Additions to my kitchen

I’ve been adding items to my kitchen, cookwares, serve wares and food storage. I had been watching the 14 cup food processor on Amazon and finally when it dropped to a lowest price, I took the chance and bought it. However, after using it 3 times within 10 days, the motor wouldn’t stop. I had to send it back to Amazon for a replacement. The replacement came quickly (within 2 days). When I got the replacement, I quickly tested it before I washing all the parts to be used. I’ve been using it to make pizza dough and bread dough. I also used it to puree some vegetables but so far no one likes the puree but myself. I will use it more often to do other stuff…shredding, slicing.

I purchased a few pieces of cast iron cookware as well. I got a 12 inch skillet, a 5 quart dutch over and a reversible grill/griddle from Amazon. They are all Lodge Logic brand. My first piece of cast iron was the reversible grill/griddle and I had no idea how to take care of it. Only after grilling some chicken breasts with some lemon marinate did I realized that I should not cook anything acidic the first few times such as lemon and tomato sauce. Anyhow, I learned all that from reading all the reviews. And I also learned to re-season it from reading from all the reviews. I think it’s working much better now. I love grilling vegetables and chicken breasts (for chicken sandwich) on the grill. I cook eggs and pancakes on the griddle side. And the 12 inch skillet, I use it for stir fry mostly. And I use the dutch oven to bake bread so far but there are a lot of uses for the dutch oven which I can’t wait to try. I’ll try the beef stew in the dutch oven next time.

I ordered 3 4-cups Pyrex glasses to store food. It was the cheapest that I could find comparing prices from Amazon and other place. They are great because I was so tired of store my food in plastic containers (which can leech chemicals) and when I have to heat them up, I have to pour them to plates to heat them up and then I have to wash the containers and the plates. Pyrex are very durable glasses so you can see what you store inside them and it can go from refrigerator microwave to serving table.

Corningware simplylite bakewares: 1.5 quart, 2, 2.5 and 3 quarts from Amazon buy 4 for the price of 3. Amazon takes off the lowest price item. They are also great for storage as well as baking. So far I have used them for storage in the refrigerator and use to transport food for my grandma’s potluck birthday party. The lids are a bit difficult to open but I found a way to open from the other three angles rather than from the angle where they intended you to.

I sure have a lot to explore with the food processor and the cast iron cookwares. I am also looking into investing into a bento box. I’ve been reading on that topic and check out what you can put into the bento boxes. There are so many different types of bento boxes out there but one particular one that really grabbed my attention is the Mr. Bento box. It’s not a cheap investment so I have to read more on what I can put in there before investing in it.