Have paella, won't travel

For the past couple of years around this time I would have my luggage packed and at the ready, maps printed and time off from work all in order to head to Nashville, Tenn. for a wonderful demo presented by Alton Brown at the Opryland Hotel. Alas, this summer the hotel is recovering from the spring floods and AB isn't hitting the demo circuit until the Fabulous Food Show in November.

That means I can cook more instead of traveling. Fortunately, I have recieved an offer to do a product review from CSN.com stores. The great folks who have provided items for some of the blog's giveaways. Big hand to them, everyone. YAY!

So looking through their 200+ online stores to find something I need and could review, I started with www.cookware.com/. What can I say, have a cooking equipment weakness like Imelda Marcos does for shoes.

Since AB did the paella episode earlier this year, that item has been on the top of my new cooking equipment acquisition list. Happily, I can report cookware.com has a wide range of paellas. I'm going with carbon steel, 13.375" model. I think it will be big enough to handle what is needed of it from me.

Since I've become more interested in coffee of late. A late bloomer in that department, I suppose. I was very interested in getting a coffee maker despite the fact the Alton told us in the coffee episode to rig up some contraption.

There's a cute (yes, I said cute) coffee maker by Kalorik that comes in lime green or tangerine. The University of Tennessee alumna in me says go with the orange and white configuration, but green has always been my favorite color. Either color, this coffee maker comes with a bonus frother... sweet.

Anyway, stay tuned for details on the items. Especially that paella!