If the skin bugs you, you could always use canned tomatoes. The San Marzano variety makes good salsa, or sauce, or whatever else you want to use them for.

You're blanching and deseeding your tomatoes for salsa? I just chop them up and throw them in the bowl. The skins and seeds never bugged me. I definitely skin and deseed for tomato sauce, but, well, that's tomato sauce...

But it's probably the same amount of effort, or close to it. If you're going to chop things up and throw them into a salsa you could just chop things up FOR a salsa...

Perhaps there are other things the body scan style meditation is good for, but they didn't look into those things.

I find that sitting meditation + yin yoga are a nice combination.

A friend of mine brings me 2 crates of meyer lemons from his father's tree every year. I juice some of them and freeze that into cubes. I imagine you could do this with limes, too.

I've mixed olive oil into butter before, and it's really good. Just know that extra virgin olive oil has a pretty distinctive flavor.

This is a pretty good idea, but I have to agree with the others on how he's cutting it. If you're going to cut it in half, you may as well just keep cutting off slices using the same cut.

I like to cut it in half, put the sliced side down on a cutting board, then slice the rind off in strips (same technique you'd use…

OK, so one of the items needed for making your own biodegradable flour pot is.... a biodegradable flower pot?

We do this all the time. Works great! It also works with celery and a few other vegetables.

We've tried growing squash on several occasions, but the first time a larva got into the stem and killed it, and the second time around we never got actual squash, just blooms.

The most success we've had has actually been with a ghost chile plant of all things! I brought it indoors during the winter and it's now back…

I would avoid bringing anything with me to the UAE altogether: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/7234786.s… I read that story after having visited there and I had brought some supplements along with me. Thankfully I didn't run into any problems, but who knows.

How big of a charitable donation should we be concerned about as far as an audit goes? We donated around $2000 worth of clothing, kitchenware, etc. in 2013. Turbo Tax said our chances of being audited was very low, but figured I would ask anyway.

This. Fiber is good stuff. I usually throw together a handful of frozen fruit, a handful of frozen kale, raw almonds, water and a scoop of whey and buzz it up into it's smooth. Also, people freak out if you don't use fresh produce, but there's some evidence that suggests that frozen food actually retains more…

I have 4 monitors at work. Is there any way to make Windows open up a program on the screen that your mouse is currently on? I'll be on, say, monitor 2, and want to open Windows Explorer, so I click on the Windows Explorer icon in my task bar on monitor 2, and it opens up on, say, monitor 4 instead. I realize that…

Following the above advice might work, but a lot of shops will charge you a fee just to look at your car. I've also heard horror stories about really shady mechanics actually doing things to your car while it's in their shop so that there's more to fix (like loosening a wire or something like that).

With regard to gradually waking up, I would love to have a wake up lamp, but unfortunately it isn't an option for me. I get up several hours before my wife does so that I can work out and get ready for the day. The closest thing I've found is to use an app on my phone (I use Sleep as Android, there are others…

I just eat all of them in one sitting. Problem solved.

I order a double quarter lber made like a Big Mac all the time. I never really stopped to consider that it could impact the guys at the grill though during busy times. I'll stick to only ordering this kind of stuff when it's not too busy.

I just threw some in my cup of coffee (not even a 1/4tsp). I can detect it, but it doesn't taste awful at all. For what it's worth, I'm dealing with a possible ulcer or hiatal hernia (not sure yet, seeing the doc again on Monday) and this is making the coffee bearable to drink without making my stomach burn.