Arpita’s Mix of East and West Coast — Small Cool Kitchens 2013

Name:
Arpita
Location:
Brooklyn, NY
Square Feet:
67
Division:
Own
What makes your small kitchen so cool:
I grew up in Los Angeles and live in Brooklyn now. My kitchen has gorgeous Spanish Colonial tiles that remind me of California, but it also works with the space limitations of a NY apartment, incorporating floor to ceiling cabinets and compact appliances. The result is a mix of East Coast and West Coast, and I love it!

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Christopher & Emmy’s Personal Built-from-Scratch Kitchen — Small Cool Kitchens 2013

Name:
Christopher
Location:
Manhattan, KS
Square Feet:
110
Division:
Own
What makes your small kitchen so cool:
To us, our kitchen is great because we’ve gotten to experiment and build it ourselves since we bought this house, our first, on Halloween. We’ve done everything since the ‘before’ image from scratch, just the two of us. We feel like that makes it about as personal as it can be.

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Mastrad Bread Warmer — Product Review

Item: Mastrad Bread Warmer
Price: $39.99
Overall Impression: Versatile for outdoor meals in the summer and holiday meals in the fall and winter. Worth picking up if you like your rolls warm and do a lot of entertaining.

Warm bread that’s fresh from the oven is pretty much the best thing ever, no matter the occasion, no matter the time of year. Wrapping warm rolls in a clean dishtowel helps hold in the warmth for a little while — this bread warmer from Mastrad takes things one step further. With its heatable ceramic liner, this basket will keep our rolls toasty from the start of dinner all the way through to second and third helpings.

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Debra’s Improved, Much-Loved Kitchen — Small Cool Kitchens 2013

Name:
Debra
Location:
South Burlington, VT
Square Feet:
90
Division:
Own
What makes your small kitchen so cool:
The coolest thing about our kitchen is functionality. Our renovation improved function and safety without changing the footprint or emptying our savings. Now our kitchen makes friends easily and works well with others!

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hot fudge sundae cake

hot. fudge. sundae. cake.

I realize that given the sheer number of two and three-layered, springform-bound and buttercream-shellacked celebration cakes I keep in the archives, you’d imagine that I had some pretty spectacular birthday cakes growing up. You’d be correct, but they were almost never homemade, not because I was suffering from cake-neglect, but because the only one I requested every year for my birthday was an ice cream cake, preferably from Carvel. Okay, insistently from Carvel, you know, the one in the strip mall at the end of the main road. The Carvel ice cream cake was, to me, as perfect as a June birthday cake could be — a layer each of chocolate and vanilla ice creams, separated by a smattering of Oreo-ish cookie rubble, coated with a suspiciously unbuttery buttercream and scattered with colored sprinkles. It was perfect. I loved it. I saw no reason anything should ever change.

cocoa + dark chocolate + cream = hoorayvanilla cream + chocolate creamegg whites, milk, vanilla cream, yolks, chocolate creammaking custard for both flavors at once

And it might not have, except nowadays I have this problem, which is that when I vocalize the daydreamy ideas that pass through my head, such as, “I wonder what it would be like to make an ice cream cake from scratch… no, a sundae cake … no! A hot fudge sundae cake, with hot fudge and whipped cream and those awful-but-I-love-them jarred cherries…” instead of my so-called loved ones saying, “That’s ridiculous. Why would you make that if we could buy it at a store?” they encourage me. No, they goad me. Then they applaud my efforts and say “Again!” (True story: We think “Again!” exclaimed with glee, was the kid’s first word.) And then things like this happen.

trying out the new ice cream bowl

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