Little Green Buddy

That's a cherry tomato, to give you an idea of the small size of the most useful kitchen tool I've bought this year.

It's a really, really small colander that I bought mainly because it made me laugh - so small and so very green it was! It's made by Zak!Designs and I got it at one of those fancy-pants cooking stores. I honestly can't recall which one - they are all irresistible to me. On a bad day, some women resort to chocolate; I head for a cooking store to drool over the place mats and the mixers.

Anyway, I remember thinking when I got it home, "Now, why didn't you just pass that one by??" but I have eaten my words many times since then. It's a great size, just enough for washing a basket of strawberries or cherry tomatoes, rinsing a few veggies for us two, or holding just enough mushrooms for making Joe's Special from Cookiecrumb's recipe.

I have used this little beauty so many times that I don't bother to put it away any more. It just lives in the drainboard awaiting the next time I reach for my little green buddy.