I'm curious if you read to the end of the Omnivore's Dilemma ? Because I really didn't see that book as necessarily advocating a meatless diet, so much as a thoughtful one, and the final chap...

More: slippers and long-johns. I always wear both at home, and have a lot of large-ish felted hand-knit slippers (basically an oversize ankle sock knit in all-wool bulky yarn and then felted in the...

I reuse wine bottles (with labels removed) for this, with wine toppers to seal, generally. I'm generally removing labels to get wine bottles for bottling wine, so it makes sense to just use ones ly...

For Canada: background of snow, pour maple syrup on to produce outline of a maple leaf (an old fashioned method of making maple candy), and fill the leaf with Red River variety Raspberries. (Saskat...

Bravas sauce from farmer's market tomatoes. Blueberry jam. Thai-style shredded pickled carrots. Hoping to do a batch of tomatillo salsa once my garden has produced enough tomatillos.

I wouldn't buy everything there, but they fill a very specific need for small items that work in weird spaces that other furniture retailers don't do well. (Also, as a clutzy person wh...

I make chicken stock in the slow-cooker the day after a roast chicken. Just remove any meat to save for other purposes, put carcass in the slow cooker with an onion and a bit of rosemary, fill with...

These are really cool. However, one should check with their municipality before buying. My city, for example, required that all fire pits have a grill, so these unfortunately wouldn't pass code.

I'm curious what the ground cover is in the first and second photos. I've been looking for alternatives to my (weedy) lawn, but so far haven't been able to identify any good alternative ground cove...

I have to second what labchick is saying, here. In my city, we have the option of leaving depositable bottles out with our recycling (for either the waste-management company contracted by the city ...

During the day, my cats like to sleep on some old fleece blankets near the windows. At night, however, they like to sleep on me! :)

Honeysuckle pieces. Also not free, but it has catnip-like qualities. Also shoelaces of any kind. Basically anything on a string that you can drag across the floor reeeaaaaalllly sloooo...

And, of course, you'd feel even worse if you accidently stepped on the polar bear!

That is, however, a very small drying rack. I have somethig similar to this , along with some clothespins to minimize ha...

I think it's charming, actually. (P.S. - Your survey thing still insists I'm not logged in when I am. This happens to me on both Firefox and IE.)

I actually have the very bread machine in your photograph! We got it when my partner's grandmother moved into a smaller space and was de-stashing. I use it almost exclusively on the do...

Only salad-making is taking place in the kitchen. Everything else is happening out at the back-yard fire pit: brats cooked on sticks, transferred into a toasted bun and dressed with sauerkraut and ...

I often cook with whole wheat, but find it's availability inconsistent in grocery stores in my area, so not always. It does taste different, to be sure - I find mostly that it's far more filling th...

Like laetitiae, I have cats wanting their morning feeding. In the winter, they respond to my alarm clock (simple beeping contraption) between 5:30 and 6:00. Now that it's summer and the sun wakes t...

I used this product but I wasn't very impressed. I wanted to re-use the bags, but it was impossible to clean them out properly after using them, so they are effectively single-use items. After usin...