Olive Oil Mister

I am definitely in that category of people who never measures his/her olive oil when cooking. It's too boring a detail for me to get on board with, I'm sorry. And I know this is a problem 'cause I always overuse my olive oil, which is a shame because you only really need a spritz of it to be cool.

Enter THIS OIL MISTER! I saw this at Crate & Barrel a few weeks ago and it's almost heavenly. Not only does having it cut down your olive oil intake (while saving you money on not having to buy so much olive oil) but it's also fun as hell to use. You're trying to tell me that you don't find joy in misting a pan before using it? You don't see the beauty of a freshly-misted salad? You don't dream of the day you organize your own dinner party solely for the purpose of walking around a dining room table asking if anyone needs anything "misted tableside"? THAT'S NOT YOU?! Okay, maybe that last one is just me. But still. Everyone should own this mister. Or at least everyone with a kitchen and a dream. 

Sidenote: Happy Birthday to one of the best humans I know, my brother Robbie. You're amazing to everyone who knows you and I'll never know how you find enough hours in the day to be such an incredible man. I'm lucky as hell to have you in my life and I've been thankful for that since the whole nipple incident all those many years ago. One day, I promise I'll stop telling that story to people. Love you, brother.

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Baked Apple Roses

Do I have to express to you HOW HARD I would make these if/when I ever have a dinner party? Do I really have to inform you of such an obvious thought? The only thing that could make this gorgeous little dessert better would be vanilla ice cream served alongside it. 

Someone give me a beautiful kitchen with a fully functioning oven so I can make these dreams happen.

Pasta Measuring Tool

Leftover pasta is usually always (but sometimes not) gross, can we agree on that? And I'm always making too much or too little of it since, well, I'll never fully understand things like ounces, grams and "serving sizes." I'm sorry, but they didn't any of this stuff in school like they should have. 

Solution? This guy. 

Photo Credit: Joseph Joseph

Why the hell am I only learning NOW that these exist? It's $10 and handy as hell to have in a kitchen. 

Rice Cooker & Steamer

Am I eventually going to recommend every single household appliance to you? Possibly. Well, probably not a bread maker since they're the biggest, most useless things a person can own. But everything else in Williams-Sonoma? I want it all. 

The fact that this is a rice cooker and a steamer? Get the hell out. I've only had it a short while (thank you, Marla!), but I've wanted one for a long time and it's fulfilled so many of my kitchen dreams. You ever steam something as a side dish for dinner? People take you seriously the day you undertake a task like that. Also, owning one of these signifies the end of sad, sad era of standing over a pot of rice hoping that it doesn't burn or become mush.

If you make rice more than twice a week, it makes zero sense for you not to have one of these. 

Anthropologie's Kitchen Items

Do you see these bowls? DO YOU SEE THEM?! They're STORAGE CONTAINER bowls. Why are they so gorgeous? Oh, I don't know - maybe because some genius came up with the idea that EVERYTHING CAN BE PRETTY. 

This is coming across as angry and I'm really not mad right now. It just makes me sort of (pathetically) excited (just a bit) to know that containers like this exist. As soon as I learned of their presence in this world, I put them atop the list of things I need to buy immediately. So I guess all my ziplock containers can now officially EAT IT.

Cannot wait to get these. My fridge is going to flip the fuck out when she sees what kind of beauties I'm putting in her.

They're $8 each and available at Anthropologie. (Also, don't get me started on how sexy their regular cereal bowls are. Fuck.)