Nice! My husband is the one around here with the green thumb, I need the aerogarden to minimize my contact with plants ... I managed to kill an air fern once while following the directions perfectly. *sigh* We grew romaine in the aerogarden and it turned out ok though I would rather grow it in a windowbox or self…

Nice. There is a cute little butter head lettuce [tiny tim, tom or something like that] that has a 45 day life, though for bang for the buck radishes are 20 days. I absolutely adore radishes and they are the perfect windowbox grower along with something like granada loose leaf red lettuce.

And so damned easy to make. I adore making a basic garlic and parsley butter 'sauce' for them.

I have nothing against jello based 'salads' and fancy desserts, hell, I grew up next o the town where jello originated and believe me I have eaten my share of jello =) It is just that some things shouldn't be considered food, and crap like cool whip is definitely one of them. If you look into food history, the odd…

Only thing I don't like as leftovers is anything fish/seafood *except* for my homemade fish chowder.

Being diabetic, I menu plan everything [though we do go out to eat, as long as I can plan ahead I can eat anything I am not actively allergic to ... ]

Hell, we had a veggie garden when I was growing up and my brother and I [and assorted cousins and friends] used to hang out in the garden and eat random veggies, and the pears, plums and apples when ripe ... there is absolutely NOTHING like a cob of corn right off the plant, shucked and eaten raw. Sweet as candy.

In medieval history the leftovers [including uneaten bread trenchers*] were given to the poor that came to the kitchen door - the servants if they were not fed specifically prepared foods ate the leftovers first. [Royals, nobles and petty nobles, do I need to say? =) ]

Having undergone the classic diabetic food education at least 5 times, and having worked in a *real* restaurant kitchen I know portion control =)

I used to have an account with American Frozen Foods, and the thing I adored was I could get portion controlled individually flash frozen meat. They had a 6 oz NY strip steak that was fantastic. We had friends over one 4th of July for a cookout and they were pissed off that we had 'microscopic steaks' - in addition to…

My roomies exfiancee threw away almost a whole Smithfield ham because he thought it went bad ...

Aerogarden of herbs FTW. I also suffer seasonal affective disease, so I have mine set to turn on at 5 am, and off at 11 pm .. it sits in my bedroom between my bed and my desk. Win win situation, I get a general light, and I don't need a special SAD light. I have to keep using the herbs or they take over the bedside…

change the cool whip to real whipped cream, and depending on the flavor of jello with the strawberries [and providing they are not the presweetened or in syrup strawberries] and I would give it a try. [allergic to coconut/palm/tropical based crap. Cool whip is not food, it is white garbage that people pass off as…

grossgrain ribbons, and folded around a piece of woven cotton cording [like drapery pull cording] and then glued down to the cardstock. I just checked wedding gawker and a couple other craft sites and didn't find anything like this particular invite, but looking at what was there, that is more or less my…

It almost looks like the ribbons have a cord that is supposed to be tied in a knot ....

I have the first pair of speakers I bought, back in 1997. I use the same model of trackball I have been using since 2002 and the same g11 keyboard since 2005. If it ain't broke, it doesn't need replacing.

Scuse me? I am 53. I frequently discover guys I am gaming with are anywhere from 12 to 18 ... I tend to joke with them that I have unopened mail marked urgent on my desk older than they are ... and I do honestly have clothing older than they are. If the first pregnancy I had lived, she would have been 30 this past…

Simplistic response [not that I recommend this, mind you]

I have good cholesterol numbers, amazingly malignant hypertension [unmedicated I hit 210/190. I don't skip my meds, *ever*] and another noncholesterol related heart condition and about 5 years back my cardiologist recommended I do a glass of wine with dinner [he specified red]. Don't know if it is any help, but it…

That pulled pork looks fantastic. There was a little hole in the wall diner that had its own bbq pit out back on Little Creek in Norfolk, but it was gone when we were back 3 years ago. Progress isn't always an improvement.