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I tried this method with the crockpot over the weekend: http://crockpot365.blogspot.com/2008...

Give scraps to a dog. My mom puts hers in a kong with some peanutbutter for nightly entertainment. I think it's an improvement over the dog pre-cleaning the dishes before they're washed.

I’ve got a pretty mixed view of these gadgets. The “debate” about e-readers is a debate among really really privileged people. Would an ereader be practical in a refugee ca...

We're looking for this or something like it so we can have seltzer without the waste. I've seen several reviews for this line here, but I'd like to hear more about what other products are availabl...

They remind me of breakfast in Grenada where I saw a man drown his toast in olive oil and then pour 1/4 inch of sugar over that. I was appalled until I tasted these.

There are several in Milwaukee. Some hale and hearties at the West Allis Market said they would be coming as long as they could stand the cold. This year seems to be the year of the winter market...

My grandma always used to make them with Jello - none of this cream-of-tartar silliness. This is pretty much the recipe:

Paperwhites embody the magic of growing plants indoors - they bloom at a time when everything else is slumbering under blankets of white and gray. A few years ago I worked second shift in a r...

Yay! I'm gonna finish up my holiday shopping at the Buy Local & Alternative Gift Fair here in MKE this weekend: http...

I'm thankful for Genevieve at the West Allis Farmers Market in Milwaukee. She introduced me to a wonderful range of heirloom apples - ruined me for shite apples, but I don't care. And for the ven...

I feel so bad for Jimi Hendrix, schilling for this gimmicky randomness... They're pretty, but being able to gauge cooking temperature is a pretty basic thing, and if you need to be exact you reall...

Oh how I love "Sleepytea", as it's known in our home. Even more so because it's fairly traded. Also, staple-less teabags are more compost-friendly :) Yay!

@keltrue - try freecycle! Several people in the area gave away veg this season. I saw more zucchini than anything else though. I was just wondering if the Milwaukee craigslist would be worth che...

In college I left a bottle of farm cider in the door of the fridge for too long. Maybe it was because he had just taken a class where his final was brewing beer, but a friend decided to give it a ...

We moved into our apartment only to discover that there is exactly one drawer in the kitchen. Not somthing we were too concerned about but it was really a surprise! Upshot - our cutlery lives in ...

I am FREAKING OUT because I learned there is a source in Milwaukee for locally cured charcuterie at one of our winter markets: http://www.mcwfm.org/pr...

The best egg scrambler I know stirs and scrambles the eggs gently with a fork with garlic speared on it. I have never been able to reproduce his perfect, fluffy moist clouds.

Butchering an animal is very different from slaughtering it. Though I'm sure some people would be creepers about it, I don't think the general reaction to watching an animal die would be quite so ...

Not sure what we're doing, but I'm excited for the beef heart being served at the party we're going to!

I want to explore cooking with "unusual" meats other than the grocers' standards of beef, pork, chicken and turkey. I've had a hankerin' for rabbit for weeks now! It requires an extra trip to get...