The Saucepan

In the beginning it was just about a  saucepan.  You know the small ones​ that are just the right size for a can of soup.  One day I came across what looked like a great saucepan at Big Lots.  It was the right size, non-stick, and it was cheap.   When I tried to use it the darn thing wouldn’t sit still.  Apparently the handle was heavier than the pan so it just tipped over.  You can imagine trying to hold the pan upright with one hand and attempting to open the can of soup with the other.  I actually used this pan for a couple of years, I did complain a lot but hey, it was the right sized saucepan. 

Then one day I stumbled on to the perfect sauce pan at Home Goods.  We know Home Goods is a step up from Big Lots so maybe this saucepan is the one.  I brought it home and lovingly made soup for lunch, dumping with one hand the stirring with the other.  The pan just sat there like a good saucepan should.  I loved this little saucepan.  

I’m old school, I use small saucepans often, I usually take out a pan before I think to put something in the microwave. Trying to carry a steaming bowl of soup to the table when it is fresh out of the microwave,  seems like a recipe for disaster. My new little sauce pan was such a success I decided to go back to Home Goods and find another one. 

Sure enough when I arrived at Home Goods they had my Green Pans twin just sitting there waiting for me.  As I continued to browse,  I found several other nice Green pans.  I came home with a skillet type pan with deep sides that is perfect for making paella,  if I could make paella that is, otherwise it is just a great  pan.  

Since Monty is the chief dishwasher of pots and pans his opinion of the pans is important.  He gave them a hearty thumbs up. These pans are making life a bit easier.  So he suggested  replacing our fifteen year old skillets with some of these Green skillets.  In the next week Amazon delivered a set of three skillets.   Wow, these are  great skillets, they should have come with a chef hat!  

I have several  friends who swear by their  air fryers.  I thought a new Air Fryer might rev up our dinner choices.  When they were on sale at Target I ran over to get one. The air fryer comes with a laminated sheet with lists  of  veggies, meats and assorted other stuff to air fry, bake, or broil. I had the misconception that everything would be quicker in this air fryer, but that just isn’t so.  There is the preheat stage, the heated stage then turn over the food stage, then the heat again stage and finally the timer goes off and you have ONE thing prepared for dinner. Not a meal but just a pork chop.         

While at Target I saw a small crock pot.  We have a crock pot, bought on impulse years ago, and it is much too big for our family of two.  So for $19.00 we have a new perfect sized crock pot. This small one works the same as the larger one but it isn’t as heavy  and Monty claims it is much easier to clean up.  

While looking at the air fryer and crock pot I saw a lot of nice toasters.  OK I didn’t buy one, I mean really this is nuts.  But the next time we were at Costco  Monty suggested we look for a toaster, after all we have new pots, skillets, air fryer and crockpot if we get a new toaster it is almost like being a newly weds.  

We are now the proud owners of a Cuisinart toaster.  It is much better than the $10 Big Lots toaster we’ve had for seven years.   

I don’t know how a saucepan escalated into an entire kitchen but I’m glad it did.