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Obsessed with this Gorgeous Tea Pitcher… Obsessed, I Tell You

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I drink a lot of tea – okay, that’s an understatement. Let’s try again. I am in the process of gleefully and systematically drinking tea each of my waking hours.

That’s better.

I have iced tea (usually either black raspberry tea or green raspberry tea) with my coffee in the morning, then I keep a large (we’re talking quite large) beautiful silver, shiny tumbler with a straw filled for the remainder of the day.

At several points during the day (around 4:00 when I’m making supper and 6:00 when I’m winding down) I also have a nice big mug of hot tea. The iced tea never leaves my side mind you, the hot simply joins us where we happen to be.

While I have endless mugs for my hot tea, my tumbler (aka my shadow), and tall glasses for mealtime, my iced tea pitcher leaves much to be desired. Okay, between me and you, it’s an old glass pitcher from a coffee maker I had, like, 6 years ago! For someone as clumsy as me to keep anything made of glass that long without breaking it is something of an accomplishment, but it’s simply time to upgrade the iced tea game.

I’m an embarrassment to myself and my daughter, the Crazy Tea Chick.

See the beauty pictured at the right? IT’s the HIWARE Glass Pitcher (Amazon Link) and I have invited it to join the family.

Features of This Gorgeous, Ingenious Pitcher:

  • This pitcher is made from borosilicate glass and withstands temperature 0 to 300 ℉, so you can pour boiling water into this pitcher safely.
  • The absence of lead guarantees 100-percent recyclable products; superior resistant to use, the pitcher is thicker than other brands in the market and has been double-annealed to give it extra durability
  • The lid with filter is made from 18/8 stainless steel, it is perfect for keeping the ice cubes, sliced fruit, tea bags inside the beverage. Specially designed with non-dripping spout and the ergonomically designed handle make it easy to hold and pour. Easy to clean
  • More natural and healthy (and better looking!) than using a plastic one. This pitcher is widely used for water, iced tea, hot tea, fruit infused water, homemade beverages, cold brew coffee, etc. It’s even suitable to leave in your fridge. 

See HIWARE Glass Pitcher (Amazon Link)

Kicking off the Christmas Gift Guide with a Sloth in a Coffee Cup (Because Why Wouldn’t I??)

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I have good news and bad news for you… the window of opportunity for Christmas shopping is now officially wide open! You can shop for Christmas gifts now without being looked at like you have three heads. That’s the good news.

The bad news is this window begins closing a little bit each day, until it relentlessly slams shut before you know it!

That’s why I’m beginning the 2019 Gift Guide for Cooks and Foodies today. I may not have the graphic for the sidebar yet (soon, soon) but I have a fun gift to kick things off with – the Feeling Slothee, Need a Coffee mug you see here.

Crazy cute!

For whatever reasons, gifts like this are my favorite to give AND receive – the deliciously unique and fun variety. The kind that makes the recipient smile ear to ear as they show it off to everyone in the room.

  • Designed exclusively by Geek Details and shipped exclusively from Geek Details.
  • The imprinted design is beautifully displayed on both sides of the mug and looks as pictured. It stops approximately 1 inch from both sides of the C-handle.
  • The premium full color sublimation imprint creates vibrant, long lasting, lead-free designs.
  • Microwave and dishwasher safe for your convenience.
  • Eleven ounce white ceramic coffee mug also holds a great cup of tea and includes a large, easy to grip C-handle.

I love everything about this adorable coffee mug, especially the fact that it is an exclusive design (there’s that uniqueness that floats my boat). I also love the fact that the design is on both sides.

See Feeling Slothee, Need a Coffee for a closer look. SO DARN CUTE!


Dinosaur Taco Holders (How Freaking Cute!)

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Dinosaur Taco Holders

If I haven’t mentioned it here, it’s the only place I haven’t mentioned it and you’re the only ones I haven’t told…. our first grandbaby (a boy) is due in a matter of weeks and we are completely over the moon.  As someone who had all daughters (three to be exact), I can’t wait to see what it’s like to have a little boy in the family.

I’ve been brushing up on my dinosaurs (ever notice how many kinds there are… trust me there are A LOT) so I can impress him with my knowledge. Just so you know, I plan to be the coolest MiMi in the world.

These adorable Dinosaur Taco Holders are just the thing for any other cool moms, dads, grandmoms, granddads, aunts, or uncles who want to score points with the little ones.

Let me just say, right up front, that many little girls LOVE dinosaurs just as much as (or even more than) little boys.  They’re fascinating! My own daughters, while they loved (and love) animals to distraction, were simply never into dinosaurs .

Dragons? Absolutely. But dinosaurs, not so much.

If you have little boys or girls in your family who’d get a kick out of these taco  holders, they’re available on Amazon. While they’d make fun Christmas gifts, I think they’d be just as fun to have at your house for extra, extra cool lunches.. as well as extra “cool points” for yourself.

Those are always nice!


Beautiful Non-Slip Kitchen Mat Sets: Lots of Styles to Choose From

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Coffee Design Kitchen Rug Set

While the 2 Piece Non-Slip Kitchen Mat Set (pictured above: Coffee Design), is shown here under the category Christmas Gift Guide, it may be more appropriate to consider it “FOR MY Kitchen…  Before Christmas”  because most of us like to do a little “sprucing up” before company arrives.

While I love the beautiful designs these mat sets come in, the thing I love the most is the fact that they’re “non-skid” and that their edges won’t “dog ear” like some mats do. Even those with the best intentions tend to do that and it drives me batty.

  • Non-Skid latex rubber backing, fade and wear resistant
  • Absorbs water and dries quickly, protect your kitchen from moisture and stain
  • Package includes 2-piece rugs. Size: 15.7×47.2 inches and 15.7×23.6 inches (40x120cm+40x60cm)
  • Machine Washable, low pile height for easy to clean and vacuum , thin design to fit under doors
  • See Below for some of the other designs available, then click through for the rest!


How the Eat. Feed. Love. Taste Club Can Make You a Better Cook

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Eat Feed Love Taste Club: May's Box, Tea and Flowers
 

Eat. Feed. Love. May’s Taste Club Box
As I said in my first Eat. Feed. Love Taste Club Box Review, this is a subscription box program that every foodie will want to experience. They’re fun, delicious, and.. most importantly… allow you to lend a “helping hand” to communities around us who very much need one.  Money generated through the sell of these wonderful taste club boxes and the Eat. Feed. Love. Online Store trinkle out every which way – like a river of mercy leading straight to the individuals who desperately need someone to care.

Something else about this very special monthly subscription box hit me this morning when I was looking through my gorgeous collection of Taste Club Box recipe cards. I was sorting through them looking for what is now one of my absolute favorite aioli recipes: Tangy Horseradish Mustard Aioli. I happened to think – this particular gourmet food subscription box can actually make good cooks great and great cooks even better.

How? In a word – VARIETY. All truly outstanding cooks cook meals that you you won’t find down the street or across town. They have “tricks up their sleeve” also known as special, unique, and game-changing ingredients.  I’ve always been a huge believer in experimenting with different ingredients, herbs, seasonings, types of salt, various peppercorns, etc. There is absolutely NO better way to do this than with the Eat. Feed. Love. Taste Club.

  1. Eat. Feed. Love. only sends out the best ingredients and foods. If they have affiliated themselves with a company, you can rest assured it is above reproach.
  2. What’s the point of having a brand new ingredient or food to experiment with if you don’t have a little direction? Each month’s box includes recipe cards (have I mentioned that they are gorgeous???) with easy to fix, original, and freaking delicious recipes using your new ingredients.
  3. When you find an ingredient – more like ingredients – you love and want to use again and again, simply go to the Eat. Feed. Love. Store and purchase it – with your money, again, finding its way into people’s lives who need it.

Eat Feed Love Taste Club: May's Box, Tea and Flowers

A LOT of the recipes featured on the cards (over the past three months) have already become personal favorite recipes:

  • Tangy Horseradish Mustard Aioli
  • Grilled Artichoke with Garlic Butter
  • Deviled Eggs with Bacon
  • Lavender Lemonade
  • Spring Pasta Salad (with gluten free pasta)
  • Fried Egg with Bacon Mayo
  • Irish Slaw
  • Mustard Gravy

You can find a lot of highly creative recipes on their website – each recipe will tell you the special ingredient(s) you’ll need.

Now, on to the review of the newest Taste Club Box – a total beauty.

Eat Feed Love Taste Club: May's Box, Tea and Flowers
Eat. Feed. Love. May’s Taste Club Box

May’s Eat. Feed. Love. Taste Club Box Review: Tea and Flowers

As you may, or may not know, in addition to being a food blogger here on Get Cooking, I am also the Crazy Tea Chick.  As you’d expect from someone who calls themselves a crazy tea chick and has their own tea blog, I am obsessed with tea. It’s one of my greatest passions. As it so happens, so are flowers and gardening. So, when I saw that this month’s box was all about “Tea and Flowers,” I pranced around the kitchen a few times.

Anything to amuse the cat.

Spoonable Flowery Lavender Caramel
May’s Taste Club Box Included the Following:

  • Nielsen Massey Rose Water – Nielsen Massey is my “go to” brand for all extracts, so when I saw their name on the label, I knew this was going to be something out of this world. The bottle, itself, is a beauty. So much so that I leave it on the counter rather than hidden away in the spice cabinet. Rose water is great in tea and lemonade and adds personality to rice pudding and ice cream desserts.
  • Flowery Lavender Caramel – Yum! This is another beauty that smells like Heaven. Unfortunately, since it isn’t certified Gluten Free, I can’t (personally) taste it, but my family members tell me it’s delicious on ice cream and even as a dip for sugar cookies.
  • Vanilla Rose Ceylon Tea – I can, and have, been enjoying this tea for all it’s worth! You can read my Vanilla Rose Ceylon Tea Review on my tea blog, Crazy Tea Chick. This is a beautiful, beautiful, beautiful tea. Beautiful.
  • Meyer Lemon Cookies – These beautiful, fragrant little lovelies are another item I couldn’t personally test but, as luck would have it, I have plenty of willing family members. Words I kept hearing again and again were: Lemony!, Delicious, and I wish they had these at the store.
  • Christina Maser Nectarine and Rosemary Jam – When I took my first taste of this jam (gluten free, yay!), my first thought was, “This tastes 100 times better than I expected.” By the time I took my third taste (try not to judge me please), I decided that it tasted 1,000 times better than expected OR than it had a right to taste. This is one outrageously delicious jam and I now want to try every single thing made by Christina Maser.
  • Lavender Infused Simple Syrup – Holy cats, this is outrageously wonderful! First of all, I am obsessed with the scent of lavender. Ironically, I just bought three lavender candles this morning… obsessed. This syrup smells even better than my beloved candles and is delicious. It’s beautiful in tea or water. I have been adding a few drops in bottled water as extra incentive to drink more water. It’s doing the trick! One of the recipe cards in this box was “Lavender Lemonade” which provides the perfect opportunity to use the lavender syrup.
  • Recipe Cards – As is the case with each month’s taste club box, there were beautiful cards featuring great recipes to use each of the fun new ingredients with.

Get 20% Off Items in the Box by Using the Coupon Code: MAYPANTRY

Whether you’re treating yourself or buying a gift that’ll keep giving all year long, check out the Eat. Feed. Love. Taste Club Box – this is something you will quickly become infatuated with. It’ll be something you look forward to with great enthusiasm each month.

Heck, you may even prance a time or two.

Eat Feed Love Taste Club: May's Box, Tea and FlowersLearn more about the exciting Eat. Feed. Love. Taste Club Box!
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Christmas Wishes and an Interview with Cilantro…

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I am smack dab in the middle of baking, cooking, candy-making, wrapping, and…yes!…. last minute shopping. BUT I wanted to take a second and let you know that I was recently interviewed by Cilantro as part of their Expert Interview program. Click here to read the interview!

Please excuse my picture – I am “one of those people” – you know, the ones who run and hide when a camera comes out. So finding a picture was tough. I had one of my daughters snap one while while we were out on a very cold, rainy day.

What part of that even sounds remotely sane? 

Anyway, that’s why I’m bundled up and look like I’m wet and freezing. I was!

At any rate, enjoy the interview – then take a look around their wonderful website.

Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones! – Joi (“Joy”)

iPad or Tablet Stand: Read Recipes or Watch Cooking Videos With Less Haggling

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iPad and Tablet Stand

Follow Your Recipes or Videos as You Make Magic Happen

I’m not sure where this Prepara IPrep Tablet Stand and Stylus has been all my life, but I’m tickled strawberry icing pink that I’ve found it now.

Everyone has their favorite “go to” hobby or pastime, right? The activity that, while engaged, makes the individual smile inside and outside. Mine is cooking and baking… basically anything involved in creating food and or drinks (tea, tea, and more tea) in the kitchen puts me in a state of bliss.

While I love creating my own recipes, I also very much love cooking recipes created by other passionate cooks. If the recipe I’m trying at the time happens to be in one of the cookbooks in my cookbook collection or in an issue of one of my favorite cooking magazines, all is well. I’ve become an expert at book placement.

However, as is often the case, if the recipe is one I found, say on Food Network’s website or Epicurious.com, I need my iPad to sit up sort of like a book. A trick she has not quite mastered.

While browsing Amazon (another “go to” blissful pastime!) yesterday, I came across the Prepara IPrep Tablet Stand and Stylus pictured above and simply said, “Well, there you go.”

I say that very often while browsing Amazon if we’re being honest.

Prepara IPrep Tablet Stand and Stylus Description:

Kindles, iPad and Tablets are ideal companions in the kitchen: they make it easy to follow a recipe online, watch a cooking show, plan a meal or view images of finished dishes. The challenge is keeping your tablet safe and clean while you slice, dice, mix, measure and stir. The iPrep was designed to securely bring your tablet into the kitchen and fits all popular tablets: iPad, iPad Mini, Kindle, Kindle Fire, Microsoft Surface, Samsung Galaxy and more. Prepara’s iPrep is an adjustable stand that will hold your tablet upright in portrait or landscape position, for easy viewing. The base is weighted for stability and the back is adjustable (simply press the hinge release button) and offers four usable viewing angles. The back features a non-slip rubber grip to hold the tablet in place. An integrated stylus pen fits neatly into the base and is ideal for keeping the screen clean from messy hands. When not in use, the iPrep folds flat and for convenient storage.

Features:

  • Fits all popular tablets: Kindle, Kindle Fire, iPad, iPad Mini, Surface and Galaxy
  • The iPrep is an easy and secure way to use your tablet in the kitchen
  • Integrated stylus pen stores in the base for convenient access, use the stylus to keep screens clean from messy hands
  • Four adjustable angles to position the tablet for ideal viewing
  • Non-slip rubber grip: tablets can be used vertically or horizontally

Not only Would this tablet stand be ideal for following recipes, it’d be possibly even more helpful when following along with a cooking video – following along as Rachael Ray, Alton Brown, or the Pioneer Woman whip up something wonderful has never been easier.

See Prepara IPrep Tablet Stand and Stylus for more information. This would make a great Christmas gift idea for any foodie – after, of course, you buy one for yourself.

Hey, you have to try it out first, right?! Well, there you go.

Rachael Ray Garbage Bowl… Wouldn’t Take Anything for Mine

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Rachael Ray Garbage Bowl

Rachael Ray Garbage Bowl

My family knows me. They know the good, the bad, and the… well, never you mind about the rest.  Knowing me like they do, they know that, whether it’s birthday, anniversary, Mother’s Day, or Christmas, buying me anything with Rachael Ray’s name on it is a very safe bet.

I’ve collected Rachael Ray cookbooks, dishes, and kitchen tools for as long as I can remember. The bright, happy, vivid colors combined with unsurpassed durability and functionality rock my culinary world.

I even buy Rachael Ray products for my daughters – in each one’s kitchen colors. Not only do I know they’ll use (and love) them daily… I know they’ll think about me each time they do.

Win, WIN!

Rachael Ray Garbage Bowl

Fun and Functional

This beautiful purple Rachael Ray Garbage Bowl was actually given to me as a gift a few years ago.  I recently came across the pictures in my iPhone and realized I’d never written a review on this kitchen favorite.

Duh on me!

When the garbage bowls first came out, in spite of being a Rachael Ray Kitchen Tool junkie, I never bought one for myself because (to be honest) I wasn’t sure I’d even use it. I thought, “Yes, it’s beautiful and yes, it’s Rachael Ray… but I just toss my trash in a Kroger bag as I cook.”

Fast Forward to today… I have used this bowl every single day since receiving it two years ago. Every. Single. Day. It’s just unspeakably convenient to throw peels, cans, rubber bands, foil, etc into as I’m cooking.  Grabbing the bowl before I start baking or cooking is as automatic as putting on a seat belt when I get in a car.

Not only is the bowl, somehow, just fun to use, it also looks a heckuva lot better sitting on the counter than a grocery bag. What’s more, there’s  no “seeping” through or “spilling out” like you get with a grocery bag.

Sloppy.

The great looking Rachael Ray Garbage Bowl is available on Amazon in the following colors: purple, red, orange, dark green, green, and blue.

Click through for more information about what will become your next favorite kitchen tool. When you click through, you can even see a short little video of Rachael Ray explaining where the idea of the Garbage Bowl came from.

Rachael Ray Garbage Bowl


King of Pop Patriotic Gourmet Popcorn: Cherry, Blueberry, and Kettle Corn

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King of Pop Patriotic Popcorn

King of Pop Patriotic Popcorn

As I’ve said several times on Get Cooking, I’m a huge fan of Gourmet Gift Baskets.com. HUGE. The idea of giving delicious gifts (always the right fit, size, and color) just really floats my boat.

The fact that everything Gourmet Gift Baskets is absolute perfection makes that same boat skip across the water!

What you see pictured here is from one of Gourmet Gift Baskets companies, King of Pop. This is the beautiful and delicious King of Pop Patriotic Popcorn: Cherry Blueberry, and Kettle Corn. You get the cherry and blueberry flavors along with the GREAT flavor of the kettle corn.

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King of Pop Gourmet Red White and Blue Popcorn

King of Pop Patriotic Popcorn

These tins are available on both Gourmet Gift Baskets and King of Pop – same price, same fast delivery, same ease of purchase. The choice is yours.

I read on one of the websites where someone left a comment saying they wished the tins were more “patriotic,” maybe with a flag or something.  I’d have to politely disagree a little. I love for tins to be reusable as much as possible and think that a solid color or a handsome design (like the one here) is right on the money.

In fact, this Patriotic Blend isn’t just perfect for the Fourth of July, President’s Day, Patriot’s Day, or Flag Day – it’s IDEAL for those of you who are Patriots fans or would make a perfect gift for the Patriots fan in your life.

Same would hold true for Texas Rangers fans and other sports teams with the colors red, white, and blue.

If the tin were decorated solely for the Fourth of July (or President’s Day, Patriot’s Day…), it’d be a little awkward to give as a gift on any other day.

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King of Pop Gourmet Patriotic Popcorn
King of Pop Patriotic Popcorn
See either Gourmet Gift Baskets or King of Pop for ordering information. I’m honestly not sure how many days it’d take to get to you, but you may very well be able to order it now and have it in time for the Fourth of July.

How cool would that be?

Either way, this popcorn blend is absolutely delicious as well – and gorgeous to boot.

King of Pop Patriotic Popcorn

Cake Boss Mixing Bowls: SO Pretty and SO Useful

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Cake Boss Mixing Bowls

I have a new obsession in the kitchen: Cake Boss Mixing Bowls. One of the gifts from my oldest daughter (Emily) for Mother’s Day was a gift bag filled with Cake Boss Bowls: The Cake Boss 2-Piece Melamine Mixing Bowl Set (the pink and blue bowls) and Cake Boss Melamine Mixing Bowl , Small (yellow).

She’d seen that I’d written about them before here on the food blog and knew I’d love to actually have a set of my own.

I LOVE when my family reads (and catches!) my not-so-subtle hints!

These bowls are even more adorable in person. They’re fun, colorful, high-quality, and uber functional. I’ve lost count of the number of times I’ve used mine since Mother’s Day. I use them for waffles, cakes, cupcakes, whipped cream, beating eggs, cakes, cookies, and on and on.

I also use them for their looks – as in setting them out prominently to show off and look pretty!

  • Each mixing bowl is crafted from durable yet lightweight melamine and designed with a rubberized base for stability (no chasing the bowl across the counter top); top-rack dishwasher safe.  They are exceptionally unique and unbelievably good looking. I just love the retro look of these bowls.
  • They have cool little rims as handles on one side pour spouts on the other for pouring.
  • I also love that they’re “nestable” – fitting beautifully one within the other, with room to spare – so they don’t rub up against one another

These beautiful bowls are absolute perfection. Click through any of the links below for more information.

Cake Boss Mixing Bowls

See more Cake Boss Bowls on Amazon!