Last week, awaiting me in my mailbox was this:
A brand new, pages weren’t even so much as bent, crisp Sur La Table catalog.
My heart skipped a beat.
(And no, I’m not being literary. It really did.)
I lovey, love, love myself some kitchen goodness.
You know the women who are slaves to shoes and bags?
While I do love them…I am a sucker for all things high-end kitchen.
Seeing the ultra fancy catalog…I mean, the name of the store is in FRENCH!…totally fancy, right?
I saved the mag. Set it aside. Torture. Naptime came. I setted into an armchair and put my feet up.
BLISS.
Just me, a Diet Dr. Pepper and my glossy pages of happy.
You do that too, right?
Seriously savor the magazine goodness?
Please say yes or I’ll realize how pathetic my life has become. Anyone?
But I found myself giggling part of the time.
Come. Join me. Let’s go on a little kitchen gadget adventure.
Let’s begin with this chili pepper grill rack.
They look really yummy.
But…I mean, you’d have to grill A LOT of chili peppers in my opinion to justify spending $20 on a special device for it, no?
I suppose not if you’re rich.
Just seems so…specialized, you know?
How often would you use something like this?
Although, this cast iron garlic roaster is really specialized too…and I’m basically gonna buy it.
Roasted garlic?!
My mouth is watering.
Must. Have. This.
We’d totally use this all summer. No doubt.
This homemade ice cream sandwich pan thing looks fun.
But it also looks like a lot of work.
A lot of melted ice cream all over your counters and hands messy work.
And I’d rather eat my ice cream drenched in hot fudge than in between two wafers.
Although for $12, it’s totally doable. Hmmmm…tempting. My kids would love me…
Now THIS is what I call SPECIFIC!
It’s a cherry pitter machine.
A $60 cherry pitter machine.
I don’t like cherries to begin with, but even still, you gotta pit a whole lotta cherries to drop 60 bones on a gadget like this.
Who pits that many cherries?!
No, really. I’m asking. Do you?
Can I confess something to you?
My love of cooking, baking, and gadget hoarding self…has never had homemade ice cream.
Ever.
I KNOW!
Crazy, right?
You suppose these new fangled ice cream machines from Cuisinart do the job just as well or would I be better off with the old fashioned hand crank barrel-y looking kind?
It’s next on my “have to have” list. But I don’t know what to get.
This happy yellow one is calling my name though.
And then.
I gasped.
Out loud.
Le Creuset now makes plates???!!!
Oh. No.
Hold me back!!!
(Does the mug look familiar? Got 7 of those. Yay!)
But then I stopped. Because I remembered that I can only eat off of white plates.
So it appears that my LC collection will forever be short the dinnerware.
So sad.
But I think I might be able to make an exception for bowls.
Because of all the kitchen stuffs in all the land, bowls are my favorite.
I have no idea why.
They just are.
All different shapes, sizes, colors, materials.
This girl loves herself some bowls.
Dear Mr. La Table,
1992 called.
They want their sunflower pattern back.
The blue and white gingham is feeling lonely on all those one piece jumpers.
Please return at your earliest convenience.
Hope you enjoyed that short jaunt through Fancy Kitchen Land!
What’s your next I-really-don’t-need-it-but-I-still-totally-want-it kitchen doohicky on your wishlist?
FYI, I have no affiliation with Sur La Table, or any of the brands mentioned here. It was just a blog post idea. But if SLT would like to give me a $5,000 shopping spree for review purposes, I’ll be happy to provide my addy at their request. ;)
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Haha! This post made me totally laugh! My parents own a specialty kitchen shop that I had to work at since the tender age of 13 until I ran away to college. :) We NEVER used any of those kitchen gadgets, but people who wanted them would literally scream for joy when they found them at our store because they used to be so hard to find. How’s that for fancy?
We used to always say, all you really need is a great set of knives and pots…but we never told our customers that! ;)
And I’m literally LOL at the sunflower/gingham jumpers thing. I mean, who would think wearing such a thing would be at all attractive? ehem.
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Tina, we need to be best friends. ;)
Only if we can wear gingham/sunflower jumpers and bff heart necklaces. :D
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I think I must have the garlic roaster. How much was that?
I think it was $15…plus tax and shipping of course. Boo.
Thanks! Now i’m going to get another fun catalog!! Love this stuff too :)
You can make yummy ice cream sandwiches using chocolate graham crackers and ice cream – much cheaper, but definitely not as pretty. Love the post!
you are super cute.
love that store!!!
le creuset DINNERWARE? heavenly.
you are funny about the white plates. i have fiestaware-many colors-i can’t do white plates:)
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Uh oh. I just saw a recipe for white chocolate strawberry chunk ice cream the other day and clicked away from it because I don’t have an ice cream maker. Now that I know you can get ’em automated (rather than hand crank), I might just be screwed.
Where screwed = out $50 and full of delicious delicious ice cream…
Right? $50 doesn’t seem that much for an ice cream maker. Does it?
i have the ice cream maker (non-crank kind) and love it! you control what goes in and deliciousness comes out. i am not a fashion junky, but give me a williams sonoma or sur la table catalog and i can sit for hours reading every description.
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Let me know when those gadgets come in, K? In totally unrelated news … how about you guys come over for dinner. You can bring dessert ;)
and WTH is the thingy on the front cover? A BBQ meatball gadget?!
it is! It’s a meatball griller thingamabob. I made homemade meatballs once. Once. And those weren’t even grilled. I’m not sure I’ll ever make them again. SO much work.
I would have to make fun of anyone willing to spend $60 on a freaking cherry pitting machine. Also, I’m ashamed to admit that I have a cuisinart ice cream maker (wedding gift) that has been lurking in my cupboard for almost ten years now that I’ve NEVER used. That made me sad to just type that.
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hmmmm….maybe i should borrow yours before i buy?
Oh my gosh, the pepper rack! I have never seen one before but those peppers look so delicious that I feel like I NEED one. ;)
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Leave my sunflowers alone. Seriously. I like them in a kitchen. They’re cheery. And no, the pattern that is actually in my kitchen right now, “Old Fashioned Salt Box Country Houses” is NOT out of date, either. Well, it is, but I’m not going to change it becauseI like the colors, and it beats having nothing.
No cherry pitters or unitasking kitchen gadgets here.
But the ice cream maker is on my list too.
Joanie, my kitchen is still done in sunflowers too…and blue gingham. Jeannett just durant know what she’s talking about, does she? ;)
Oh. Wow. I take some of what I said back. I just clicked the link for the sunflowers and, yes, it is quite 1992, actually. Hmm. My mind is having trouble reconciling this with the Sur la table name…Still like the IDE A of sunflowers in the kitchen though!
I like sunflowers too. REAL ones. Somehow printed sunflowers are not so cute. Roses are that way too. LOOOOOVE roses. But not on stuff.
my parents own a pepper roaster… but there’s only does 6 at a time and it was the same price. They make poppers during football season. It is a silly gadget, but they enjoy it. :)
That catalog looks like so much fun.
The kitchen gadget I am most obsessed about is a pot filler. I want one….no, I need one! Having that cool little spout above your stove ready and waiting to fill any pot you have waiting. Or maybe it is just to put out the fire I started trying to fry donuts. Either way, someday I will have one!
Your mockery of the sunflower plates reminded me of my 1990s obsession with Elizabeth Arden’s Sunflowers perfume. Remember that stuff? Heavenly. At the time, I mean. Not now though. Never. Heh.
In other news, we *love* our ice cream machine, but even better (if you don’t currently own a machine) you can make ice cream with your littles with two ziploc bags, some rock salt, just a few ice creamy ingredients, and some dedicated biceps (for the shaking part, that is). Yummy and fun!
Mockery? Me?! No, no, no…I’m simply making commentary…with my tongue firmly planted in my cheek. ;)
Yes, I pit that many cherries. With my mouth – 1) chew 2) spit. Done. :) Then I feel sick, but don’t tell. I don’t know if I’d use that pepper thing, but it sure has left me craving a stuffed, grilled pepper!!!
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Do you have a kitchen aid mixer? If so, there is an ICE CREAM MAKER ATTACHMENT! It is the best thing ever – small, easy to use, no salt or ice needed, and it’s not a whole extra appliance to buy/store. :)We LOVE ours.
PS – I, too, love kitchen gadgets, but a $60 cherry pitter? seriously?
I love me some kitchen gadgets. I could spend all day in a kitchen gadget store. Of course I’d spend most of my time talking myself out of needing….er, wanting things. I have a small kitchen so I have to limit what I buy. But if I had a big kitchen, I’d have gadgets coming out the ying yang. They are fun to use.
You know what I really want that I don’t have? A waffle iron. Yeah, I really don’t have one. Need to get one.
Roast the garlic in aluminum foil. No lie… ;o)
I love me some kitchen gadgets but I love me some cleared off kitchen counters more; alas, no gadgets for me, but I enjoy seeing them through your eyes!
Caryl
Um, drool? I <3 Sur La Table!
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My kitchen is done in sunflowers & blue gingham. Yes, pretty 90s, but they make me happy. You’ll never talk me into getting rid of them. Never, never, never. Unless you give me enough money to replace them…maybe.
Also, you MUST explain the white dish thing!
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We are all about cherries, so at first I was definitely going to get the cherry pitter….and then I saw the price. cray-cray.
Also, this:
“Dear Mr. La Table,
1992 called.
They want their sunflower pattern back.”
Literally made me choke on my water. Too funny!
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