Posts Tagged ‘OXO’
Menacing mandoline produces delectable potato dish
Posted in Eats, tagged baking, cooking, cooking for two, individual pommes Anna, Kevlar gloves, kitchen, kitchen injury, mandoline, mandoline dangers, mashed potato alternatives, mini pommes Anna, miniature pommes Anna, OXO, OXO mandoline, Pinterest, pommes Ana, pommes Anna, potato recipes, potato slicer, potatoes Anna, slicing potatoes, Yukon potatoes on January 30, 2012 | 4 Comments »
Feeding my salad — and OXO — addiction
Posted in Eats, Home, Photographs, tagged cilantro, Earth Fare, green lettuce, kitchen gadgets, mesclun mix, OXO, OXO salad spinner, postaday2011, red lettuce, salad spinner, washing lettuce on May 26, 2011 | 2 Comments »
I never thought I would own one salad spinner, much less two. The OXO spinner that I purchased last summer, however, has seen more action in the kitchen than literally any other gadget I own. Every week, more or less, I purchase a head of red or green lettuce, and often toss in a few [...]
Do One Thing: Clearing space
Posted in Do One Thing, tagged boxes, Do One Thing, empty boxes, kitchen organization, OXO, postaday2011 on March 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The “Do One Thing” series chronicles my yearlong effort to tackle one project every day to organize my life and home. Day 75: Decision-making time on electronics boxes. Having the original boxes for things like televisions and computer monitors is handy when you move, but not so awesome when you have to live with closets [...]
Useful unitaskers: rare, but invaluable
Posted in CSA, Eats, Home, tagged cappuccino, corn, corn kernels, CSA, food, hulling strawberries, kitchen, minimalism, organization, OXO, Oxo corn stripper, Oxo Good Grips, Oxo strawberry huller, postaday2011, removing corn kernels, s'more makers, s'mores, strawberries, Unclutterer, unitasker on January 21, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Today, a friend sent me a link to Unclutterer, a blog about getting organized. The posts preach minimalism: the less stuff you own, the less stuff you have to organize. Every Wednesday the site mocks “unitaskers,” items that only serve one function while taking up valuable space. These products are often the worst of the [...]
Seriously, buy a salad spinner
Posted in CSA, Photographs, tagged Brady Bunch, CSA, food, greens, OXO, salad, salad spinner, Swiss chard on June 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Listed among Things I Never Thought I Would Buy: a salad spinner. They always seemed very Carol Brady, although I guess they were really more Alice Nelson since Mrs. Brady didn’t do much of the cooking on that show. I digress. I spent last summer washing, drying and trying to properly store a weekly mess [...]
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