TIP OF THE DAY: Appliances That Make Low Calorie Foods

It’s easy to make your own grilled chicken,fish, kebabs and roasts in this CuisinartVertical Rotisserie.   It’s easy to cook low calorie foods when you have the right appliances. One of our most popular articles last January was 10 Appliances For Low Calorie Cooking. Take a look at how you can whip up low calorie…
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RECIPE: Pressure Cook Beans & Rice—Fast!

Some people don’t eat more whole grains because they take too long to cook. But with a pressure cooker, brown rice is ready in 10 minutes, beans in 20 minutes (and really long cookers like short ribs in 40 minutes). Start your healthy New Year with a pressure cooker. We love our top-of-the-line Kuhn Rikon…
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TIP OF THE DAY: OXO Salad Spinner

Stop using paper towels to dry off your salad greens. You not only use an unreasonable amount of paper towels (non-green greens, as it were); but you also unnecessarily crush delicate greens such as basil and mint. Instead, use the OXO Good Grips Salad Spinner to dry your lettuce and herbs. What separates the OXO…
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GIFT OF THE DAY: Breville Tea Maker

Our favorite: Breville’s One-TouchTea Maker. Photo courtesy Breville.   We love tea and drink several cups a day. The Breville One-Touch Tea Maker is our Appliance Of The Year. We’ve tried most of the other sophisticated tea makers out there (different brewing times and/or temperatures for black, green, white and herbal teas). This is the…
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GIFT OF THE DAY: Kids’ Cooking Set

Help turn your favorite kid into a curious chef. Photo courtesy CuriousChef.com. As the Chinese proverb so wisely states, give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. Hand a kid a meal and he never learns to cook. Teach…
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