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Feature Friday: Chef Shears

Chef Shear - Kitchen Shears for budding cooks and those who know their way around the kitchen.

Product Details:

Kitchen Shear is made with stainless construction to resist corrosion.  These industrial strength chef shears with oversized bows are designed with a Micro-serrated blade to grip while cutting.  Ideal for cutting and trimming poultry, meat, fish, herbs, and more.  These Chef Shears come with a lifetime warranty and are detachable for easy cleaning.

Clauss 8" Detachable Chef Shear Features:

• Resists rust & corrosion
• Industrial strength construction
• Oversized bows
• Micro-serrations will grip & cut
• Great for cutting & trimming poultry, meat, fish, herbs, and more
• Detachable for easy cleaning
• Model: 18518
• Lifetime Warranty

Feeling inspired? Check out some of these summer dishes.

Halloween treats that make ghouls and goblins a little sweeter

We know we're usually telling you about crafts or the best scissors to use for your projects, but today we're putting on our culinary hats to bring you some spooky treats that will tempt your little ghouls and goblins.

1. Witch hat sundaes

2. Creepy Cupcakes

3. Dulce de Leche Bat Cookies

4. No Bake Spider Cheesecake **Use gummies and licorice for spider legs. Cut to size with kitchen shears**

5. Coffin Brownies

Images and recipes via Martha Stewart Online

Feature Friday: Titanium Bonded Kitchen Snips

We're going to go out on a limb and saying that kitchen snips are the most under appreciated kitchen tools around. These tools are so amazingly versatile and truly deliver when you're in a bind.

Product Details:
The Clauss Titanium bonded kitchen snips combine the high performance of Titanium bonded™ blades that stay sharp longer, are corrosion resistant, and have a serrated blade to provide you with the perfect combination of features for a kitchen snip. The Titanium bonded™ blades are lightweight, triple the strength of ordinary stainless steel and highly resistant to rust and corrosion-dishwasher safe.

• 3 times stronger than stainless steel
• Long lasting cutting edge
• One serrated blade
• Great for use as Trauma Shears

Thinking ahead: Cute Halloween spider cupcakes

How cute is this little spider. Make these delectable Halloween cupcakes at your next Halloween party, or have your child bring them to school.

**Don't forget your kitchen scissors to cut the licorice legs to size**

Ingredients:

• 1 (18.25-ounce) box devil's food cake mix
• 1 (26.5-ounce) bag Snickers or Milky Way Fun Size Bars, unwrapped
• 1 (14-ounce) bag M&M'S Milk Chocolate Candies for Halloween
• 1 (16-ounce) can dark chocolate frosting
• 1 (10.5-ounce) can chocolate sprinkles
• 24 large marshmallows
• 48 black licorice laces

Directions:   

1. Preheat oven to 350°F. Prepare cake mix according to package instructions. Fill 2 muffin tins with paper liners.
2. Fold candy bars into batter, then transfer to prepared pans.
3. Bake 18 to 21 minutes. Remove pans from oven, transfer to wire rack and let cool completely.
4. Reserve 2 tablespoons of chocolate frosting in resealable plastic bag.
5. Spread tops of cupcakes with remaining frosting, then coat with chocolate sprinkles.
6. Cut marshmallows in half horizontally. Using reserved frosting, attach marshmallows to cupcakes as eyes.
7. Evenly quarter licorice laces. Press 4 pieces on two sides of each cupcake for spider legs. Dot marshmallow centers with frosting and attach an M&M'S to each. Attach another M&M'S for mouth.

            

Feature Friday: Titanium Chef Shears

Summer is the best time for dining al fresco. Entertaining outdoors means you want to cook fast, light and simple meals that won't keep you cooped up in the kitchen. That's where chef shears come in.

This handy kitchen tool can save you loads of time while you cook. Snip fresh veggies, trim meat, cut fresh scallions and the like with one pair of chef shears.

Product Details:

These shears combine the high performance of Titanium Bonded metal blades, ergonomic handles and break-apart blades thus providing the ultimate in cutting performance. 

• Lifetime warranty
• 3x harder than stainless steel
• Notched blades for cutting bones
• Blades come apart for easy cleaning
• Dishwasher safe

Featured Product: Titanium Kitchen Shears

If your Mom is one of the best cooks you know, she'll love receiving titanium kitchen shears as part of her mother's day gift.

Titanium bonded kitchen shears make a great addition to a mother's day  basket filled with cook books and kitchen supplies and gadgets.

Product Details:

The Acme Kitchen Series products combine the high performance of Titanium bonded™ blades with antibacterial treated plastic handles to provide you with the perfect combination of features for kitchen products. The Titanium bonded™ blades are lightweight, triple the strength of ordinary stainless steel and highly resistant to rust and corrosion-dishwasher safe.

Others items to include in your gift basket:

• Wine
• Pasta
• Gourmet sauces
• Sundae kits
• Cookies and chocolate

Featuring Titanium Kitchen Snips

Kitchen scissors can help you speed up the time it takes to prepare recipes in the the kitchen. To ensure long use of the tool, make sure you look for these signs of a quality kitchen scissor.

• Made from a durable metal
• Won't rust
• Stays sharp

Titanium bonded Kitchen Snips:

• Titanium bonded blades stay sharp for longer
• Corrosion resistant
• Long serrated blade
• Lightweight
• Triple the strength of ordinary stainless steel

Welcome the spring season by baking cupcakes

Ring in spring with bright and cheery flower cupcakes from the bakers at FamilyFun magazine.

Even if you're still seeing snow this month, you can sweeten the mood by making these springtime confections for your family and friends.

Baking supplies:

• Cupcake mix (from the box or your favorite recipe!)
• White/Vanilla icing
• Flower shaped jujubes
• M&M minis
• green jujubes
• Black licorice rope
• Fruit leather
• Kitchen Scissors

Decorating How -To:
1. Frost as many cupcakes as you need (for it to feel like spring :)
2. Cut your flower-shaped jujubes in half with your kitchen shears (width-wise) and "glue" mini M&Ms on to the flowers using a dab of icing
3. For leaves, cut green jujubes in half with your kitchen shears and then cut into thirds. Place next to flowers.
4. Cut licorice to size and place as an arch over the cupcake, add a fruit bow.
5. Devour and think about warmer weather.

The 'day of love' can be your time to shine in the kitchen

This Valentine's Day, don't be afraid to test your skills in the kitchen. A home-cooked meal can really show someone you care about them. Plus, isn't cooking delicious food the fastest way to capture a person's heart?

For the beginner to intermediate cook, we wanted to find a recipe that will stretch your skills without spelling disaster (you know, like the times you had to go get takeout after you scorched your food beyond recognition...)

Roasted Cornish Hens with Vegetables:

• Preheat your oven to 375 degrees
• Halve your cornish hens using a sharp knife or poultry shears
• Rinse the hens and pat them dry **AVOID CROSS CONTAMINATION IN YOUR KITCHEN**
• Twist the wing tips so they fit under the bird. Place the halves cut side down in a baking dish
• Brush a mixture of 2 tsp. of olive oil, 1/2 tsp salt, 1/4 tsp paprika, 1/2 tsp of garlic and pepper to taste, top with a few sprigs of fresh rosemary
• roast for one hour or until no longer pink
• Serve with roasted asparagus, roasted potatoes, wild rice --- whatever you'd like

This year, get better acquainted with your kitchen

 As a kitchen newbie, I wouldn't dive in to perparing a five course meal just yet.  Lets get acquainted with some common kitchen tools and delicious basic recipes first.

It's never too late to get back into the kitchen and figure out where to begin. Your role doesn't have to be queen or king orderer of take out. Here's a break down of some common kitchen tools that you should have ready to whip up some low-stress creations.

• KNIVES
• made of high carbon stainless steel
• 3 or 4" paring knife
• a serrated knife
• 8 or 10" chef's knife

MISCELLANEOUS

swivel-bladed vegetable peeler

grater with various sized holes

rolling pin

can opener

kitchen timer

chef shears

corkscrew

• MEASURING CUPS AND SPOONS
• Various sizes, in metal and plastic
• Get at least two sets of each, so you're not continually washing them as you cook
• glass measuring cups with spout, for liquids

• SPOONS
• slotted spoon
• wooden spoons
• sturdy metal spoons
• Soup ladle

• MIXING UTENSILS
• Wire whisks in different sizes
• eggbeater

• SPATULAS
• straight spatulas
• rubber scraper spatulas

• SIEVES AND COLANDERS
• nested varying size sieves, in stainless steel (work as flour sifters too)
• steel or plastic colander

• POTS AND PANS
• 1, 2, 4, and 8-quart saucepans with covers
• 12" skillet with covers
• 6 or 8" nonstick skillet
• roasting pan
• two 9" round cake pans
• 9" square cake pan
• 9"x13" baking pan
• 9"x5" loaf pan
• 9" pie pan
• 12 cup muffin tin
• cooling racks
• two cookie sheets