It’s President’s Day today and it’s the perfect time to bring your family together for a great meal that celebrates our country’s heritage!
If you’re looking for an easy way to share the holiday with your kids and maybe even get a little history and education in, there’s no better way than with a family-style dinner that celebrates classic American tastes. Black & Decker can help with easy-to-make recipes that bring all the classic flavors of Americana home. (more…)
Sunday, January 23rd, is National Pie Day and Black & Decker can help your family celebrate the fast, easy way with a delicious home-baked pie, right from your counter. With your favorite pie recipe and your Black & Decker countertop oven, you can make a phenomenal pie for your whole family.
All Black & Decker countertop ovens are designed with a special pizza/pie bump at the back of the baking chamber. This allows you to fit whole, full-sized pies directly into your countertop oven, so you can avoid the extra preheating time and energy of using your conventional oven. It’s the faster, easier way to having fresh baked pies at home.
In addition to the bump that lets you fit whole pies, many Black & Decker countertop ovens, like the CTO4400 and CTO6305 feature our convection cooking technology that circulates air around food as it bakes for faster, better results. Since the hot air is circulated around your pie, you get more even baking from top to bottom and center to sides. You can get bakery-style results right from your own kitchen.
So bring a delicious day of celebration home for your family this Sunday with a home-baked pie the whole family can enjoy—and make it fast and easy with a Black & Decker countertop oven or one of our countertop convection ovens. Plus stayed tuned here for more fun holidays and ways to celebrate with your Black & Decker home appliances.
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.
Why Fall is the Perfect Season for Comfort Food
When you think comfort food, you think of all of those dishes you turn to when you’re in need of a little pick-me-up. Everyone is different and it’s largely dependent on your culture and the region where you grew up, but everyone has foods they have to have when life gets to be too much. Maybe it’s the familiar flavors or happy memories of childhood meals with the family, but we all have that special list of dishes that just make us feel better.
Fall is a great time for comfort food because as the weather is cooling off, many of those warm-comforting dishes we grew up with as children are back in season. In addition, since school schedules are picking up, companies are working hard to finish off the year strong, and the holiday season is fast approaching, so fall is also a great time for comfort food because it’s a time when your family may need the comforts of home the most.
To help you bring the comforts of home back this season, here are some easy ideas on how to use comfort food to help your family thrive in the fall:
Use Family Favorites as a Way to Bring Everyone Together
Sometimes it’s hard with busy fall schedules to get the whole family to sit down together to eat a nice, hot meal. Particularly if you have older kids in the house or a significant other that brings work home, family dinner can be a little tough to pull off. Still, if you can cook a favorite meal of the family and make the meal an event that everyone can’t possibly miss, you may be able to pull everyone together for just a little while for special family meal.
Make Favorite Meals a Reward for Hard Work
Comfort food may not always be the healthiest, most balanced food, so it may not be a meal that you want to make all the time. However, making a favorite comfort food dish when someone does well on an important test or made a big sale is a great way to make that person feel special and make personal successes a family celebration.
Cater to College Kids When They Come Home
When kids who are out of the house come back for a vacation or a long weekend, it’s the perfect time to wrap them in the comforts of home with their favorite dishes. After weeks of cafeteria meals and late-night vending machine trips a good, hot meal is a good way to welcome them back into the home and make sure they’re at least eating good while they’re home.
Bring Back Your Own Favorites with a Twist
Whether it’s a classic meatloaf, mac & cheese or tuna casserole, everyone has those best-loved dishes that simply remind them of all of the comforts of home. If you want to get creative in the kitchen, putting a new twist on a classic comfort food is fun, delicious and a great way to update a taste that your taste buds love. Try a more adult mac & cheese, for instance, with specialty pasta and different types of white cheeses that are a little more refined than the original American classic.
Turn Your Next Party into a Comfort Food Potluck
Building on the last idea about doing classic favorites with an updated twist, you can make this an entire event with family and friends by doing a comfort food potluck. Everyone brings their won best-loved comfort food dish, either doing a classic version or a more refined twist of the original. You share tastes of your childhood with family and friends and make an event everyone will truly remember for the great food.
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