There is a cal-mag-zinc supplement that is 3 fairly large pills as the dosage, so I tend to take them at my morning, midday and evening pill times. People don't realize that you don't have to take them all at once, you can spread meds or OTC supplements over the entire day. I worked with my endocrinologist and…

And beef bacon - I do prefer pork bacon, a nice thick cut country style, but I had some beef bacon a few years back and it was really quite good. I am not fond of the soy based fake bacons or cold cuts [the bologna was nasty but the sliced 'turkey' was ok with lots of mustard.] I know people are trying to have an…

mmmm, horse! Not fond of goat, but I do like me some horse. Best version of boeuf bourguinon I ever had was made with about a kilo of horse tenderloin in Germany.

Well, frequently bread is made with milk powder [or actual milk] and other ingredients that may be 'contaminated' from the vegetarian or vegan viewpoint. I frequently make challa which has both milk and eggs which is fine for a vegetarian, but not a vegan and has just a dab of sugar to help the yeast proof - which may…

Back in 1969 at the tender age of 8 my Dad took me to lunch at the Pen and Pencil in NYC, where I ordered steak tartar. The poor waiter spend about 15 minutes trying to convince me that the chef could turn it into the perfect hamburger - right up until he saw me mix in the raw egg, capers and raw chopped onion and dig…

Buttermilk biscuits, buttermilk scones, buttermilk pancakes ...

Get the sprog a stepstool like my parents did back in the 1960s, and ditch the stupid bathroom dainty faucets and get one of the taller more arched kitchen faucets like we did. I have 6 goddaughters [yikes, the YOUNGEST is now 12, how the hell did that happen] and we went for the large rectangular sink and this type…

Probably not, but being diabetic I try to eliminate any sugars I can and go for liquid splenda, and being allergic to mushrooms I am at risk if someone uses certain 'natural flavorings' to boost umami. Mushroom powder is not a good thing for me [and to a lesser extent I am allergic to shellfish, so many forms of…

We were watching and my thought was that I would absolutely LOVE to see someone doing something to Rammstein's Engel [

I wouldn't use bacon fat, it has salt and other possible chemicals [to give bacon the nice smokey taste] Lard is a reasonably neutrally flavored fat [it does have a slight porky taste, just like tallow has a slight beefy taste, and schmaltz has a slight chickeny taste.]

Lots of fun [though I admit we tend to have chip and dip nights where we have guac and salsa, garlic/artichoke heart hummus and french onion dip with corn chips, potato chips and pita chips. Nice break from a more formal dinner on sunday evenings.]

mush in 3 or 4 roasted garlic cloves, avoids the whole raw garlic taste and no need for dried garlic.

Works for me! I would so totally watch that. Leave the guns on, moto-biethelon! Just need to figure out the placement for the pop up targets =)

IH used to be great, at least their small truck division. I put almost half a million miles on my 79 Scout 2 - original engine gave out at the 320 000 mile mark, only reason I don't still have it is my husband hit a patch of black ice and totalled it. So easy to work on the thing, minimal electronic crap to deal with.…

And I did the reverse, I introduced drop box and spreadsheets to my EVE Online corp industrial group which made making caps and supercaps so much easier. Now people can log in and see what still needs manufacturing before the final ship goes into production. Who knew that being an accountant in real life would be…

Well, last time we went from Fresno to SF, we took about 4 hours and it was an easy drive [as opposed to the time we were in northern CA back in 1989 when we decided that visiting an earthquake wouldn't be the touristy fun my first trip to visit his family should have been.] and why yes, Gilroy does smell like garlic…

Not to mention multiple killer good farmers markets, including one from the local ag college that has some of the most amazing stuff, being 4 hours easy drive from San Francisco, about the same from Castroville [I absolutely adore artichokes] a couple hours from Gilroy [I also adore garlic and the air smells…

Perhaps when the enemy stops setting car bombs, IEDs and such taking out citizens as well as military. Though I do seem to remember 3 jets being used as impromptu weapons and taking out part of the Pentagon and these big buildings in New York... or maybe those were imaginary.

<shrug> I stopped shopping at WalMart back in 2003 when WoW came out. I had the program on my computer because I was a beta tester, and when the roll out came, I bought a copy at Walmart because at first the only way you could get a game key was in the boxed game. When I brought it home, I had 3 AOL CDs in cases in…

I find a nice hot cup of black tea soothes a sore throat when I have one. I always thought it was the tannic acid doing it.