Useful kitchen tool- the strawberry huller

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Fox Run Tomato Corer

Do you have one of these? You might not even know you need it. Definitely for us Type-A folks, but this makes quick work of hulling strawberries or coring tomatoes. Also, kids think they’re really cool.

You can core cherry tomatoes with this and then stuff them with blue cheese, a quinoa salad, tabouli, seasoned breadcrumbs, whatever! Makes for a very appealing and easy hors d’ or app! In fact, these would pair nicely with the hard-boiled egg white stuffed with hummus I mentioned recently.

Em-i-list of the day

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Things I am looking forward to:

1. Saying goodbye to “poopie diapies”: Friends, I love my little darlings and their squishy thighs and complete willingness to still scream “I love you, Mommy” in public. Nonetheless, it is with much anticipation that I look forward to the day that I am NOT in charge of their #2 situations.

2. Saying goodbye to the deck men: They are doing a good job, they are polite and kind, and frankly it is interesting to watch them work as I admire real craftsmanship (failed completely the ‘build a balsa wood bridge’ in high school physics class), but I miss my yard, my grass is dying, and this project seems to be taking longer than did high school.

3. For real saying goodbye to any form of cool/cold weather: it’s May 2, goodbye winter. I felt a little bit punk’d yesterday because it was down near 50.

4. Yotam’s Green Pancakes with Lime Butter: how insanely good do these sound?! I am planning to make ’em for dinner.

5. Lunch.

Things I am not looking forward to:

1. Oliver giving up his nap.

2. Taking both boys to Louisiana alone for the first time next month (two flights; 7-8 hours total travel time). It will be great to be there, but I am not looking forward to getting there.