Food & Home

This is the page where you will find some of our favorite things that keep our home feeling comfy and running smoothly.

Whether it be our most beloved cooking essentials, entertaining must haves, or organization tools, these are the things we love and couldn’t live without, around our house.

This is home base after all, and should be treated with care! 🥰

Individual descriptions and reasons we love the items, are below each row of photos.

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Cookbooks

Crostini, Canapés, & Toasts Cookbook

Crostini is my favorite type of food to eat. You can do so much with those little toasts!

With 50 creative topping combinations (12 kid friendly), 12 board ideas, & more than 20 dips, spreads, & drizzles, our new cookbook is the perfect go-to for any occasion.

Impress your guests at your next party or just impress yourself with these easy to make, mouth watering bites!

Cooking Accessories

• Bruntmore Cast Iron Dutch Oven – We use this durable, versatile kitchen essential for so many things! It’s perfect for stews or any other meal that involves sauces, or several hearty ingredients. You can.
• 3 PC Casserole Baking Dish Set – This set is another favorite we tend to use often. With an interchangeable lid and 2 different sizes, these baking dishes come in handy for various meals. Casseroles, roasts…you name it. Easy to clean too!
• Faberware Non-stick Large Sauce Pan – Due to it’s generous amount of space, this sautée pan is often our go-to. It accommodates larger quantities and clean up is a breeze after. Great for any meat in sauce, stews, and other one pot meals.

• Instapot 7-in-1 Pressure Cooker, Steamer – With 13 customizable Smart Programs for pressure cooking ribs, soups, beans, rice, poultry, yogurt, and desserts, there’s nothing this thing can’t do! Takes up little space, but makes cooking so much easier.
• 4 Qt. Ninja Air Fryer – This model was our first air fryer. It produces delicious food of all kinds and the best option for a family of 2-3. It also doesn’t take up much space, and can be moved around easily. It made some very nice meals for my family in it’s time 🙂
• Multi- Function Oster Air Fryer & Convection Oven – This is our current air fryer and we love it! It accommodates a lot more food and ability to cook 2-3 different things at a time. Takes up a little space, but worth it. We use it for lunch and dinner meals every day.

• Wildone Baking Sheets w/ Cooling Racks – These baking pans already speak for themselves with their stainless steel construction and accompanying cooling racks. Pull your meat or cookies out of the oven. Transfer them to the cooling rack. Get the pans washed and put away as your food is enjoying a bit of resting time. Easy Peasy.
• George Foreman Electric Grill & Panini Press – Sometimes, you just want the grill marks on a sandwich or piece of meat. This electric, space saving tool will do just that. Can handle 4 smaller sandwiches or pieces of meat. Or it can handle 2 larger items at a time.
• Set Of 5 Stainless Steel Nesting Bowls For Mixing & Serving – We have a full set of these guys and they are a few of most used tools we have in our kitchen. Stainless Steel is so easy to clean and elegant at the same time. Super versatile bowls for all of your cooking and serving needs!

• 13 In. Splatter Screen Guard – It only takes 1 time of being burned by sizzling bacon grease, before you give full credit to this nice little tool. Takes no space. We use it for any size pot or pan, where food is simmering, boiling, or sizzling. Easy to clean and goes a long way toward kitchen safety.
• Imarku Japanese Stainless Steel Chef Knife – We all have that block of kitchen knives we purchased when moving into our first home. They are useful, but not proper chef knives. And believe me when I say, you need a good, sharp chef knife separate from the others. This is the one.
• Handheld Immersion Blender – This nifty little tool is my go to for a lot of different things, like smoothies, pureeing soup or gravy. The biggest thing I like to use it for are those delicious homemade lattes I make when I don’t have time for the coffee shop 😊Easy to store. Just Convenient.

• Walfos Heat Resistent Pot Holders/ Trivet Mats – Like many, we have limited counter space to work with, in the kitchen. These multi-purpose mats protect our table and counter surfaces, while also protecting our fingers!
• Rubbermaid Food Storage Containers – Rubbermaid is the New Tupperware, and we have plenty of it in our cupboards, of all sizes. These containers have vented lids, perfect for reheating leftovers for lunch. Durable, spacious, and easy to clean.

Food Serving & Entertaining

• Serving Platters For Appetizers & Snacks – These platters are not only durable and reusable, but they stack and store easily. We like them, because they are appropriate for so many things. Serve the kids after school snacks on them. Arrange game day appetizers on them or use them for movie night munchies. Anything goes!
• Set Of 4 Stemless Wine Glasses – These glasses have been my style preference for years. Not only are they elegant, they are durable and perfect for any occasion, casual or more formal. Also perfect for those of us who are clumsy by nature! 😆
• Set Of 6 Ramekins (4 Oz. Each) – These are those little bowls you see a lot of, at restaurants when sides, dips, and desserts are delivered to your table. There’s a reason you see them everywhere. They are useful for so many small quantities of any type of food. Perfect for charcuterie spreads too!

• Acacia Wood Cutting/ Charcuterie Board – This is one of my favorite cutting boards for so many reasons. It great for chopping needs of course. It’s also perfect for charcuterie and crostini boards. Perfect size for entertaining and top rated quality for food needs.
• Charcuterie Serving Board Utensils & Accessories – For all those small appetizer and bite sized tasks, this is the only set of miniature utensils you will need. So versatile and convenient!
• Portable Bartender Glass Rimming Station – We have used this nifty little tool for cocktails and mocktails. We’ve also used it for warm winter drinks like hot cider and lattes with sweet cinnamon and sugar rims. This is one of those little items that is easy to store and great to have around for those indulgent drink cravings.

• Bartender Kit w/ Shakers, Mixers, & Tools – We’ve had one of these sets for years. Of course, it’s an accessory that’s great for entertaining, but we’ve used the individual tools for a variety of things. Not just cocktails with company. 😉

Culinary Enhancements

• Stonewall Kitchen Specialty Spreads – I don’t know about you, but I’m an addict when it comes to delicious spreads, toppings, and other add-on ingredients that will take my food to another level. Stonewall Kitchen is a brand I stick by, because they are experts when it comes to those exact compliments for every day food.
• Stonewall Kitchen Gourmet Jams & Jellies – Again, I love flavor accents for just about anything, and our collection of jams and jellies are beautiful for so many things. I will throw a jam on a burger or some pork if I think the flavors might complement one another. Stonewall Kitchen has the best versatile jams for everything!
• Culinary Oils That Add A Lot With Just A Touch – Mouth Watering bites often times start with the beginning of the cooking process. This collection of culinary cooking and dipping oils give so much, with just a touch. You’re sure to find an array of these gourmet oils in my pantry!

Organization

From every day to-do’s like grocery shopping, chores, and vacation packing, to full dinner planners for big holidays, we’ve got you covered.

For a complete list of printable checklists and planners see our shop page here!