When I got married 15 years ago, at my mother's insistance, I registered for fine china. I wanted the blue willow pattern for my dishes and had intended to just register for the Johnson brothers pa...
Lately I've tried multiple recipes from Vegan Cookies Take Over Your Cookie Jar and they've all been so good. Even my non-vegan friends at work can't stop talking about how good they are. I especia...
Normally I'd say, yes, skip the faux sausage, especially if you're talking one of the super fake highly processed soy kind. But Field Roast Grain sausages are awesome. They taste so good. My husban...
I normally would hate to recommend anything even vaguely beige, but in this instance, I think I'd lean towards a wheat-y golden color, almost, but not quite beige. The golden beige in this color pa...
I only have a few very small, narrow drawers in my kitchen, so I keep my silverware in a tupperware type bin on a shelf in one of the cabinets. It's all kind of jumbled together, but since there ar...
Don't assume that just because it's cold and snowy outside, that you can't keep cycling. While it's relatively easy for me to do so in Chicago, it can be done almost anywhere. According to my ex-Al...
On my counter right now- the blender, which I use for green smoothies every morning. The cutting board, propped up against the wall. The toaster oven, also used every day. A bowl with fruit in it. ...
According to the website, the blades of those knifes are a non stick resin coating. Could one even sharpen the knife with such a coating? I'd never own a knife I couldn't even sharpen.
I don't even own a ladle. Actually, most of the kitchen stuff I don't use got ditched the last time we moved, but come to think of it, I've never owned a ladle. I think mostly because I've never bo...
I loved the Expedit we had in our previous place. We used it like a room divider, like in the last picture. The best thing about it was that the shelves are deep enough we could put books on both s...
The house I grew up in was on a corner lot, so a corner unit/lot seems preferable to me. You can't beat it for extra light and ventilation.
In my current building, the corner units a...
I love my sectional from Room and Board. It's not a huge one. It's two small sections- one piece that's about the size of a love seat, one that's a chaise. Maybe it's a tiny bit big for the room. T...
The deck/porch collapsing and killing a lot of people at a party wasn't just an episode of ER. It actually happened here in Chicago some years back.
The house I grew up in had this wo...
But using a dock, with a full keyboard and large screen kind of takes away the point of replacing a desktop with a laptop. You need a place to keep that large screen and full size keyboard, somepl...
My parent's have this and while it's convenient and yes, quite silent, it seems to break an awful lot. Like three, four times in a year. My regular old, I don't even remember the brand, dishwasher ...
I have the cherry desk that I loved when it was in my grandparent's house when I was a little girl, then when it was in my parent's house while I was a teenager. Even though it doesn't quite mesh w...
No need to even get a special microwave popper.
I use a big glass bowl. About a tablespoon or so of coconut oil, maybe a bit less. About a quarter cup of popcorn, maybe a bit more. Co...
I've put together an Expidit bookcase, one of the big 5 by 5 ones, together with minimal cursing. I did end up marring the surface of the thick side pieces because I ended up needing to hammer it i...
My family grew and froze a lot of sweet corn for the winter when I was young. Consequently, I ended up cutting a lot of corn kernels off the ears. My family had one of these gadgets as well as one ...
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When I got married 15 years ago, at my mother's insistance, I registered for fine china. I wanted the blue willow pattern for my dishes and had intended to just register for the Johnson brothers pa...
Lately I've tried multiple recipes from Vegan Cookies Take Over Your Cookie Jar and they've all been so good. Even my non-vegan friends at work can't stop talking about how good they are. I especia...
Normally I'd say, yes, skip the faux sausage, especially if you're talking one of the super fake highly processed soy kind. But Field Roast Grain sausages are awesome. They taste so good. My husban...
I normally would hate to recommend anything even vaguely beige, but in this instance, I think I'd lean towards a wheat-y golden color, almost, but not quite beige. The golden beige in this color pa...
I only have a few very small, narrow drawers in my kitchen, so I keep my silverware in a tupperware type bin on a shelf in one of the cabinets. It's all kind of jumbled together, but since there ar...
Don't assume that just because it's cold and snowy outside, that you can't keep cycling. While it's relatively easy for me to do so in Chicago, it can be done almost anywhere. According to my ex-Al...
I grew up in Indiana and never had cheese with apple pie. Now I'm mostly vegan and don't eat cheese, so I'll give this one a miss.
On my counter right now- the blender, which I use for green smoothies every morning. The cutting board, propped up against the wall. The toaster oven, also used every day. A bowl with fruit in it. ...
According to the website, the blades of those knifes are a non stick resin coating. Could one even sharpen the knife with such a coating? I'd never own a knife I couldn't even sharpen.
I don't even own a ladle. Actually, most of the kitchen stuff I don't use got ditched the last time we moved, but come to think of it, I've never owned a ladle. I think mostly because I've never bo...
I loved the Expedit we had in our previous place. We used it like a room divider, like in the last picture. The best thing about it was that the shelves are deep enough we could put books on both s...
The house I grew up in was on a corner lot, so a corner unit/lot seems preferable to me. You can't beat it for extra light and ventilation. In my current building, the corner units a...
I love my sectional from Room and Board. It's not a huge one. It's two small sections- one piece that's about the size of a love seat, one that's a chaise. Maybe it's a tiny bit big for the room. T...
The deck/porch collapsing and killing a lot of people at a party wasn't just an episode of ER. It actually happened here in Chicago some years back. The house I grew up in had this wo...
But using a dock, with a full keyboard and large screen kind of takes away the point of replacing a desktop with a laptop. You need a place to keep that large screen and full size keyboard, somepl...
My parent's have this and while it's convenient and yes, quite silent, it seems to break an awful lot. Like three, four times in a year. My regular old, I don't even remember the brand, dishwasher ...
I have the cherry desk that I loved when it was in my grandparent's house when I was a little girl, then when it was in my parent's house while I was a teenager. Even though it doesn't quite mesh w...
No need to even get a special microwave popper. I use a big glass bowl. About a tablespoon or so of coconut oil, maybe a bit less. About a quarter cup of popcorn, maybe a bit more. Co...
I've put together an Expidit bookcase, one of the big 5 by 5 ones, together with minimal cursing. I did end up marring the surface of the thick side pieces because I ended up needing to hammer it i...
My family grew and froze a lot of sweet corn for the winter when I was young. Consequently, I ended up cutting a lot of corn kernels off the ears. My family had one of these gadgets as well as one ...