GEAR SHOP 🥣

A Note on Gear. I am a minimalist. The lists below are near and dear to me as tried-and-tested, true essentials, used again and again in my own kitchen. Everything is dishwasher friendly (except the dutch oven & banneton). Happy browsing!

ESSENTIALS: EVERYDAY WORK HORSES

• Standard mixing bowls

• Take-apart kitchen shears

• Large mixing spoons, baking & egg spatula, and a smaller, jar scraper spatula

• Large silicone cooking spatula, if you need a reason to upgrade, do it 😏

• Measuring cups and spoons

• 4-cup glass measuring bowl

• Mini muffin silicone pan for bite-sized everything

• Non-plastic cutting boards, $$$ but amazing quality and dishwasher safe

• Parchment paper - buy in bulk at a place like Costco if you can

• Long zester and short zester, and replace every few years, as you can’t resharpen!

• Baking storage set for the type-a kitchen organizers out there

• Made In’s rectangular baking dish and square baking dish, such high quality and thermal shock resistant ceramic

FOR COOKIE BAKING 🍪

• Hand mixer because standing mixers are intense, let’s keep it simple

• Ice cream scoop for evenly sized, big cookies

• Or a smaller ice cream scoop for medium cookies

• Silicone baking mats - off-brand is fine - or parchment paper

• Cooling racks

FOR COOKIE DECORATING 🎨

• Cookie cutters in basic shapes, numbers, holiday, novelty- if you have an idea, roll with it!

• Meringue powder for royal icing

• Gel food dyes for royal icing or natural food dyes

• Elderberry extract for pinks, blueberry extract for blues

• Small piping bags and scribing tools

• Cookie “marker” if your designs get sneaky intricate (guilty as charged)

FOR BREAD MAKING 🥖

• Kitchen scale for tearing and weighing in grams - wipe clean only

• Cling wrap in bulk or good quality bees wax paper if you’re anti-plastic

• Banneton for the shape and size of the loaf you want to make - hand wash only

• Flat topped dutch oven with a trivet - hand wash only

• Round silicone mat or a bread silicone mat, if you already have a dutch oven with a handle on top (not flippable)

• Kitchen shears for scoring (they’re just so much easier than the scoring tools)

FOR SOURDOUGH STARTER 🍞

• Kitchen scale for feeding your starter in grams - wipe clean only

• Tall, extra-wide-mouth jar with a screw-on lid

• Jar scraper for mixing

KITCHEN REFRESH!

• Laguiole heritage steak knives (yes, dishwasher safe!)

• Aarke stainless steel kettle if you use a kettle everyday, like me, treat yourself to this upgrade, just wow!

• It’s probably time for a blender upgrade if you’ve put it off for years, like I did

• Dishwashing brushes that bring aesthetic peace to your countertop

• Made In’s rectangular baking dish and square baking dish, such high quality and thermal shock resistant ceramic

& GROCERY SHOP 🛒

A Note on Food. These are Whole Foods links to some of my all-time favorite and most-used food things. I’m health conscious, but I don’t let it run my life, you know? Judgement free zone here, as always.

FLOURS

• Organic all-purpose flour (5lb)

• King Arthur organic bread flour (5 lb)

• King Arthur organic whole wheat flour (2 lb)

• Bob’s Red Mill almond flour (2 lb)

• Bob’s Red Mill oat flour (1 lb), or grind up steel cut oats

SPECIALTY ITEMS, SWEET

• Dark chocolate sea salt tahini for brownies and brownie cookies

• Hazelnut spread for an organic version of Nutella in my “not fudge” fudge recipe

• Vanilla protein powder: classic organic and fancy elevated

• Chocolate protein powder: classic organic and fancy elevated

SPECIALITY ITEMS, SAVORY

• Whole Foods ancient grain pizza dough

• Pickled red onions and Kalamata olives for focaccia, general garnishing and snacking

• Flaky Maldon salt

WILDCARD

• If you have Whole Foods near home, and you’re already an Amazon Prime member, their $99.99/year grocery delivery and curbside pick up is incredible. As a busy, working family, we use this service every week (okay more like multiple times a week)!

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