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Toaster Oven Recipe
This delicious dessert recipe brings the taste of the holidays home—made fast and easy with a Black & Decker Countertop Convection Oven, such as the TO1640B.
6 cups cubed day old Cuban bread*
6 tbsp. melted butter or margarine
4 cups whole milk
4 large eggs
4 tsp. vanilla extract
¾ cup canned pumpkin
½ cup sugar
2 tbsp. finely chopped candied ginger
2 tbsp. grated orange peel
1 tsp. ground cinnamon
1 pkg. (3 oz.) cook and serve pudding mix
½ cup fresh orange juice
In a large bowl, toss together bread cubes and butter. Spread evenly in a 2-quart shallow clear glass baking dish. In a bowl, whisk together 2 cups milk with eggs, 2 tsp. vanilla extract, pumpkin, sugar, candied ginger, 1 tbsp. grated orange peel and cinnamon. Pour mixture over bread cubes, coating all.
Bake in a preheated Black & Decker toaster oven at 350ºF for 30 minutes, until custard is set.
Meanwhile to prepare the sauce, in a medium saucepan, combine pudding mix, remaining 2 cups milk, ½ cup orange juice, remaining 1 tbsp. grated orange peel and 2 tsp. vanilla extract. Cook, stirring, until the mixture comes to a boil. Remove from heat and pour into a serving dish or pitcher. Place plastic wrap directly on the surface of the sauce until ready to serve.
Serve pudding and sauce warm or chilled.
Makes 6 servings.
*Any day-old crusty bread may be substituted, but the pudding may be slightly heavier and drier.
Fresh Ingredients & Salsas in a Snap
Food process0rs are perfect for big prep tasks for family cooking and party planning, but you don’t always need all of that capacity as you cook. For family meals and smaller items, a chopper is better because it’s faster to assemble and has fewer parts to clean, so it’s perfect for those small, quick prep tasks in the kitchen.
The Ergo® 3-Cup Chopper is the perfect size for all your small kitchen prep tasks. Need some freshly chopped herbs for a recipe? Want a freshly prepared salsa for a party of afternoon snack? Simply chop what you need in the 3-cup workbowl.
With 150 watts of power and a stay-sharp blade, you can chop even tough ingredients with great results. Plus, with high/low pulse control, you can get just the right amount of power you need to chop, so you don’t pulverize or crush the ingredients. The soft grip ergonomic hand hold reduces hand stress, so can chop all you need without wearing yourself out.
In addition, a handy storage lid means you can pre-prep recipe ingredients for big family dinners and events ahead of time, then store them in the same container for use later. This makes preparing for a meal a lot easier during this big month of holidays where you’re cooking a number of big dinners. Once you’re done, all of the parts are dishwasher-safe, so you can simply put everything in the dishwasher for the ultimate in fast, easy cleanup.
The Ergo® 3-Cup Chopper is available now in stores nationwide, as well as online.
It never fails that no matter how well you try to plan for the gift-giving season, you either forget someone on the list or you get a gift from a person you weren’t expecting. During the busiest time of the year, this simply adds stress and extra work to your schedule as you scramble to try to find something. The best solution is to have a few smaller gifts on hand that you can use for these unexpected gifting occasions.
For these times, small kitchen gadgets are a great solution. They’re more thoughtful than a standard gift card, they’ll get more use than knick knacks and they’re well priced so you don’t break the bank during the tightly budgeted holiday season. In many cases, they’re even priced well enough that you can use them for gift exchanges around the office or between groups of friends.
To help you with your small gifts and emergency presents list, here are the Top 5 gadgets from Black & Decker that will make anyone’s holiday.
1. Ergo® 3-Cup Chopper (EHC650)
It’s small, handy and makes any mom or foodie’s life a lot easier in the kitchen—it’s like having a personal sous chef in the kitchen! You can find more information on the Ergo® Chopper in this month’s product feature article.
2. Slice Right® 9” Electric Knife (EK700)
Particularly during the holidays, an electric knife is a lifesaver in the kitchen. You can carve poultry and meats for big holiday meals or slice artisan bread for sandwiches. It’s perfect for people that cook a lot of big meals or who regularly bake at home.
3. Brew ‘n Go® Personal Coffeemaker (DCM18S)
For coffee lovers, there’s no better kitchen gadget than a personal coffeemaker. It brews directly into a 15-oz. stainless steel travel mug, so it’s perfect busy mornings or even brewing coffee to your taste at the office.
4. Power Pro® 250-Watt Hand Mixer (MX250)
A hand mixer makes a great small kitchen gadget gift for anyone that does a lot of desserts, batters or whipped creams at home. Since mixers are such an important gadget, it also makes a great starter mixer for college students, first time apartment owners and new couples just starting out.
5. Grand Openings® 3-in-1 Opener (CO1200B)
For people that need to consolidate and organize, an all-in-one opener is a great gift idea. With a can opener, bottle opener and knife sharpener, you’re helping them replace 3 separate gadgets that often end up cluttering a kitchen drawer with a compact countertop appliance that does the work of all of them.
All of the gifts on this list are priced under $25 and are currently available online. You can find additional inexpensive gift and stocking stuffer ideas, such as citrus juicers and coffee grinders, in the Products section of our website.
It never fails that no matter how well you try to plan for the gift-giving season, you either forget someone on the list or you get a gift from a person you weren’t expecting. During the busiest time of the year, this simply adds stress and extra work to your schedule as you scramble to try to find something. The best solution is to have a few smaller gifts on hand that you can use for these unexpected gifting occasions.
For these times, small kitchen gadgets are a great solution. They’re more thoughtful than a standard gift card, they’ll get more use than knick knacks and they’re well priced so you don’t break the bank during the tightly budgeted holiday season. In many cases, they’re even priced well enough that you can use them for gift exchanges around the office or between groups of friends.
To help you with your small gifts and emergency presents list, here are the Top 5 gadgets from Black & Decker that will make anyone’s holiday.
1. Ergo® 3-Cup Chopper (EHC650)
It’s small, handy and makes any mom or foodie’s life a lot easier in the kitchen—it’s like having a personal sous chef in the kitchen! You can find more information on the Ergo® Chopper in this month’s product feature article.
2. Slice Right® 9” Electric Knife (EK700)
Particularly during the holidays, an electric knife is a lifesaver in the kitchen. You can carve poultry and meats for big holiday meals or slice artisan bread for sandwiches. It’s perfect for people that cook a lot of big meals or who regularly bake at home.
3. Brew ‘n Go® Personal Coffeemaker (DCM18S)
For coffee lovers, there’s no better kitchen gadget than a personal coffeemaker. It brews directly into a 15-oz. stainless steel travel mug, so it’s perfect busy mornings or even brewing coffee to your taste at the office.
4. Power Pro® 250-Watt Hand Mixer (MX250)
A hand mixer makes a great small kitchen gadget gift for anyone that does a lot of desserts, batters or whipped creams at home. Since mixers are such an important gadget, it also makes a great starter mixer for college students, first time apartment owners and new couples just starting out.
5. Grand Openings® 3-in-1 Opener (CO1200B)
For people that need to consolidate and organize, an all-in-one opener is a great gift idea. With a can opener, bottle opener and knife sharpener, you’re helping them replace 3 separate gadgets that often end up cluttering a kitchen drawer with a compact countertop appliance that does the work of all of them.
All of the gifts on this list are priced under $25 and are currently available online. You can find additional inexpensive gift and stocking stuffer ideas, such as citrus juicers and coffee grinders, in the Products section of our website.
While the holidays are all about joy and fun, holiday meals can be some of the most stressful times you can have in the kitchen. Often you are cooking for more people than a regular meal with more dishes and more specialty items. Planning how to best use your appliances during your holiday meal preparation can save a lot of stress and hassle in the kitchen.
One of the biggest issues with preparing a holiday meal is that almost everything uses the oven. It’s an art to try to get all of the baked, broiled and roasted dishes that you normally cook in your conventional oven to all come out hot and ready to serve at the same time. A large-capacity countertop oven like the TO1640B is the perfect solution to use as a supplement to your big oven. You can use it to cook side dishes, keep dishes warm and to heat buns, so your big oven stays reserved for main dishes and other things that take more space or more time. This way, you don’t have to try to plan side dishes around the cooking of the main event.
Another issue in holiday cooking comes in the limited number of burners on your stove. Between side dishes and sauces, you often run out of room on the stove just like you do in the oven. If in your meal planning you realize that you have a lot of stovetop cooking items, you may want to consider adding an electric skillet into the mix to give you more room to cook all your stovetop items. A family-sized electric skillet like the SKG105 from Black & Decker allows you to prepare whole side dishes and more, just like you would on your stove. Plus, with a generally larger cooking surface that most stovetop pans, you can enjoy the extra space if you’re cooking for more people.
In addition to using the countertop oven and the electric skillet, look at your meal plan closely to see if you can use any additional cooking appliances to take off some of the stress of your larger appliances. Steamed vegetables can be done in a Handy Steamer like the HS1000 and some side dishes and even desserts can be done in a Slow Cooker like the SL5470. Of course, for many Latin holiday meals, you will also be using your Rice Cooker like the RC3406 to fix one of your main side dishes, so make sure you have a capacity on your rice cooker that’s big enough to make all the rice you need for your guests.
On the day of the meal, prep work will definitely be one of your biggest concerns. Dicing for one recipe, chopping for another—it all adds up to time you have to spend during cooking. Look at your prep work closely the night before the meal. If there are items or ingredients that you can prep in advance, go ahead and prep them to save yourself time and hassle as you cook. Use a food processor like the FP2500 to shred cheese and slice any produce that can be sliced in advance. The more you can prep in advance, the less stress you will have as you cook the big meal.
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