• 27Nov

    Happy Thanksgiving!

    Thanksgiving is like THE food holiday, and since we didn’t drive back home, we had our own Thanksgiving dinner here. It was my first time cooking a turkey, as well as the whole dinner. Everything was really good, except my Caramel Apple pie was invisibly ruined. First, the turkey:

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  • 22Nov
    Categories: Cookware Comments: 0

    This is the Ikea Spice Mill, and it is awesome:

    ikea spice mill

    You really should buy one of these. Here’s why:

    • Its cheap. Its like $7 at Ikea.
    • Its adjustable so you can grind anything from chunks to a fine powder.
    • Its strong too. I use mine to grind coarse Kosher salt.
    • And, it grinds quickly. A couple of twists, and you’re good to go. Compare that to my fancy-looking pepper grinder, where you can grind for 20-30 seconds to get what you want.

    Here’s the Ikea product page: LINK — They even have the matching jars and you could just move the grinder head to whatever jar you want to grind.