Liquor Up the Customers
The kitchen tools I currently use to create a salad: bowl, knife, cutting board.
The kitchen tools my Pampered Chef consultant suggests I use to create a salad: stainless mixing bowl with silicone bottom, prep bowls, crinkle cutter, Chillzanne bowl, food chopper, egg slicer, cutting board, knife with sharpening case, chef's tongs, garlic press, measure-mix-and-pour, and the Ultimate Slice & Grate.
Since I am smart enough to know that all these tools would not simplify my life and would simply take up more room in my tiny kitchen, I vowed not to buy much, if anything at all, at the Pampered Chef Party I attended this week.
And, yet, I somehow ended up purchasing a deluxe mini-muffin pan, a mini-tart shaper, a crinkle cutter, and small bowl caddy set, enough merchandise to qualify me for the free batter bowl. Free! But not really free, as I remember writing a check for these items, which are going to help me cut cucumbers prettier and make cute mini tarts (tarts? what was I thinking? what is a tart anyway?).
It was the champagne shopping.
Ah yes... culinary crack. It's best just to avoid those neighborhoods that push it. Heh.
Posted by: Wende | July 08, 2006 at 09:59 AM
Pampered Chef parties are seriously dangerous. At the last one I went to I ended up practicing lots of self-restraint and just bought a whisk and an orange peeler. Oh, and a brush that you use to brush on egg washes and stuff like that.:-/
Posted by: Sijbrich | July 08, 2006 at 12:20 PM
I am a tart.
Just wanted to make sure we had that cleared up, Janet.
(Hee!)
Posted by: Alexandrialeigh | July 08, 2006 at 05:57 PM
Heh, kitchen stuff will get you everytime! Especially when champagne is being consumed. ;-)
Posted by: chronicler | July 08, 2006 at 07:27 PM
Is champagne shopping anything like drunk dialing? If so, both should be avoided, and those punks at Bloomingdales have a pact with the devil and moet that made me buy that dress that makes my boobs look even tinier than they already are.
Posted by: Cat | July 09, 2006 at 07:27 AM
I personally like to grab a cocktail or two and wander up and down State Street with a girlfriend. Usually we end up with a weird $16.00 tank top and a lot of comments to the effect of, "I could TOtally make this!". Its loads of fun - at times we wander into Sur la Table (its like P.C. as a store) but I usually head right out, since I know I'd end up with a set of those mini enameled, cast-iron lidded cassoulet dishes (I think they come in pink, btw). Which would result in my husband asking a lot of embarassing questions like, "Do you know what a cassoulet IS?", etc.
Don't drink n' shop...it's dangerous! Great post!
Posted by: Meepers | July 09, 2006 at 11:45 AM
WHAT? You didn't buy the Rosemary & Lemon Hand Soap/Hand Lotion thingy for you rsink? What is worng with you. Your mother raised you better than this!
Seriously.
Rosemary AND Lemon.
Sheesh.
Posted by: katey | July 09, 2006 at 06:14 PM
Haha! I guess that's why they serve alcohol at those parties. The inhibitions are lowered...especially when it comes to buying things that you wouldn't normally buy!
I see a post about tart-making in your future! :)
Posted by: Zandria | July 10, 2006 at 07:20 AM
I think kitchen utensils are the most useless things possible to buy, yet are the things you always look at and screech, "But I NEED it!" At least, that's what I do...
Posted by: Jen | July 10, 2006 at 08:11 AM
CRINKLE CUTTERS RULE
you can cut any veggie and make it fancy! salads taste great with
crinkle cut cukes and radishes
YUMM-O!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: marisa | July 11, 2006 at 06:12 AM