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Cooking Little is a kitchen shopping and tips blog for urban dwellers and anyone who cooks in a small kitchen. Beyond the kitchen, we feature diversions such as culinary travel spots, classes and tasting events. |
Recently in DIY Category Small kitchens mean making choices. Special shaped pans are just not that necessary. The heart shaped cake, though, is pretty easy to manage without the fancy pan. If you have both a square and round cake pan, try here for instructions. Basically, you cut the round cake in half and position them on two adjacent sides of the square cake. Then you have to give it up for the person using a a tube cake pan. Me? I'd probably just go at a round cake with a knife, a quick v cut at the top and a little off both sides. The bonus of this way is you have snack before you begin to frost the cake. If a two-layer cake is your goal, this approach could still work with two round cake layers. Or a sheet pan could work if you wanted to go completely freehand for a two layer cake. In either case a parchment or cardboard heart make work as a guide. Frosting and berries can hide any imperfections. And let's face it, if you go to the trouble of making someone a cake and they can't get past it's unique qualities, well then, they are just not your Valentine and it's best you found out now. DIY
 The Experiment Begins The recent Treehugger article about hot box cooking got me thinking. It's energy saving for sure, but hot box cooking, which uses insulation rather than continued heat, is actually perfect for small kitchens and holiday dinners in particular. A lemon garlic rice dish is now cooking in stoneware casserole wrapped in a towel and closed in a Styrofoam shipping box. Results coming soon. Tells us about your Hot Boxing Tips DIY
 Small apartments are not always the venue for your bigger holiday gatherings. That's why we are expert side dishers. Try this alternative to plain cranberrry sauce. So far it's been a hit everywhere we've taken it. Recipe follows. DIY
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 Way faster than a mortar & pestle. Keep one stocked with flax seed for quick adds to oatmeal and pancakes. Keep another free to mix and grind custom herb & spice blends. Fenegreek, black mustard seed, and caraway all ground to order. More on why this item is a must... $14.95 AT CYBERCUCINA DIY
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 A Brilliant Small Kitchen Tactic A vegetarian, non-cooking friend wanted to eat better. He learned to “assemble” versus cook by mimicking Whole Foods prepared foods. He made versions of the dishes using the Whole Foods brands such as 365. Clever. organic savings AT WHOLE FOODS |
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