New Kitchen Gear

In the category of things that are very helpful in the kitchen, a double-boiler helps for making sauces, chocolate candies, anything where you don't want direct heat applied to the contents of the cooking vessel. In the past we've fudged this by just putting a metal bowl inside a larger pot filled with water, but we found this gorgeous copper and ceramic double boiler on Etsy for cheap, cheap, cheap, and we couldn't pass it up.

Get ready for posts on the 5 Mother Sauces of French Cooking: Béchamel, Velouté, Tomate, Espagnole, and Hollandaise.

Well, the Espagnole may be tricky, since it uses veal stock... but I suppose we could do a beef stock version :)

Bon appétit, and happy cooking! :)