Another Nebraska who is trying to distance his wanting to see the Cubs win against wanting to see the Ricketts’ family get another disappointment in November.

EDITED: The recipe for the squash rings calls for rice flour, not wheat flour. No gluten.

Why are there all those unnecessary words after “You could just eat them”???

According to the article, the alcohol in the vodka (the beer also has alcohol, but much less) evaporates faster when it hits the hot oil than the water, giving a crispier battering.

And always prepare for the unexpected. The neighbors who moved in across the street always had a big display with a haunted path to the door (the guy owns a hearse, so it should be expected). One year I came home from work on Halloween night, to find a TV camera crew at his house doing a live interview. I didn’t even…

From the listed chart, if you measure by volume (ie. teaspoon, tablespoon, cup), you use a larger volume of Sucanat than granulated/brown sugar, because the Sucanat crystals take up more room. If you measure by weight (ie. grams, ounces), you use the same weight as you would the granulated/brown sugar.

You can purchase powdered egg white or powdered meringue if you don’t want to separate eggs. Many sources online, may also be available at the local Mega-mart or bakery/craft store.

If you don’t stir it in the first minute, all pasta will stick together, whether you cook a pound of it in one gallon of water or four.

Paraphrasing from the article, it had a ‘musty’ flavor, likely due to the oil (2%, can’t remember what kind of vegetable oil it was) added during processing.

Yes, and the oxide of zinc has many, many more uses...

Have you tried contacting the credit card company and negotiating to replace it with a lower fee/no fee card? That would not delete your credit history - it just gets transferred to the new card.

There are a lot more, according to this list...

Yes, but as a merman, wouldn’t that all be streamli... oh, wait, you meant something else.

“I’d like to order 1 extra large pizza, 1/4 pepperoni, 1/4 beef and mushroom, 1/4 black olive and onion, and 1/4 extra cheese. And make sure none of the pepperoni and beef juices run into the vegetarian sections.”

Or, remember your gloves and sanitation while cutting up habanero peppers, fill up the racks in the food dehydrator, then turn it on IN THE KITCHEN. Run to the store, return in a half hour.

Already covered by Kenji in his article:

The only time I removed wasp nests from my house was when I had an allergic roommate. Otherwise, with wasps it is ‘live and let live.’

As someone who can’t even create a passable straight line using a ruler, I’ll stick with using tape.

Bobby Kennedy’s assasination. Only because he had been campaigning in our town not long before, and my older sister got to meet him, and I remember hugging her and saying “Don’t cry, don’t cry...”

One caveat to the generic vs name brand OTC drugs. While the active ingredient is identical between the two (Claritin(R) tablets and Equate(R) Loratadine tablets both contain 10 mg of loratadine at the standard dose), the inactive ingredients may be different, which can affect people with food allergies (Claritin used…