Your logic is a bit faulty. Realtor’s don’t make money at your expense by renovations, they aren’t general contractors doing the renovations. The only way they would make more money is if the renovation increases the value of the house. Your sale price is potentially higher meaning you get more money in your pocket and…

We used to hard boil them, dye them. Some would get hidden that night. We never refrigerated the eggs after dying. We’d eat them over the next few day and I came out OK . . . oh wait.

Governor Noem must not be praying hard enough to her imaginary god to save all those imaginary souls. Whatever will we do if she isn’t victorious in her make believe quest.

Mosquitos I would understand, exterminate as many as possible, but cicadas? Why? They are cartoonishly weird looking. Yes, they are a little creepy, but harmless. Creepiness doesn’t warrant exterminating them before they can do the nasty before they die. They waited 17 years just to screw and then die. Is it so much…

My dad always cooked corned beef in a covered roasting pan in the oven for around 3 hours or whatever the size brisket called for. He put more water than usually called for so the brisket was about half in water. This took care of any dryness and the result was very tender and just the right amount of salty. During…

I found my special purpose. I’ve been training for this all my life

Depending on how much sour cream you want to add, you may need to add some sauce into the sour cream first and stir, then add it back into the sauce to keep it from breaking.

In an age where the attention span of a gnat and a hair trigger offense reaction is the rule rather than the exception, how did anyone at BK not realize this might go horribly horribly wrong.

Tongs? Rubber bands? Dammit!

While I never mentioned the bible at all and neither does the article, it deals with the religious inspired dogma of sex as shameful, I have read the bible cover to cover. Any religious doctrine, christian or otherwise that teaches that sex is evil and shameful can only cause harm by denying biological reality. You…

Another possibility, stop believing there is an invisible being with magic powers that defies all the laws of physics and is obsessed with making you suppress, deny and ignore the same biological urges that every other primate and many non primate species evolved to have. Instead use that big brain you’ve also evolved…

You also need a blowtorch too and not a kitchen torch, a real blowtorch like the Bernzomatic TS8000 with mapp gas. Great for finish off sous vide cooked foods with out heating and overcooking the insides like tiny torches tend to do. Anything you are supposed to be able to do with a kitchen torch, you really can do…

The time is way past due for people to stop with the knee jerk reactions to vilify others at every chance they get. Works, statements or actions need to be looked at in context of the time and situation. That also needs to be paired with intention. Don’t forget people do change drastically over time. In time, the most…

The dreaded slideshow. I’ll let you off with a warning this time because there were a few really good ideas I had never thought of. But next time

The same catholic church that allowed the practice of selling indulgences or sending pedo priests to new parishes whenever they exhausted the supply of altar boys at their current church? Sounds about right. Now that’s the true mystery of faith.

Peppermint oil doesn’t really work. Mice usually aren’t coming in from where you think they are. The first rain pretty much washes your scent deterrent away anyway. I had surrounded my house with a product that is ground up corncobs with a heavy dose of peppermint oil. It smells nice, but even a cloth bag full of the…

I shouldn’t have read that while drinking coffee, but it was worth every drop I now have to clean off my monitor.

He’s become one of my favorite celebrity chefs that still remembers and passes on the techniques of a working chef. I highly recommend his book “The Apprentice: My Life in the Kitchen” It’s a combination of some tips, some recipes and his long history in the kitchen and love of food from age 6 on.