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15 Essential Kitchen Tools
Are you just starting out and ready to equip you first kitchen? Or maybe this time at home has you thinking it might be time to pare down an overload of gadgets? Whatever your motivation, check out our list of must-have kitchen essentials for tools you’ll actually use.
Tips
Use a Tea Infusion Spoon as a Flour or Sugar Shaker
A tea infusion spoon/ball may seem like just another unitasker in the kitchen, but with this quick baking tip, you can use it for more tasks.
Use a Pastry Blender for More Than Pie Dough
Your pastry blender can be used for more than pies and pastries—it's perfect for chopped avocados, eggs for salad, and mashing cooked potatoes and squash.
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Recipes
Cinnamon Roll Waffles with cinnamon chips
Combine two breakfast faves — waffles and cinnamon rolls — for the ultimate morning treat: Cinnamon Roll Waffles with cinnamon chips. But, wait! Drizzling (or coating!) these waffles with the dreamy Cream Cheese Frosting seals the deal.
Black Pepper Ricotta Pancakes with lemonade glaze
These tender Black Pepper Ricotta Pancakes with lemonade glaze have an amusing play on that ever-popular, tried-and-true combo of lemon-pepper, with black pepper in the cakes and sweet lemon syrup.
Asian Aioli
Tempura must be served hot, with sauces, right after frying, so make this Asian Aioli before you begin.
Warm Corn Chowder Salad
Since summer is rarely conducive to chowder, we've turned corn chowder's ingredients into a perfect summer side dish with bacon, potatoes, red bell pepper, and plenty of golden sweet corn.
Grilled Mexican Corn Dip
This easy app is inspired by grilled Mexican corn, and incorporates jalapeños, lime juice, and Mexican cheese for a dip with zip. Nothing draws a crowd like a cheesy dip, and when fresh sweet corn is the main ingredient, be prepared for a stampede at the appetizer table.
Copycat Cracker Jack with peanuts
This homemade caramel-popcorn-and-peanuts mix is a golden Cracker Jack copycat. All that’s missing is the little prize at the bottom of the box.
Coconut Paletas
Coconut Paletas deliver creamy, cool, fresh flavor, making them the epitome of a summer treat. Paletas are Mexican frozen ice pops usually made with fresh fruit juice or milk with chunks of fresh fruit stirred in — we used strawberry and pineapple in ours. The second recipe, Pineapple-Coconut Paletas, incorporates pineapple (or strawberry) purée to flavor the coconut milk and add extra fruitiness.
Bacon Pesto
Bacon and pesto are a match made in heaven — so why not mix them together?! This Bacon Pesto is THE pasta sauce for the avid bacon lover.
Grilled Scallops with plum sauce
Glazed Scallop Kebabs deliver bite after bite of Asian-inspired sweet and spice that’s oh-so nice. The recipe is so shockingly simple, it’s hard to fathom it can be as good as it is, but it is!
Graham Cracker Butter
Cookie butters are more popular than ever. Jumping on that bandwagon, meet our Graham Cracker Butter. It’s smooth, creamy, and every bit addictive — perfect for spreading on toast, waffles, or pancakes. It also makes a great dipper for apple slices or even as a dessert topping — you’ll want to put this butter on anything and everything.
Apricot Chutney
Kind of jam-like, chutneys are condiments made of fruits, vinegar, sugar, and spices. This Apricot Chutney includes mustard, and can be made a day or two ahead to complement the Crown Roast of Pork.
Key Lime Mousse with graham cracker tuiles
Here’s a fun twist on the classic Key lime pie. And like the pie, Key lime juice is the main ingredient — but now it’s in a mousse lightened with whipped cream.
The graham tuile [TWEEL] is a take-off on the pie’s traditional graham cracker crust. Tuile is French for “tile,” and these thin, crispy cookies are molded while still warm—traditionally into the shape of roof tiles. But they can also be formed into edible bowls! Molding does take practice (we broke several at first), but just…