Tuesday, April 12, 2011




Use the Bowls in Your Dinnerware Set For Quick Meals and Easy Snacks

Winter cold outside means time for chili indoors. Family and friends keep warm inside by eating a hot bowlful of your favorite casserole straight from the oven. The menu might also include soup, stew or chowder, as well as a classic comfort food dessert like apple crisp and peach cobbler.

In the warm days of summer, favorite foods include crunchy and cool salads made with greens or fruits. Eat these as you relax on the deck or patio.

All these foods, and more, are ideally served in bowls.

Dinnerware sets include at least one size of bowls. Casual tableware may have only one size, meant to serve a wide variety of foods. More formal china has two, three or perhaps even more sizes, from petite ones for fruit, wide ones for soup, deep ones for cereal, and even larger pieces for pasta.

Things you always wanted to know about bowls:

Cereal bowls are deeper, to allow for the bulky flakes or squares, while soup bowls are often shallow.
Some soup and cereal bowls have rims, and others are a coupe shape - that is, sleekly curved without a rim.
Rims on soup bowls are often wide, while rims on cereal bowls are narrow.
Soups that are served with crackers do well in cereal bowls.
Some dinnerware manufacturers make both soup and cereal bowls in their product lines. Others make an all purpose bowl to use for both.
Two-handled bowls in fine china patterns are generally called cream soup bowls, intended for soups made with milk or cream.
Wide soup bowls work great for green salads.
Extra large soup bowls can double for serving pasta, such as spaghetti or mostaccioli.

Depending on the menu, there is a bowl for every dish.

Vintage china sets may include types of bowls not commonly used today, such as lug-handled, though you might remember them from childhood.

Perhaps the special bowl you remember was the one you used at grandma's dining table, when you had your morning cereal or a special dessert. What a special gift, to give or get: a set of bowls to use and remember those special times, eating your favorite foods at home.


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