I love looking for new kitchen gadgets and tools!  This month, I had a lot of fun shopping for neat gift ideas for my Holiday Edition Kitchen Favorites video.  

This month's favorites features 10 products, some small enough for stocking suffers and some already boxed for gifting.  If you haven't watched the video yet, check it out here.  

Giveaway Closed:  
Congratulations to Nicole Nguyen!
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I'll be giving away the super cute Silpat Macaron Kit.  It comes with everything you need to make your own macarons at home:

• piping tips
• piping bag
• Silpat macaron baking mat
• food coloring gels
• recipes
• candy thermometer 
• and more!

This month, the Albertsons Safeway family of stores is hosting a national "Hunger Is" campaign.

The program helps to raise awareness and funds that will help hungry children and their families through local food banks.

This month, I'm supporting the Hunger Is campaign by shopping at my local Safeway and making a purchase of a participating product.  

 
♥ Each purchase helps earn a meal, connecting hungry kids 
in our local neighborhoods with healthy food. ♥

Looking to buy new hot pot equipment?  If you love cooking Asian hot pot at home, you'll need a portable tabletop burner.  Either a butane gas burner or an electric skillet.  I've used both and my preference is the electric skillet. The ones I use at home are the Zojirushi brand.  I've got an older model of this one and the newer model Gourmet d'Expert Electric Skillet (EP-PBC10).  Yes, I have two! Comes in handy when you have a big group of mouths to feed.  ; )

The reason why I prefer the electric skillet over the gas burner is because of the butane cans.  Each butane can usually lasts me around an hour or so (depending on how high you've used the flame) and that's not enough time to eat a whole meal (hey, I eat slow).  This means I need to change cans mid-eating.  Even though it only takes a few minutes, I'd prefer not to.