It's ideal to have great quality, multi-purpose tools,

and to make the most of them, don't you think?

In this newsletter baking and cooking collide!

We've found recipes that use the same kitchen tools

to get entirely different results.

Here's to maximizing the use of our tools in the kitchen!

Not only are sheet pans good for baking cookies, but

they are also great for roasting vegetables,

cooking meatloaf on, pre-freezing items before

combining them into a storage container in the freezer.

Toast nuts, make pizza, catch drips from pies as they bake,

or cook a sheet pan dinner on them.

If you’re making a half batch of muffins or cupcakes and

you don’t fill all the cups in the pan with batter, will it

affect your pan or batter?

Cook's Illustrated has the answer.

Whether non-stick or non-coated aluminized steel,

loaf pans are extremely versatile. When looking for recipes,

using loaf pans, we had so many to choose from.

Here are some of the ideas we came across:

smaller portion lasagnas, meatloaf, jellies,

terrines, no-churn ice cream....

Have you ever put vegetables on a sheet pan and

placed a cooling rack over them and then cooked

chicken thighs or steak on the rack?

The juices of the meat baste the vegetables!

Try this with beans, sliced zucchini, eggplant and carrots.

We've mentioned this before, but think it's a good time for

a reminder - not all cooling racks are oven safe.

Check before using them in the oven.

This cocoa powder is among the richest, darkest Dutch processed cocoa (22-24%) available.

Ingredients:

100% Pure Dutch Processed Cocoa

Product of Holland

Set includes 12 stainless steel decorating tips,

1 - 10-inch pastry bag, 1 - 12-inch pastry bag,

2 standard size couplings, 1 flower nail and 1 cleaning brush.

All reusable!

Pastry bags are plastic lined on the inside allowing icing to easily flow out, and are cloth on the outside which provides for a secure grip.

"Whole preserved lemons are cured in a brine of coarse salt and lemon juice to produce a soft, mellow, deep lemony flavour in the peel. When finely chopped, the skin of the preserved lemons adds an exotic astringency..." Epicurean

Made of stiff looped steel wire with a beech wood handle,

it's designed to perfectly blend ingredients with ease.

This funny looking whisk is great for stirring and

eliminating lumps from pots or bowls of polenta, porridge, muffin or pancake batter, and much more.

It makes the task almost effortless.

We've heard it's good to stir thick soups with and customers

have told us they use it to mix their ground meat.

When you want uniformity, turn to the cookie scoop.

Often in baking and cooking, we need the mixture to

be the same size and thickness in order for everything

to bake or cook evenly. The cookie scoop helps

with that precision we need.

Sizes range from teaspoons to tablespoons.

For moist and tender results, a heavy Dutch oven

comes out the leader in cookware.

You could even use it to bake a cake in!

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