lot at the school itself.) so some students will go their entire year without using the kitchens at all.

The smell tomato plants make when you brush against them.

My roommate gave me the Tovolo rocketship ones as a gift, and in response to Tizinu, they do look a little...yeah. But we live on campus in a residence, so to be honest we could be sucking on sailboats and they'd still make people giggle.

I love them anyway, though. We buy cartons of those thick fruit juices and freeze them into rocketships, or we make ice cream and just leave them in longer to freeze solid. So far our biggest success has been coconut rocketships.