I got a third degree burn from dropping a hot onion on my foot as I was straining a broth. Now I wait until they are cool before I strain them.

Libraries in Queens are having kickoff parties tommorow, with signups and prizes.

Using it to eat during my impending unpaid :( maternity leave. Yum!

Neither have I. sparkiy@earthlink.net

Embrace the squirrels! My mom tried for years to find bird feeders the squirrels couldn't get into and gave up. She got some squirrel feeders (they'll go for the easier food). S...

one of these would be so much better than the system I built out of MDF

You don't like them stale? I always buy mine a few weeks early and let them sit to get stale. I've liked them better that way since I was little.

i just forget it's on the stove, or the timer goes off and somehow it's already burned. We got a nice compact cuisenart rice cooker, and it saves me alot of scrubbing. - I hadn't seen ...

I've burned so many pots of rice that my husband bought me a rice maker. I'm no longer "allowed" to make rice on the stove.

I like the giraffe pillow

leftover spinach quiche and a really big salad

I love it for making cookies, but last night I used it to mash potatoes. (lazy me)

What about bright recycled rubber, like this: http://www.ecosurfaces.com/ecoearth/rubberfloors.htm It would still be ...

the grill pan, i could grill veggies

hot and sour

This is a great idea, my mom used to actually forget that I was on timeout. So I'd be sitting, and sitting, and sitting, etc.

so cold, need warm

me me me

onions and other veggies.

paella