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Get ready for Halloween: For a bewitching breakfast, lunch or dinner on Halloween, go batty with pancake molds. A Williams-Sonoma exclusive, they’re easy to use. The set of three molds—these adorable bats plus a pumpkin and a haunted house—is $19.95. Pancakes—also known as flapjacks, griddlecakes and hotcakes—are an ancient food. While some type of griddle…
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How to boil water? Doesn’t everyone know how to boil water? Not everyone knows how to boil water correctly. Here’s some advice from Chef Louis Eguaras, author of 101 Things I Learned In Culinary School. 1. Choose the right size pot. This means a pot large enough to comfortably hold what you need to cook,…
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A saucier has rounded edges, eliminating corners where food can burn. This saucier is available at Amazon.com. Here’s advice from the book, 101 Things I Learned In Culinary School, by Louis Eguaras, a former White House staff chef now a professor at the California School of Culinary Arts: A griddle is not a grill, a…
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Don’t have a rolling pin? Use a wine bottle. Photo by Karen Barefoot | SXC. Some 600,000 to 750,000 rolling pins are manufactured and sold in the U.S. each year. But if you rarely use a rolling pin, you don’t need to take up space with one. You can use a wine bottle to roll…
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The new Mug Hug promises to be a hit. It’s one of several variations of a reusable silicone sip-top lid for cups and mugs that we saw at the recent International Gift Show. Most lids were combined with a ceramic mug, but Mug Hug can be purchased as a solo unit. It: Keeps the beverage…
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