Christmas gifts for the cook (2010)

[andiesenji]

One of Santa's helpers, aka the UPS man, deliverd my rice cooker yesterday. I was going to wait until after Christmas but what the heck, we made jasmine rice to go with our sausage and lentil soup last night. The rice was perfect and I love the songs the cooker plays!

I have a book I think You'll love. The Ultimate Rice Cooker by Beth Hensperger and Julie Kaufmann. Great book.

I second the motion! It is a great book and worth every penny. (Ditto her slow cooker and microwave books but the rice cooker book is the gem in the crown.)

[nakji]

So...what else did we get?

I got a 24 cm suribachi, which will help me immeasurably with my goma-ae.

I also got another silicon spatula, a 2L Chinese claypot (!), and some 5 yr. balsamic.

[Mjx]

I was just given a Jennings CJ-4000 lab scale :smile: This is brilliant, because the kitchen scale in residence devoured batteries, was given to going dead at the most inconvenient moments (the lab scale has an auxiliary power cord, in case the batteries die and there are no extras about) and was only accurate to a gram (and I have grave doubts about that), while the Jennings is accurate to half a gram, and has a cover that doubles as a measuring dish.