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Get three Le Creuset baking dishes for the price of one on Amazon
Le Creuset usually needs no introduction. As one of the most popular cookware brands in the country, used by home cooks and professional chefs, discounts on Le Creuset items can be few and far between. That’s why we were shocked and delighted by this incredible markdown from the brand: You can save 31% on a set of three heritage baking dishes.
CBS Essentials shopping expert Rachel Center told us that she recently purchased one Le Creuset casserole dish (with a lid) for the same price as this set of three. Whether you’re new to cooking or are a seasoned baker, we highly recommend taking advantage of this deal before it disappears.
Le Creuset Heritage three-piece rectangular baking dish set: Save 31%
This baking set includes just about all the baking dishes you’ll ever need. It includes one small, one-quart dish (7.5 inches), one medium, 2.5-quart dish (ten inches), and one large, four-quart dish (12.5 inches). The small baking dish doubles as a loaf pan and is great for making small batch desserts such as brownies. The medium baking dish is great for meals for one, including quiche, baked mac and cheese, pot pie or the viral baked feta pasta recipe. The large baking dish is a traditional casserole dish, which can be used to make enchiladas, lasagna, scalloped potatoes and more.
Le Creuset’s Heritage rectangular baking dishes are made of stone, a material known for its durability and even heat distribution. These baking dishes can withstand temperatures up to 500 degrees in the oven and the high-heat environment of a broiler. Just make sure to position it at least 2.5 inches below the heating element.
You can also put these baking dishes in the freezer and microwave, making them great for storing and reheating leftovers. The stoneware is finished with a beautiful enameled coating that makes the dishes nonstick and scratch resistant, so unlike nonstick cookware, you can use metal utensils when stirring or taking bakes out of the dishes. Plus, all the beautiful colors available, which include the brand’s signature Caribbean shade, will look great sitting in the middle of the dinner party table.
This baking dish set has a 4.5-star rating on Amazon. One reviewer wrote, “We have used [the baking dishes] for everything from brownies to lasagna and everything has cooked perfectly with no staining to the dish! Plus these look fantastic in our kitchen!!”
Another customer, who posted their review on Nordstrom, said of the baking dishes: “Wonderful and love how they stack together! It helps with storage. The color green is beautiful. I’m very happy with my purchase!”
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1-month-old twins who died with mother believed to be the youngest-known Hurricane Helene victims
Month-old twin boys are believed to be the youngest known victims of Hurricane Helene. The boys died alongside their mother last week when a large tree fell through the roof of their home in Thomson, Georgia.
Obie Williams, grandfather of the twins, said he could hear babies crying and branches battering the windows when he spoke with his daughter, Kobe Williams, 27, on the phone last week as the storm tore through Georgia.
The single mother had been sitting in bed holding sons Khyzier and Khazmir and chatting on the phone with various family members while the storm raged outside.
Kobe’s mother, Mary Jones, was staying with her daughter, helping her take care of the babies. She was on the other side of the trailer home when she heard a loud crash as a tree fell through the roof of her daughter’s bedroom.
“Kobe, Kobe, answer me, please,” Jones cried out in desperation, but she received no response.
Kobe and the twins were found dead.
“I’d seen pictures when they were born and pictures every day since, but I hadn’t made it out there yet to meet them,” Obie Williams told The Associated Press days after the storm ravaged eastern Georgia. “Now I’ll never get to meet my grandsons. It’s devastating.”
The babies, born Aug. 20, are the youngest known victims of a storm that had claimed more than 200 lives across Florida, Georgia, Tennessee, Virginia and the Carolinas. Among the other young victims are a 7-year-old girl and a 4-year-old boy from about 50 miles (80 kilometers) south in Washington County, Georgia.
“She was so excited to be a mother of those beautiful twin boys,” said Chiquita Jones-Hampton, Kobe’ Jones’ niece. “She was doing such a good job and was so proud to be their mom.”
Jones-Hampton, who considered Kobe a sister, said the family is in shock and heartbroken.
In Obie Williams’ home city of Augusta, 30 miles east of his daughter’s home in Thomson, power lines stretched along the sidewalks, tree branches blocked the roads and utility poles lay cracked and broken. The debris left him trapped in his neighborhood near the South Carolina border for a little over a day after the storm barreled through.
He said one of his sons dodged fallen trees and downed power lines to check on Kobe, and he could barely bear to tell his father what he found.
Many of his 14 other children are still without power in their homes across Georgia. Some have sought refuge in Atlanta, and others have traveled to Augusta to see their father and mourn together, he said.
He described his daughter as a lovable, social and strong woman. She always had a smile and loved to make people laugh, he said.
And she loved to dance, Jones-Hampton said.
“That was my baby,” Williams said. “And everybody loved her.”
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