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Travel Essentials
As a seasoned travel blogger and travel expert, these are my top travel essentials. The best travel gear that I have personally used and recommend.
Best Crossbody Travel Bag
My every day crossbody bag has been to multiple countries and adventures. It holds A LOT (including my DSLR!), and has tons of antitheft features to keep everything safe.
Best Hardside Expandable Carry-On Luggage Under $100
One of my fave carry-ons that I have traveled with for several years: a 20" Spinner Luggage. Perfect for everything from overnight trips to 2-week travels through Europe!
Best Hardside Carry-On Luggage Under $300
My newest carry-on luggage as of 2019, this Away luggage is worth the price. It's sturdy, lightweight, holds a lot, keeps things organized, and really wheels smoothly through airports to trains to city streets!
Best Travel Backpack Under $200
This Away travel backpack is sleek and keeps everything in its place. Love the secret back pocket and sly front side pocket. Perfect on its own for an overnight trip or weekend trip. I pair it with the Away Bigger Carry-On for longer trips.
TRAVEL CLOTHING
When you travel, you need to be comfortable and your clothes need to move with you - without getting messed up or getting in your way. The clothing below is great for all of your travel adventures!
My fave travel sneakers
For comfy sneakers while traveling, I love these Sorel Women's Kinetic Sneaks. They come in many colors and they are super comfy. I also workout in these and have taken them for up to 5-mile runs!
Athleta Brooklyn Ankle Pant
The Brooklyn Ankle Pant from Athleta is super comfortable, made with breathable material, and stays smooth and not wrinkly while you are on the go during travels.
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Kitchen Essentials
These are my tried and true kitchen essentials. These are the best kitchen tools I personally use in my homecooking! From my favorite cooking tools to baking tools, the best small appliances for homecooks, and more, this kitchen essentials checklist will help you master most recipes in your home kitchen!
Best Multi-Cooker Appliance
I love my Ninja Foodi! I have the Foodi 8-Quart 9-in-1 Deluxe XL Pressure Cooker (model FD401). In addition to pressure cooking, it can air fry, broil, dehydrate, slow cook, sear/saute, and more. And I can often cook two items - a side and a main dish - at the SAME time in the Foodi!
Best Instant Pot
I have and use this 8-quart Instant Pot Duo a few times a week. Be sure to check out my Instant Pot Recipes!
Best Blender
This Vitamix is one of the more affordable Vitamix blenders, and it gets the job done! I use this blender almost every day, for smoothies, soups, sauces, and so much more!
Best Stand Mixer
This 5-quart KitchenAid Stand Mixer is a workhorse in my kitchen! I use it almost every day for everything from cookies to pizza dough to icing. I use mine so much, I have two: one in a limited edition Ocean Drive color, and one in white.
Best Slow Cooker
I've had this Ninja 3-in-1 Cooking System for years, and it's amazing! I love using it mainly as a slow cooker. I also love to use it to keep food warm for parties. Cleans up easily too!
Daterra Cucina Cookware
Daterra Cucina is a Portland, Oregon-based family business that makes my favorite everyday cooking pans! They are professional grade, ceramic, non-stick, non-toxic pans that cook food BEAUTIFULLY and are super easy to clean. I love them and know you will, too!
Best Air Fryer: Rack Style
This is my newest air fryer. I love my basket style air fryer, but also needed to do recipe testing with a rack style air fryer since so many of you now use this style. The InstantPot Vortex Plus is a 7-in-1 workhorse that serves as an Air Fryer, Toaster Oven, and Rotisserie Oven, which allows it to Air Fry, Rotisserie, Roast, Broil, Bake, Reheat, and Dehydrate. The 10-quart capacity means you can air fry A LOT OF FOOD in one batch! Versus making several batches in the 5-6 Quart basket style air fryers.
Best Air Fryer: Basket Style
It took me a while to develop air fryer recipes that my whole family loved. During our kitchen remodel, I learned how to create delicious dishes using our GoWise Air Fryer, and now I love it! This 5.8 Quart, 8-in-1, XL Air Fryer is perfect size for families with 3+ people.
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Camera Equipment
This is the camera gear I use every day for the blog and for my social media photos, as well as for my food, wine, and travel photography business.
My Current Favorite Camera for Blogging
In early 2019, I upgraded to the Canon 5D Mark IV. It's a full frame DSLR that's worth every penny. The Canon 5D Mark IV is heavy for a travel camera, but I absolutely love it because I can always count on it. I use this camera for food photography, for both studio recipe photos and on location restaurant photography, for wine photography, and for travel photography. It's great for taking 4K video, and the ISO range allows it to take great night photos.
My Second Camera for Blogging
I've had the Canon 70D for a few years now, and it served as my main blogging camera for a while. It's a great crop sensor DSLR, and allows you to take great video as well as photos. I really love the flip touch screen of the Canon 70D.
SanDisk 128GB Extreme Pro Memory Card
These memory cards are the best! Especially when I travel, I am able to take tons of photos and 4K video on each card
Wine Essentials
We love to entertain at home, and having a well stocked wine bar helps make entertaining easy. Here are some of the wine fridges, wine glasses, and wine accessories that we have and love.
Coravin Model Six Wine Preservation System
We have an older Coravin, and these are great for serving small amounts of wine at a time and then preserving the rest of the bottle for longer periods of time.
Wine Fridge
We have the NewAir 46 bottle wine fridge, similar to the one in this link.
Riedel Vinum Pinot Noir Wine Glasses
Because everybody needs quality Pinot Noir glasses. This comes in a set of 2.
Riedel Ouverture Set of White and Red Wine Glasses
If you're looking to buy a set, this is an affordable one from renowned wine glass maker Riedel. This comes in a set of 12.
Riedel Rose/Champagne Wine Glass Set
These glasses are super sexy. Perfect for serving anything bubbly or rosé! This comes in a set of 4.
Riedel Vinum Champagne Glass
Beautiful, elegant champagne glasses. This comes in a set of 2.
Riedel Veritas New World Pinot Noir Wine Glass Set of 2
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