A New Knife

Several months back my husband returned from a trip to BJs Wholesale Club with a Cuisinart porcelain knife.  I'd heard about them and seen a few advertised on TV but had never used one before.

The knife is amazing!  Cutting vegetables is almost fun.  Salad greens?  It does a wonderful job and because it's porcelain, you don't get browned edges on the head lettuce.  It's incredibly sharp so watch the finger tips please.

We used the knife on something with bones which is a no-no.  It is the one thing that will chip the knife and it did do that.  Several small chips are visible.  But it hasn't ruined the knife by any means and it still cuts better than anything else in the knife drawer.

So I recommend this knife to all the readers.  A happy cook cooks more! 

So here we are on December 20th with just days to go until Christmas.  How can we tie knives into all of this? 

We need to know ourselves well enough to realize that some things are just not good for us.  Maybe it's a certain type of TV program or maybe watching too much political discussion on TV.  Maybe it's a hobby that has gotten out of hand, eating too much of our time and pulling us away from our loved ones.  Maybe it's our "smart" phone.  Maybe it's texting.  Maybe it's certain reading material.  Maybe it's sitting too much OR running too much.  With knife-like precision, we need to take the big step of cutting things out of our lives that we know in our guts are not good.

An innocent drive up to Cleveland to the casino?  Maybe not good for us if we have certain tendencies. 

As we head into Christmas and then beyond to the first day of the new year, everyone will be talking about resolutions.  What shall we resolve to do in 2014? 

Before we can resolve anything, we need to cut out those things in our life that would make almost any resolution less likely to stick. 

So each time I get out the porcelain knife from the knife drawer, I'm going to think about what in my life needs to be cut out or cut down.  It's something to think about.

Have you made your cookies yet?  I'm done as of yesterday and so happy about it.  Take care, readers.