7 products to get your kitchen ready for winter. Get yourself cosy and set for seasonal baking with these adorable additions to your kitchen.
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Winter can be challenging, in many ways. Frosty mornings, cold afternoons, dark evenings. Seasonal food is a bit more scarce, and the need for warm meals and treats increases rather dramatically.
If you’re reading this, I imagine you’re not entirely devastated by the change of seasons. Winter is a great season for many bakers and home cooks. Grey days are a perfect excuse to bake, and nothing cheers up the soul like a slice of something sweet. Fruity crumbles, gooey pies, hot drinks piled high with toppings. The coldest season isn’t always the worst.
Today I’m sharing 7 products to get your kitchen ready for winter. These are perfect functional and decorative products, even if you’re not an all-out snow lover or Christmas fanatic. You’ll find them all budget-friendly, or good investments for your cooking repertoire.
7 Products to Get Your Kitchen Ready for Winter
1. Cast Iron Pot
Truly the foundation for hundreds of winter meals. Whether you’re roasting meat, simmering soup, or baking a fresh loaf of sourdough, a cast iron pot is an essential.
Cast iron conducts and retains heat more efficiently than most pans. They can be found in sizes to accommodate big batch cooking, preparing dinner for the whole family, or a quick lunch for two. They are also beautiful visual additions to a kitchen, available in whichever colour you like, and timelessly pretty.
2. Monin Premium Gingerbread Syrup
Hot drinks are non-negotiable if you live in a chilly country. However, we all know that flashing cash on big chain coffee shop drinks isn’t exactly practical.
If you love generous cupfuls of warm milky drinks at this time of year, building your own home coffee bar is great fun. Your favourite coffee blends, hot chocolate varieties, or flavoured syrups are a great place to start. I love gingerbread syrup in November and December (nothing tastes quite so festive first thing in the morning!), and this one is particularly good.
3. Nigel Slater’s Christmas Chronicles
Nigel Slater’s writing perfectly encapsulates the chilly seasons. No one quite evokes feelings from food like he does.
This book brings you through the first nippy mornings to the cosy embrace of the new year. He somehow manages to romanticise the cold, and make you long for an evening in front of some fairytale fireplace. The meals and desserts laced throughout his writing will get you excited to get into the kitchen, even on the darkest nights.
4. Loose Leaf Tea Pot
Tea is a winter essential (and spring, and summer, and autumn essential…) but there’s something really special about making a proper nice cuppa.
Teabags, of course, do the job. However, until you try a fancy blend of flavoured loose-leaf tea, you’re definitely missing out. If you want to treat yourself to something a bit more exciting than the usual black or green tea, try some inspired by flowers, or by cake, or by chocolate! A nice tea pot will really level up your tea break, letting you brew a nice few cups and keep it hot at the same time.
5. Hotel Chocolat Velvetiser
Speaking of levelling up, you haven’t had hot chocolate until you’ve had a velvetised hot chocolate.
No need to worry about finding lumps of dry cocoa powder hiding at the bottom of your cup. The Velvetiser from Hotel Chocolate warms and blends your milk with flakes of real chocolate. Available in a range of different dark, milk, and white flavour combinations, this stuff is the real deal. Smooth, creamy, and properly chocolatey, not just sugary. While this machine is a bit of an investment, it’s a truly great one if you love a nice hot drink in the colder months.
6. Nigella Lawson’s Christmas
I don’t think anyone quite embodies the spirit of Christmas cooking like Queen Nigella does. Both quietly comforting and exuberantly excessive, this lady knows how to write a great recipe.
In this festive volume, you’ll find recipes for cocktails, nibbles, dinners, leftovers, and desserts. There’s even a whole colour-coded and time-stamped section on preparing everything you need to eat and drink on Christmas day itself. With timeless tips, and endless edible joy, this book is truly a keeper.
7. Slow Cooker
You may well have one of these tucked away in your kitchen already, but if you don’t, you should.
Stews, soups, casseroles, roasts, sauces. A slow cooker is a no-brainer for family or big-batch cooking this season. Nowadays there are whole cookbooks dedicated to slow cooker recipes, and hundreds more online, so you’ll never be short of ideas!
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So those are 7 products to get your kitchen ready for winter, and to get you inspired for all the lovely festivity of the colder months. Get your oven preheated and let’s do some seasonal baking!
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