{"id":392,"date":"2005-11-23T06:40:21","date_gmt":"2005-11-23T06:40:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wp_genova\/?p=392"},"modified":"2005-11-23T06:40:21","modified_gmt":"2005-11-23T06:40:21","slug":"another_cookboo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/another_cookboo\/","title":{"rendered":"Another Cookbook Contest!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>***This contest is now closed to entries, winners will be notified in a couple of days.*****<a rel=\"lightbox\" href=\"\/images\/various\/americas_test_kitchen.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Americas_test_kitchen\" height=\"227\" alt=\"Americas_test_kitchen\" src=\"\/images\/various-small\/americas_test_kitchen.jpg\" width=\"200\" border=\"0\" style=\"FLOAT: left; MARGIN: 0px 5px 5px 0px\" \/><\/a>&nbsp; &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>With the advent of food television filling our screens these days, more and more people are getting back into their kitchens to cook.&nbsp; Sometimes they want to replicate the magic they see on TV, sometimes they just want to get something quick on the table after a long day at work.&nbsp; What ALL cooks need is good information to make dishes they can rely on. This is a cookbook that can help you!&nbsp; From the same people behind Cook&#8217;s Illustrated Magazine and America&#8217;s Test Kitchen on PBS, comes this huge family cookbook. <\/p>\n<p>The man behind all this is Christopher Kimball.&nbsp; I recently toured a cookware shop with him to get his hints and recommendations on the essential tools for cooking.&nbsp; I have two of these books to give away.&nbsp; To enter just click on the Comments section below and tell me about your most indispensable kitchen tool. Contest closes December 2nd.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some of my favourites:&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>Microplane graters:&nbsp; I have two, one long thin one and a box grater with different size holes.&nbsp; They make the shortest work out of grating cheese, citrus zesting, nutmeg, ginger and garlic.&nbsp; Love them!<\/p>\n<p>OXO peeler:&nbsp; A nice, big rubber handle to grasp, and a sharp blade that peels anything.&nbsp; A similar one is made by Messermeister and has serrated blades, great for knobbly vegetables like potatoes or ginger root, even kiwi fruit or ripe tomatoes.<\/p>\n<p>My Global vegetable knife:&nbsp; Stays very sharp, thin blade, all-metal design, excellent for working with onions, garlic, smaller jobs.<\/p>\n<p>And before anything gets done in the day, my big splurge kitchen gadget:&nbsp; A Saeco Vienna automatic espresso machine.&nbsp; Fill it with water and beans, touch a button, it grinds the beans, tamps the coffee, brews it, and then ejects the spent grounds into an easy to empty container.&nbsp; Then I steam the milk with the wand attachment and cafe lattes have never been easier, especially when I stumble into the kitchen first thing in the morning.&nbsp; Expensive, but pays for itself when you add up all the large lattes you&#8217;re NOT buying anymore at Starbucks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>***This contest is now closed to entries, winners will be notified in a couple of days.*****&nbsp; &nbsp; With the advent of food television filling our screens these days, more and more people are getting back into their kitchens to cook.&nbsp; &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/another_cookboo\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.dongenova.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}