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Cooking in a small apartment kitchen presents many challenges - no counter space, overflowing cabinets, and the cheapest fridge and oven your landlord could find, to name just a few. Baking in a small kitchen presents even more problems. Rolling pins get lost in the depths of closets, extracts hide under bags of rice that are themselves hiding behind cans of tomatoes, bags of flour, and boxes of pasta, all of which are packed in so tightly that if you remove one item all the others come tumbling out of the cabinet as well. And worst of all, the whole tiny space gets so hot that dough turns to mush the second you try to roll it out.
Fortunately there are solutions to at least two of these problems. To give yourself the same advantage cooks with marble countertops have, just stick your cutting board into the freezer for the hour that you're chilling the dough and watch gleefully as your duckie-shaped cookies come off the counter without melting or loosing a foot. And to roll out dough without the aid of the long-lost rolling pin, use any smooth cylindrical item you have on hand; a clean glass works just fine, and a chilled bottle of Chardonnay is even better (like a nice heavy marble rolling pin).
If you run out of sugar or flour at the 11th hour there's not much you can do to salvage dessert, but an inadequate kitchen should never keep an intrepid cook from serving cookies and homemade pie on Christmas Eve.
Posted by georgia to Kitchen and Cooking , Tips on December 12, 2005 11:03 PM | permalink | Email this post
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