Simple in the Kitchen

What tools make cooking simpler for you?  Have a favorite kitchen gadget you can't live without?  How about the most useless tool in your kitchen?  Maybe something you like to use, but takes up way too much space?  I love the kitchen, it's probably my favorite room in any given house.  I do not like my kitchen I am in now.  It is small, and cramped and makes it hard to get the whole family in there cooking up a good time.  2010 brought with it my new favorite kitchen gadget - the Breadmaker.  For Christmas 2009 my mom got me the Breadman Breadmaker.  I thought it was cool, but at the time I still really enjoyed getting my hands in the dough and letting the kids help make the bread too.  So I didn't use it whole lot.  Then we moved here..

I still love cooking, and being in the kitchen, it's just become a lot harder to do the big fun stuff.  Enter stage left.....

My Breadman Bread Maker.  Yes it takes up one of the few counter spaces I have, but it opened up the time to play with kids, and do more cleaning.  Gosh I love this thing.  (we loved it so much, we bought mom a bread maker this last Christmas!)

This thing does everything from beginning to end.  Kneading, rising and baking.  But it doesn't end there.  You can have it just knead the bread, then you make it into rolls, pitas, cinnamon buns and cook in the oven.  Or make some homemade jelly in it!!!

Here's the latest and greatest from our beloved Bread Maker

mmmm clover leaf white rolls.  Dinner's going to be good tonight!!

don't tell but two rolls have already gone missing.....