Quick Tip: Keep a Vinegar Produce Wash by the Sink

The good folks down at Cook’s Illustrated have found that washing veggies and fruit with a diluted mix of 3 parts water to 1 part good, old-fashioned white vinegar and then rinsing with water is 98% effective in removing bacteria from foods. It is important to wash even organic produce that may be affected by [...]

Top 10 Tools for the Kitchen

When I was waxing rhapsodic about my ice cream maker the other day, it got me thinking about my favorite kitchen tools, the ones I absolutely could not do without. What if, for some reason, I had to rebuild my kitchen from zero? What would I spend my money on?
So I put together this list [...]

De-cluttering My Kitchen

Whew, it is chilly this morning. It feels like a crisp fall day, and it’s May! I almost needed a hat and gloves for my morning walk. Whatever happened to the warming part of global warming? Meanwhile, the Brits are planting olives and almonds and vineyards. Lucky bastards…
After deciding to green my kitchen last week, [...]

Greening My Kitchen

Over the past month, I read a couple of books by two great women science fiction writers that inspired me to think more deeply about my own life and ways I could actively contribute to saving this sorry excuse for a species (tongue planted firmly in cheek). I came up with a lot of ideas, [...]

A New Addition to the Kitchen

We were very excited this week to receive our late Christmas present to ourselves: a new stove (click the photo for a full-sized view). Sure, it is not the stainless steel, gas burner, professional-size stove I would like to have one day in my dream kitchen, but it is definitely an improvement. The burners [...]