I want to get one for so many reasons, but what has made me serious is the idea of slicing jicama in thin sheets to be used in place of taco shells/ tortillas.

Pro-tip: The best time (on the weekends) to hit HEB is just after 10 a.m. We discovered this last weekend. You beat the mad rush of families coming in to do their weekly shopping after church BUT you get there right as they are stocking all the fresh produce. Last week I got one of the coveted bags of fingerling…

A salad spinner will change your salad options forever! Buy all sorts of fresh, cruddy young greens, soak them to get the crud off, then spin those suckers till they're dry, and you can store them in your crisper for days. The taste compared to bagged salad? Like Chablis Premier Cru compared to screw-top Chardonnay.

I use vanilla beans to turn Wild Turkey into vanilla extract. I thought that was its only acceptable use...

I have this bad boy from Sharper Image. (SHARPER IMAGE!) Look at all the shit they give you with this thing! If we have a fire I'm grabbing the dog, the picture of my mother holding me as a newborn and this.

I recently upgraded my no-name salad spinner to the Oxo brand. A lovely upgrade.

They're dirty leaves, coated in salmonella and e coli. You wash them squeeky clean, then spin dry to sanitary, crisp perfection.

Wow. Living the dream!

Mr. Tsar is a very homesick Louisianan. He might have just curled up and died without the grinder and sausage stuffing attachments for my mixer. We make an ungodly amount of boudin.

I own two.

Garlic mincer

This, this thing.

I have no idea how I lived for 40 years without a salad spinner. The day after I got mine, my mother got an heartbroken, accusatory email from me for never having used one when I grew up. I thought she loved me.

Cannot do without my Williams Sonoma citrus juicer. I know I can just use my hands, but it's so much cleaner and more fun to use this! And lemon juice can go in just about any dish and make it better IMO.

Misto!! You put olive oil in it and then you can use it as a replacement for crisco/PAM/butter, whatever spray you normally use for cooking. I also mist my salad with it and use it as dressing. Or bread to make garlic bread.

Definitely the Veggetti. It's a device designed to make vegetable noodles. That thing is awesome!

Nobody's "pretending" anything. White people in American (and to a lesser degree in Western European countries) are taught from birth in overt and covert ways that we are the baseline default human and that "minorities" are different from us in numerous deeply mysterious and important ways. Imagery (for instance,…

Boochdizzle, you don't get it. You have taken an issue, that does effect you and made it about your own (imaged/ potential) suffering....

Not all white people isn't a great argument. Kara is responding to a culture of callousness and demonization that leads to very real fear in the hearts of black people. Many white people aren't like this. All people, white or not, are called to stand against it.

You mean to tell me out of that entire powerful post, THAT'S what you came up with? You realize that you are proving Kara's point, right?