Daily housekeeping, daily happiness.
Good Morning! 🌞
Let’s start this morning by organizing dishes and plates from the dishwasher.
This is my favorite time of the day 😊.
It is the time for the clean dishes to go back to their places. Welcome back! 😋
The place where I stay the longest during the day,
The place where I have the most traces of my hands and memories,
The place where my taste is reflected,
The place where my favorite items are filled one by one,
Right here, it is my kitchen.
I bet there must be kitchen items that you wish you had found them sooner.
They are the kitchen essentials that make you happy every time you use them.
Today I am going to introduce and share my favorite kitchen items.
I can clearly see that my husband had a late night snack last night 😋.
For those who've been to IKEA, you must have picked up this sealed clip.
It is also one of my kitchen must-haves even though it wears out a little.
For bags that are difficult to be sealed by a clip, I use an airtight container.
It is an easy one-touch closure making it easy for my little daughter to open and close.
So I usually use these containers for snacks in pantry.
Recently I started to make bread, so I buy flour more often.
For flour especially, the paper packaging bag sometimes tears. I use a container to avoid all that powder scatters and messes.
A nice label makes it feel more organized and easy to use.
The famous Silicook freezer storage containers are helping my freezer too.
It is flat making it perfect for freezer organization without wasting space.
I am out of salt, so let’s fill it up too.
Open and close the container that you take out and use every day with one touch!
I bought a cute salt and pepper shaker set.
I really like its simple and nice farmhouse looking design 😊.
I’ve never made bread in my life, but recently I'm really into making NO knead overnight bread!
I recently found that I could easily make bread with a Dutch oven cocotte.
Salt, sugar, yeast and flour are all you need! It’s so simple that it’s worth trying, isn’t it?
I’ve used recipes from a youtuber Kkuume and a blogger luckhoy.
This is an accurate, long-lasting kitchen scale that I bought for my daughter’s baby food a long time ago.
Keeping powders in a container makes everything neat and easy to use.
A beginner baker like me is so strict on every gram you can possibly measure haha. 😋
Add 2g of yeast and a small portion of 200mL of warm water first and wait for a few minutes.
Then add sugar and salt, 4g each, and the rest of warm water, and mix everything well.
Then you get a dough of this consistency.
Cover it with plastic wrap or silicone cover and you’re done! It’s so easy and really worth a try, isn’t it? 😊
This silicone lid from IKEA is so versatile.
Leave it overnight and I’m off to go to bed! Night night!
This morning, what’s more pleasing than the sound of breeze and birds is my bread dough!
I wonder if fermentation went well. This is the most exciting time 😁.
I didn’t know I’d be waiting for this sour smell in my life haha 😋.
Here comes Staub cocotte.
My daughter thinks everything I have looks cool 😂.
These pot protectors would be lost before I notice so let’s keep them in a safe place in a container 😋.
This silicone spatula used to be so popular that every mom bought for making baby food.
It is soft but rigid (hmm? 😁). Long time short, it is very useful in the kitchen.
I no longer make baby food anymore, but I still use this amazing spatula everyday.
If the dough looks like a spider web, it is a good sign that the dough has fermented sufficiently.
Grab a parchment paper.
I am going to bring an equipment that I used to sprinkle powdered sugar.
For a beginner baker like me, a good kitchen gadget is so precious as it increases the success rate haha 😁.
Let’s put some flour on my hands too.
Turn the dough upside down and shape it like a ball, and this is called shaping or moulding in baking terminology.
A beginner baker is learning a lot while making the bread for the first time haha 👍.
Preheat the oven to 450F with the empty cocotte pot including the lid in the oven.
Cover the dough while preheating.
I am also going to boil an egg while waiting.
This egg cooker surely is one of my highly recommended kitchen items!
Sprinkle some additional flour on top.
I don’t have a professional bread lame so I am just going to use my sharp bread knife instead.
Bread lame is a thin metal razor that is used to cut and score the bread dough to help control the expansion of the dough as it bakes (baking AND learning! 😋)
This is a nice wood board that I use as a charger, as a trivet and as a serving board too.
Take out the warmed cocotte and carefully place the dough with the parchment paper.
Be careful as it is hot!
Cover the lid and bake it for 30 minutes.
This silicone trivet is also used as a pot holder. As it is made of silicone, it is so easy to wash and clean.
They have a handy hole to hang them easily.
The scent of the fresh bread fills the house!
My heart pounding sound soon changes to WOW! OMG!! (can you feel the muted excitement of a silent vlogger lol 🤣).
Now bake it for another 15 minutes with the lid open.
This cutting board is so flexible that I can easily transfer the chopped ingredients.
I am going to make balsamic vinegar dressing.
I am going to add chopped onion, extra-virgin olive oil, honey, salt and pepper.
My egg cooker and egg slicer are must-haves for my family who eats eggs everyday.
A little handle and a pointed spout of a measuring cup make life so much easier in the kitchen.
This wood board is perfect as a charger, right?😉
OMG, it looks so much more delicious with a beautiful golden color now!
I am silently shouting inside, ‘I can’t believe I made this bread!’ 🤣.
I thought the first thing you need for baking was a fancy standing mixer, so I did not even try at all for all those years.
Carefully take the bread out of the pot to cool it down.
I am still blown away by the fact that this bread came out without any knead or fancy baking mixer.
While waiting, I am going to make a pour-over coffee.
This is a coffee dripper made of stainless steel that lasts long and is eco-friendly.
I can also take this apart so it is easy to wash and clean.
My husband bought this plastic coffee filter without a thorough research haha 😂.
As the base can be separated, it fits well on various mugs and carafe. I am using it this way too.
A repurposed spaghetti sauce glass container and a baby formula spoon make me happy every time I use them.
The more I use Fellow products, the more I find them attractive! I really love their design and performance.
I thought this bread knife might be too long but it was a perfect fit for my knife organizer.
This no-knead bread I made is called pain de Campagne, which is crispy on the outside and soft and chewy on the inside.
I can enjoy it with cream cheese or balsamic vinegar with olive oil dip.
Oh yeah, I am still telling myself, “I can’t believe I made this bread” haha 😁. It is such a happy meal to me.
My husband and my daughter are bread lovers just like me. All of these will be gone by today for sure.
Well, it is so easy to make! I am going to make it again tonight!😉
Thanks for watching!🙏