Category Archives: Apartment Life

The Dough Scraper: Useful and Space Effective

 
One of my most-used kitchen tools these days is the dough scraper.  Mundane, yes, but also quite useful, and not just for its eponymous purpose.  As of late, I’ve been using it to slice brownies or bar cookies in their pans.  The user holds the handle on the top of the scraper, using a downward [...]

Sunday Project: Kitchen Workstation

Like most city-dwellers I know, I am cursed with a particularly tiny kitchen. As such, I’m constantly struggling to negotiate what little space I have, both to work effectively and to turn out a decent-looking and -tasting product, be it a layer cake or a fried egg.
My creative process is usually divided, more or [...]

In Praise of the Toaster Oven

For the past week-and-a-half, the gas in my apartment building has been disconnected (as those who know me are surely sick of hearing about). Finally, after much frustration, complaining, and crying (yes, really), the light shone through the clouds: why not try to bake in a toaster oven? In a tiny apartment equipped with an [...]