Kitchen Tools

I love anything kitchen. So if I am near a Williams-Sonoma or Spoon's and Spice, I stop in and just browse.. People love cars, books, or clothes, I love kitchen tools.

With a new sugar cookie and donut recipe, I learned a couple of new tricks of getting them the perfect thickness.
So I put my honey to work in the wood shop and saved me some dough. :)

I had the standard size rolling pin, but I saw Alton Brown rolling out his donut dough with a little bit of a longer one. The reason is so that he could roll it along these handy little sticks. They are cut at 3/4 of an inch thick so that your dough will roll out to that measurement.
Now with sugar cookie dough, you don't want it that thick, so I have a set that is 1/4 of an inch. The perfect sugar cookie.



If you don't have a wood shop or a honey in a wood shop, I did find some plastic rings and a long rolling pin at Williams-Sonoma that do the same thing. Also the sticks can be found at any craft store in different thickness's.

enjoy!

Big fluffy donuts

As another Halloween tradition that started way back when and I brought back a couple of years ago is homemade donuts.
I have tried a couple of different recipes and this years is the one I am sticking with.
They were so good. One of my fav's from food network is Alton Brown. (here it is) I love how he gets so scientific about stuff and really explains things. Try it out. I think I will try a maple glaze next time.
Good thing I only got one and the rest got gobbled up, they would have been dangerous lying around.