May 2011
3 posts
Quick Pops by Zoku
Just in time for summer, we are stocking the new popsicle maker set by Zoku. It works like a modern ice cream machine; you keep the non-electric quick pop maker in the freezer and then make pops whenever the mood strikes. Pops freeze in 7-9 minutes, just pour in juice and watch it freeze. Add fruit slices, candy, nuts, or make stripes with yogurt for a one-of-a-kind pop! We have a tool kit, pop...
Paper Bake-ware
From Welcome Home Brands, we just received a wide variety of paper bake-ware. Perfect for baking as much or as little batter as you need, the many sizes and shapes of paper bake-ware are oven safe to 400 degrees, freezable, and perfect for gift-giving. When baking a beautiful gift cake, there is no need to ask for the container back! We have two sizes of miniature tube pans, red heart pans, and...
Locally Made Pie Birds
Stacey, of Two Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, was here with us last Saturday at ShopHop, showing off her hand-painted pie birds and spoon rests. Pie birds vent steam so your juicy, two-crust fruit pies down boil over in the oven. They are very cute and collectible and Stacey will personalize them at no extra charge! Perfect for any gift-giving occasion, the turn around time is short because...
April 2011
4 posts
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Spring ShopHop
Don’t miss the Spring ShopHop when 9 local businesses offer special discounts, samples, raffles, and fun.Here’s how it works: Visit any of our ShopHop businesses and pick up a map and a ShopHop shopping bag. Get your map card stamped at each shop and then you will be entered into a drawing for ShopHop merchants’ gift cards worth $225! ShopHop businesses are: Antique Cottage &...
A Good Story
At our Show N’ Shine last Tuesday (for Kool April Nights) we raffled off two cooking classes as a fundraiser for the Wounded Warrior Project. (For more information on how to get involved with this wonderful organization, visit their web page: www.woundedwarriorproject.org) That day we also had a pressure cooking and canning class with Chef Pam. We offered our raffle tickets to the...
Babycakes Cupcake Maker
It’s electric! It bakes 8 mini cupcakes in 5-8 minutes! It’s pink! It’s the cutest electric gadget we’ve gotten in is quite some time. Priced at 39.99, it’s a very cool thing for Grandma or Mom to do with the kids and would be very fun at a children’s birthday party. It comes with a little cookbook with some interesting ideas, not all cupcake-related, such as...
March 2011
5 posts
Cast Iron Cooking Season
It’s been so nice to see the sun, after so much rain! It’s going to a beautiful summer. We are getting geared up for the outdoor season by receiving a big Lodge cast iron cookware shipment in readiness for our Dutch Oven cooking class, Saturday, April 9th. We have lots of the Dutch ovens with legs and the special lids used for holding charcoal and plenty of Dutch ovens for indoor...
Escali Scales
We received our compact-sized kitchen scales from Escali, the Pico series. They retail for 23.95 and have all the functions and features of their bigger counterparts. The scale, measuring a little bit over 3” by 4”, weighs up to eleven pounds by ounces or grams. The Pico comes in black, soft green, red, royal blue, and silver gray.
New from Escali is the digital luggage scale in a...
Take A Lunch and Save!
Shown: Lunch cube
We have everything you need to bring your lunch to work or school and save yourself some money. Made in New Zealand, the Klip It line of BPA-free containers come in fun colors and are dishwasher, microwave, and freezer safe. For sandwiches, the Lunch Cube has separate compartments: one side fits a sandwich and the other side is divided to hold fruit, crackers, or other snacks....
Slather Sauce
By California standards, the tasty “hot” Slather Sauce isn’t very hot but it is really delicious. Made in South Carolina, Shari and Marsha sampled it at the show and ordered the original Slather Sauce in the blue packaging and the tiny bit spicier red-labeled version. Chef Pam recently mixed both together to make the sauce for her pressure-cooked pulled pork sliders and that...
Housewares Show
Shari and Marsha are on their annual buying trip to the Chicago Housewares show, checking out the latest innovations in cookware, electronics, and gadgets. They also make orders from favorite vendors such as the cast iron purveyors Lodge Logic and Escali, from whom we get the cool miniature food scales. Also in Spring buying news, we’ve met with our cookbook rep, Diane, and our new cookbooks...
February 2011
1 post
Tea Pots
At market this past January, Shari and Marsha ordered from a company called Coastline which specializes in traditional bone china tea pots, cups and saucers, and tea sets. Our shipment just arrived and we love the selection of beautiful porcelain tea pots that we received. Come in soon to see the pansies, roses, pinecone, and lemon decorated tea ware. Shown here is the lemon tea-for-one: charming!...
January 2011
5 posts
Chocolate Class 2/26/11
Come taste new chocolate sensations at Chef Jadda’s All Chocolate Class, Saturday morning, February 26th, 10:30am to 1:00pm. Fee is $50 per student. Pam made her Chocolate Gelato to sample today and it’s heavenly! If you are in town, come and sample it, too. Jadda will be making coffee floats with the gelato as well as a layered cheesecake made with dark, milk, and white chocolates....
Romantic V-Day Cookie Class
Join the most romantic bakers when we decorate dozens of heart-shaped sugar cookies in our Valentine’s Day Decorated Cookie class, Saturday morning, February 5th, 10:30am to around 1:00pm. This hands-on class will give ample opportunity to practice your fine decorating skills and go home with beautifully decorated cookies to share with your Valentine…or not!
Cast Iron from Lodge
We just received our cast iron cookware shipment from Lodge Manufacturing, in Tennessee. If you missed out on that cast iron skillet you had your heart set on at Christmas time, come in and shop our best selection now. Lodge is so well-made and popular with folks here in the North state that it just flies out of the store! One of the favorites is the super fun Danish pancake puff pan, the...
Shari and Marsha Off to Market!
It’s that time of year again when the gals travel to distant states to see the newest items the housewares markets have to offer. It is always fun to see what products will begin showing up in our receiving department a few weeks after they get back. We are also doing our annual counting, considering what sold well last year and what we think people would like this year. Items are going into...
Happy New Year
We made it through another busy holiday season here at That Kitchen Place, thanks to all our wonderful friends and customers! We are now busy cleaning and restocking. Our usual fifty percent off area is now at seventy-five percent off and the holiday merchandise is now at fifty percent off. Victoria has completely redesigned the linen and apron room and we think it will be much easier to see...
December 2010
1 post
Merry Christmas!
Merry Christmas from everyone at That Kitchen Place.
November 2010
6 posts
Everything Knives!
Don’t forget to bring your knives this Saturday for our sharpening event from 11:00am to 1:00pm, taught by our friendly Wusthof rep, Kyle Hogan. The first two knives are free, the next three knives are two dollars each. It’s first come, first served so add it to your calender. In the afternoon, Kyle will be teaching a knife skills class from 1:30pm to 3:00pm. It’s a great...
Cooking Classes for 2011
Our last cooking class of 2010 will be next Saturday the 20th. Kyle from Wusthof will be doing a highly informative knife skills class at 1:30pm. He will also be doing knife sharpening in store from 11:00am to 1:00pm the same day. We scheduled it for the Saturday before Thanksgiving so everyone could come in and get their knives sharpened just in time for Thanksgiving cooking. It makes food prep...
Butter Boats Have Landed
Just in time for the holiday entertaining season, Butter Boats by Silvermark have arrived at That Kitchen Place. They work on the same principle as our beloved Butter Bells but are large enough to accommodate a whole stick of butter without first softening; just place a stick of butter in the top dish, fill the bottom dish with cool water to the fill line and serve! Butter keeps soft and fresh at...
Annalee 75th Anniversary Diamond Giveaway
To honor their “Diamond Anniversary,” the Annalee Doll Company is giving away a one-carat diamond pendant or five thousand dollars in cash! No purchase is necessary to enter and we have entry forms in the store. It’s also possible to enter at their website, www.annalee.com. All entries must be in before December. We have a large selection of Annalee fall and holidays figures,...
Cookies and ShopHop
We’re revving up for a big day tomorrow. Both our Italian Christmas Cookie class and the holiday ShopHop is going on. Pam has been baking all day and Vikki is mixing up dips to sample along with spicy meatballs for sampling tomorrow. We put all our fall decor right in the front of the store to make room for the holiday products we displayed up by the tableware area. We’ve got to trees...
Game and Sausage Seasonings
Just in time for our North State hunting seasons, we are carrying Camerons Products seasonings, brines, and sausage mixes. Camerons Products makes our popular Stove-top Smokers. Our three brine flavors are: salt cure, salmon/trout brine, and jerky brine. The four sausage seasonings we selected are: hot and spicy, summer sausage, elk and venison, and Polish sausage mix. The four seasoning/rub...
October 2010
7 posts
Thank-you!
Our Dinner Party/Cooking Class cancer research fundraiser was a big success. Through class sales, raffle tickets, and generous donations from our amazing customers, we raised over seventeen hundred dollars! And it was a lot of fun. Sarah and Anne Lemon will be walking in the Three-Day Walk for a Cure later this month and they both served in the class and are getting revved up for their event. It...
Waffle Time
Moving into fall weather (finally!) it’s time for hot, hearty breakfasts. Waffles are on the top of our list for festive breakfasts. We carry an assortment of waffle iron brands: Waring Pro, Cuisinart, Chef’s Choice, Cucina Pro, both traditional style and the deeper Belgian style. In our food room, we have many syrups to chose from, including maple from Vermont and Maine, guava,...
Think Pink!
We are getting ready for our super-fun evening dinner party/class/fundraiser next Thursday, the 28th, 6:00pm to 8:30pm. Shari and Marsha and the boys did a trial run through of the whole menu and it was a big hit! The gals will start off with Paula Deen’s Tomato Tart appetizer then Rob and Bob will be making Caprese Salad with Avocado, Chicken Provencal, and Broccoli with Cheese Sauce. Chef...
Fall Baking with Nordic Ware
Two new fall shapes of Made-in-America Bundt-type pans have come in and one even is cuter than the other! Autumn Wreath is a 10 cup round pan with clusters of acorns and maple leaf designs all over it—perfect for a pumpkin spice cake, and as with most Nordic Ware pans, they provide the recipe right on the label. The other new pan is the Acorn Cakelet pan which lets you sandwich two acorn...
Is There a Hunter at Your House?
Just in time for hunting season, we received five new cookbooks on wild game cookery: “Cookin’ Wild Game,” “The Complete Book of Butchering, Smoking, Curing, and Sausage Making,” “Venison Cookery,” “America’s Favorite Wild Game Recipes,” and “Preparing Fish and Wild Game.” We are also carrying jerky spice seasoning kits in...
Thursday the 28th--Don't miss it!
Our fundraiser/class/dinner party on October 28th is going to a blast! When Rob and Bob start cooking, who know what will happen…Luckily, Shari, Marsha, and Chef Pam will be there to keep the ball rolling. Dinner is going to be delicious, starting with Paula Deen’s decadent Tomato tarts followed by Rob’s old family recipe for Chicken Provencal with Caprese Salad and broccoli with...
Think Pink Month
Each October we gear up our fundraising efforts for breast cancer research. This October we have a display right when you come in the front door of pink merchandise. Twenty percent of the purchase price of any pink item purchased all month will be donated to the local chapter of the Soroptimists and the Susan G. Komen3-Day Walk for the Cure. We are also offering an evening cooking class on...
September 2010
10 posts
American-Made Cookware
We are now carrying a full line of Regal cookware made in Kewaskum, Wisconsin, USA. The American Kitchen line is made of 18/10 stainless steel with a reinforced aluminum core base and a stay-cool handle. They carry a 25 year warranty and are dish washer and oven-safe. They work on all stove tops including induction. Along with frying pans, saute pans, and steam inserts, we also have stainless...
Saveur Magazine
Since the demise of the beloved Gourmet magazine, we’ve been casting about for a worthy replacement; Bon Jour magazine just wasn’t cutting it. Luckily, we found Saveur magazine which features beautiful photos, great articles, and tasty-sounding recipes, just like our old friend Gourmet. We have signed on to sell Saveur here in the store and our first issue, last month, sold out in a...
Annalee
Decorating holiday homes for 75 years, Annalee figures are sweet, collectible, and available now at That Kitchen Place. We have a large selection of fall and Halloween figures: witches, black cats, and cute little mice peeping around leaves and gourds or in little red wagons. There is also a not-too-scary centerpiece with a purple witches hat, spider web, black cat, and a skull that lights up....
Soup Weather
Our thoughts turn immediately to soup when the weather cools down. Since everyone is so busy, we usually make our long-simmered soups in a slow cooker. We stock several brands and sizes of slow cookers to accommodate most family sizes. Pam’s soup class next Saturday features her family’s traditional Italian soup recipes with instructions for making them in the slow cooker. Check out...
Fondant!
We know many of you bakers are doing cool, creative things with fondant so we are stocking Satin Ice, vanilla flavored fondant, in the two pound and five pound buckets. I’m told the Satin Ice is much tastier than the other available brands and is extremely easy to work with. We are also stocking more fondant tools, from extra large rolling mats (24” x 36”) to tool sets, revolving...
Kookaburra Liquorice
The “tasty treat from down under,” Kookaburra old fashioned red and black licorice, is back in stock. The Australian company has been making licorice for sixty years and uses real licorice extract in the soft, traditional black candy. Get a bag today, you deserve a treat!
New Red Teas
From tea importer Republic of Tea, we have several new flavors of red tea, a non-caffeinated herb named rooibos (pronounced roy-boss) grown in South Africa. With more powerful antioxidants than green tea, red teas are delicious and come flavored with ginger peach, vanilla, caramel apple, and cinnamon orange, all naturally non-caffeinated. Pomegranate vanilla red tea is a low-caffeinated tea. All...
Granola
To celebrate the first cool days of fall, bake up a batch of granola. Preheat oven to 325 degrees. In a large microwaveable bowl, stir together 1/2 cup honey (or maple syrup,) 1/2 cup brown sugar, 1/3 cup vegetable oil, 1-2 teaspoons vanilla, and 1/2 teaspoon real almond extract or baking emulsion, if desired. Microwave on high for one minute, stir, repeat, stirring every 30 seconds until mixture...
Candy Class Just Added
Just in time for holiday gift-giving, we just added a candy making class Saturday, October 2, at 10:30am. Our cheese making teacher, Sandee Betterton, is going to teach students a perfect peanut brittle recipe, almond rocca, and flavored lollipops. She made us a big batch to sample so come into the store this week to taste this wonderful, not-too-hard peanut brittle. She’ll also show...
Fall!
Victoria has put outtwo fall displays of fall decor, linens, and stoneware. We have a beautiful selection of April Cornell tablecloths, place mats, aprons, and napkins in rich fall colors.They look wonderfully seasonal paired with carved Thanksgiving figurines, pheasant-shaped bowls, and gravy boats. We still have one of our Peggy Karr turkey platters on 50% off! Shop early for best fall...
August 2010
7 posts
Coffee Sale and New Cones
Our Godiva flavored coffees are on sale this week, any flavor, for $7.99. I was poking around the coffee section and came upon a customer-requested item: coffee filter cones made from porcelain! Some folks do not like the idea of their coffee being made in a plastic cone so we found these ceramic alternatives made in Germany, by Cilio. They come in two sizes, #4 and #6. Another cool filter cone...
Grilled Eggplant Panini
A great summer use for the BBQ or grill pan is grilled eggplant slices and red peppers. Heat up your grill pan or BBQ and slice eggplants 1/3” thick. Cut red bell peppers in wide slices, removing seeds. Brush with olive oil that has a clove of garlic smashed into it, season with salt and pepper. Grill veggies until slightly charred and eggplant is soft in the center. You can serve with...
2 New Gadgets and A Heart Pan
I was gone for a few days and when I came back I found some cool new stuff hidden around the store. We’ve have had requests for a curly fry maker and from Progressive company comes the Curly Fry Cutter which is dishwasher safe and costs $29.75! The next gadget is for those who like things a little decorative: a heart-shaped appetizer cutter made in France for $25.50. It is 1” across,...
An Apron for Every Taste
I think we have the biggest apron selection I’ve ever seen. I took a quick rummage through our apron selection this morning and found these brands: Attitude Aprons for funny sayings like “Don’t Cook Bacon Naked,” beautiful Heavenly Hostess aprons that are so well-crafted that they are reversible, and Two Lumps of Sugar aprons which are 100% cotton but coated with plastic so...
Our Old Favorite
Some of you probably grew up using The Settlement Cookbook, The Joy of Cooking, or Betty Crocker but several of us gals here grew up with different versions of The Fannie Farmer Cookbook and it will forever be our go-to reference. The original was written in 1896 by Boston cooking teacher Fannie Merritt Farmer and was updated by Fannie herself up until 1915. Bay Area restaurateur Marion Cunningham...
SodaStream
Several customers requested SodaStream by name; it makes regular tap water into sparkling water which can be used as is or to make your own flavored sodas. One C02 carbonator equals 60 bottles of soda. We brought in a few SodaStream kits and after serving sample sodas at our 6th birthday party, the kits flew out of the store! We’ve reordered several times and today we received more kits and...
Dog Days of Summer
During the month of August, That Kitchen Place joins with other local businesses in helping Haven Humane Society by asking our customers to donate pet food, blankets, or toys. Participants will be rewarded with ten percent off purchases (excluding electrics and knives.) Stop by That Kitchen Place or click on www.shohopredding.comfor more information on this or the QueenBee Shopping Spree going on...
July 2010
10 posts
A Personal Gift for the Bride
Along with many wedding gifts we get to help pick out and wrap, we hear a lot about bridal showers: gifts, decorations, cakes, and themes. Many times, mothers of the bridal couple come in to buy recipe boxes and matching cards to write out favorite recipes for the couple in their new home. Modern mothers choose pretty printable papers that fill matching recipe binders. Some shower hostesses...