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I’ve been fascinated by spiral slicers since I first saw one, but I had never used one until recently. The Brieftons Spiral Slicer is a hand-held unit that has two different julienne sizes – one on each end. The unit also comes with a finger tip guard that grips the vegetables. A small brush helps clean out the hard to clean places in the spiral slicer. I love the idea of easily being able to make delicious veggie noodles. As soon as it arrived, I jumped into trying it out with zucchini and carrots from our CSA box. The Brieftons…

We’ve tried a variety of oven mitts and holders for our cast iron cookware, but none of them completely worked with the heat generated from cooking with cast iron. The regular oven mitts didn’t protect our hands well enough from the heat while the silicone handle sleeve only worked for a little while before becoming too hot to touch. The only thing that we had that remotely worked was pot holder than had silicone on one side and padded fabric on the other, and it’s a pain to keep clean. The Triumphant Chef Super Flex Silicone Oven Mitts are food…

Remember when you were young at drank everything through straws without a care in the world? Those were the days. Now we know that using plastic in our every day lives isn’t the best of ideas due to as the nasty chemicals that can be leached into our foods. What is a family to do when they like using straws for things like smoothies and milkshakes? That is something that I’ve been working on at our house. While we could go without straws, the fact of the matter is that we like using them for certain drinks. I recently received…