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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
Pear-Vanilla Compote
This Pear-Vanilla Compote makes a sweet accompaniment to a comforting braised brisket dinner. A splash of pear brandy or nectar enhances the overall pear flavor, and vanilla makes it taste like home.
“Quiche Lorraine” Breakfast Sandwiches with avocado & mixed salad greens
All the flavors of a classic Quiche Lorraine are rolled into one easy-to-make breakfast sandwich.
Tomato Jam and Smoked Paprika Granola
Savory granola is the perfect addition when you want to add a little crunch or umami to puréed soups, salads, or roasted vegetables.
From snacks, dips, and condiments to soups, braises, and desserts, Marisa McClellan does a fabulous job transforming your preserves into some new and exceptional dishes. If you’re looking for ways to use up jams or fruit butters, granola is the answer. By using jams in granola it allows you to toss your nuts and oats in a slurry of sweet preserves with a…
Shanghai Mule with White Claw Lime Hard Seltzer
Hard seltzer water is a popular canned cocktail that’s flooded the market. Whether you’re already on board or just curious, these easy recipes turn the bubbly beverage into some of our new favorite refreshing cocktails, like this Shanghai Mule. The kicker in this mule is the candied ginger — swizzle a slice and see what we mean.
Black Cherry Smash with Budweiser Black Cherry Hard Seltzer
This Black Cherry Smash cocktail makes the case that bourbon and black cherry have a taste affinity that’s meant to be.
What started with everyone drinking posh sparkling waters has manifested into “hard seltzer” or soda water mixed with neutral-flavored alcohol, plus flavoring. Hard seltzer is sparkling water, aka club soda, instilled with attitude; generally between 4.5% and 7% ABV. Citrus, berry flavored,…
Iced Carajillo with Pabst Hard Coffee
Hard seltzer water is a popular canned cocktail that’s flooded the market. Whether you’re already on board or just curious, these easy recipes turn the bubbly beverage into some of our new favorite refreshing cocktails, like this Iced Carajillo with Pabst Hard Coffee and Licor 43. Made from 43 different ingredients, Spain’s Licor 43 is a vanilla-ish flavored liqueur with citrus, botanic, sweet, and floral notes.
Artisan Fire Pizza Dough
Kalamazoo Outdoor Gourmet knows how to create some tasty pizzas on the grill. The Food + Fire cookbook has pizzas for every meal — breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert. The hard part is deciding which one to make first — but they all begin with this Artisan Fire Pizza Dough.
This dough uses a blend of bread flour and Caputo Tipo ‘00 flour — the Italian flour used by Neapolitan pizza restaurants due to…
Bread-and-Butter Pickles
Sweet, salty, and crisp — you can’t go wrong with these classic Bread-and-Butter Pickles!
Miso Butterscotch Sauce
This butterscotch sauce is like none you’ve had before — it’s sweet, but slightly salty with a touch of umami essence — your ice cream is about to get real happy. Butterscotch sauce benefits from salt, too. Like salted caramel, it keeps the sauce from becoming saccharine sweet — it’s perfectly balanced.
Homemade Pop Tarts with strawberry or brown sugar-cinnamon filling
Homemade pop tarts — need we say more? Tender buttery crust, with two fillings to choose from, don’t let their cuteness stop you from eating more than one. This recipe makes either 6 strawberry pop tarts, or 6 brown sugar pop tarts.
Homemade Animal Cookies
Line up for these (almost) too-adorable-to-eat homemade treats. No need to frost these animal cookies — with three different flavors, they’re roaring good.
Apple Puff Pancake with apple cider-caramel sauce
Easier than apple pie, but equally as delicious with much more ta-da than basic breakfast fare, this baked Granny Smith Apple Puff Pancake is fall at its finest.
More crêpe-like than a flapjack, Dutch baby pancakes are the ideal vehicle for buttery, cinnamon-spiced, sautéed Granny Smith apples. With an apple-cider caramel sauce, this breakfast is fit for a king (or a queen).