Oooh, Lifehacker should do a follow-up on this about adding mad amounts of cabinet/counter space to your kitchen to accommodate “tools” that take up too much space and only do one thing. Either that or figure out 49 other things this sandwich maker can do to make it worth having.

Oooh, Lifehacker should do a follow-up on this about adding mad amounts of cabinet/counter space to your kitchen to…

Thanks for this post. I’m a 38 min 5k jogger, and I never want to talk about running because of my times. I like to mention the miles I get in through the week, though, but I rarely do because I know it’ll lead to the time question. I’m glad to know there are a lot of us out there. I don’t time myself anymore. I just…

There are things I like about inbox, but more and more I find myself gong to Gmail. The biggest reason is to be able format text. I’m still pretty surprised there aren’t rich text options in inbox. Plus, and this may be my own ignorance, when I get email, gmail and inbox alert me on my phone. I’ve tried correcting…

I set out to do this yesterday but was frustrated that sodium citrate is impossible to find at a moment’s notice. I opted for my old friend corn starch, and it did a really wonderful job. I used about a tbsp of corn starch for a cup of milk, used my immersion blender, once thickened, I threw in a big handful of colby…

Oh Lord go get one. Soups and stew bases. Creamy sauces. Any kind of gravy. Custards (when your kids inevitably distract you at a crucial moment causing some unfortunate lumps) are recovered perfectly. Any type of Indian sauce. HOME MADE MAYO! One cup of light olive oil. One egg. Season to taste. Immersion blender and…

I did exactly this when I was working in an office near where I lived until last November. It took a few times to get the whole routine right. Getting everything, including shower supplies together and packed into my gym bag in the order I’d need them was crucial. I would leave my glasses at my desk, leave my tie and…

I discovered the two ingredient method a few years back, and that is just the best. If you whip the cream till the point where it fluffs but doesn’t get stiff, the resulting ice cream is so velvety smooth it’s unreal. Throw in the ingredients of choice (I do Nutella from time to time, and it’s fairly magnificent), let…

Whether you agree or disagree, please remember the OP published this in an effort to be helpful or contribute to a larger discussion, which is very worthwhile and shouldn’t be met with acrimony. Sometimes, as a parent, it’s nice to know you’re not alone with a challenge and you’re looking for hope as well as ideas if…

Vinegar works as well, it’s cheaper, and it can bought on Sundays here in TN. Plus, according to some sources, it fights cancer, colds, obesity, rickets, lycanthropy, depression, dementia, synesthesia, gout, bad breath, erectile dysfunction, and yeast infections.

This is what I do as well, and it’s darn handy. One thing left off this list is biscuits. Use the mix without vanilla, eggs, or sugar and you’ve got biscuit dough. I keep a very large plastic jar labeled “Scratch” in the pantry. I’ve been teaching my daughter to cook and just this weekend I highlighted the importance…

Oddly, it’s unaffordable to make soup but not to eat the highly-inflated-priced junk sold at concerts, conventions, etc.? I’m not trying to be snarky, I just think that doesn’t comport. Soup is dead easy, dirt cheap, and far better than any canned crap you could find. Road trips, pack food. Stop at actual stores and…

Venue: Used a relative with a big yard on the lake so it was free.
Photographer: Friend who gave us the pics as a wedding gift.
Food: We asked family to bring dishes. A few members smoked pork and chickens and everyone else brought sides.
Booze: We asked our friends to bring bottles of their favorite instead of giving…

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I was about to add something very similar. My experience is with the theatre rather than books, but the lessons are the same. When trusted professionals look at the work fresh, lots of darlings are offed, no doubt. However, you sometimes have to fight ferociously for little things when you believe in them. In the end,…

Another option I've used is to make a creamy (almost custardy) base using corn starch. You can whip that into a creamy dressing. I've used almond milk, rice milk, soy milk, and even water (as experiments) to make Ranch dressing, honey mustard, and at least a couple of truly terrible originals we won't speak of. It's…

Quick warning to anyone who may want to try this with skinless chicken, don't. I'm not sure if the brick method linked mentions this, but at least with cast iron, I have made the mistake of having a large portion of skin folded back (careless oversight on my part) so the top skillet was in contact with breast flesh.…

Oh, I see. Facts have become strange, elusive things in the yeas since I was in college. Lord I feel old.

I did take journalism classes and got a degree in Technical Communications, and I guarantee you if we had used "true fact" in our writing, we would have lost a letter grade in many classes. We were taught a fact is always true. Anything else should receive qualifiers. For example, a perceived fact, an assumed fact, a…

We're still having the OS wars? So many lives lost to the flames of this senseless war over the years. When will we learn? I like 'em all for different reasons. I don't like some things about any one of them. Big deal. We're like a compu-hippie-commune in this house. Every OS welcome...except BeOS. Screw anyone who…

For my entire life, I have hated mushrooms of nearly every variety. However, after deciding on a whim several years ago to do this very thing, I discovered how to love them. I still don't care for them individually, but I buy the dried shiitakes and grind them very fine and use them in sauces and broths of all kinds.…