I’ve never understood why people think they need to treat beets any differently than carrots. (Hands and cutting boards do wash, after all...) If I’m going to boil or sauté beets with onions in butter or bacon fat, I I cut off both ends (those leaf stems are crammed with dirt), peel with a vegetable peeler, and slice…

I’ve been using a free app, The Diary, to input my health data. It links with Apple’s Health app, and the user can customize the dashboard to display everything from the standards like blood pressure, heart rate, steps, weight, to others like blood glucose, body temp, oxygen saturation, respiration rate, medications…

At least you have a street address. I’m in a rural area, so although I have a rural address, that same address is used for 8 properties — on 2 different roads! If I enter the rural address into Google Maps, the results are (not surprisingly) nowhere near me. There is no postal (zip) code in a rural address, so to get…

That’s just what I was going to say — I tried a “simple creme brulée” recipe that basically said dump the egg yolks, cream, vanilla, sugar into a bag, smush it around to mix, then put it in the water bath. Came out lovely ... except for the one egg yolk that hadn’t smushed, and ended up a hard ball in the middle of…

I would love to see how a spatchcocked duck would turn out if it was first seasoned and cooked in sous vide, then deep-fried ... to make Crispy Peking Duck.  

I hate that when I turn on the flashlight, I have to choose the brightness before it comes on. I live in the country, where the only ambient light is from the moon and stars. If I’m letting the dog out for a quick pee, I need to know RIGHT NOW if that rustling in the bush is a skunk...

Seriously? “Sniffing the cork will tell you nothing” about the wine? When you order wine, ALWAYS SMELL THE CORK, and if it smells like an old, musty, moldy basement, trust me, the wine is will taste even worse. Hand the cork back to the waiter and say, “I’m sorry. This wine is corked. Please bring another bottle.”…

How do I copy a tracklist to my service of choice? (I too would rather use Google Music than Spotify!)