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Diane Morgan ROCKS! Any recipe that this woman writes is brilliant!

BAKING SODA, BANANA PEELS, BABY OIL, AND BEYOND, the upcoming book from Reader's Digest--a very cool, very Blueprint(y) type of thing and a clear indication that they're seriously modernizing up th...

dear god, what perfect timing. Haggis was a Buddha cat, until he got tormented by Vontz. Gilly (the dog) hates all the cats, but particularly cannot understand why Haggis, who is now annoyed at eve...

Odd, but it makes sense, so long as the dryer is on cool. I prefer the Waters method: remove chicken from plastic, salt and pepper inside and out, stuff with tarragon (under skin as well), p...

Near about 200 at last count---enough to warrent the building of floor-to-ceiling bookcase in my livingroom; I have a stack in the kitchen; about 75 in my home office; a 'special books' shelf in my...

I've been grilling all year....and I live in CT!

Holy mother of god.

I just bought what was clearly the older version of this slow cooker at Target, specifically because I wanted to be able to brown in the crock. I have a Viking gas range, so my medium is like most ...

What you've got there is the old Melitta ceramic drip--it's actually the upper half of the Melitta ceramic drip pot: you plunk this down on top of the (very beautiful, very classic) pot, put the fi...

I was the bookbuyer at the original Dean & Deluca and one day picked up a sample copy of Home Cooking; I laughed all the way from 93rd Street down to Prince Street. My favorite story: her getting "...

The Gentlemen's Companion, circa 1938, Crown. Amazing. Rule Britannia and all that.

Actually, one of the most serious questions I can think of off the bat is, What is the kettle lined with? If it's ancient and it's lined with tin (as many if not most old copper pots are), the key ...

actually, this was a cover recipe from Gourmet a few years ago.....

Great new book coming out called BAKING SODA, BABY OIL, BANANA PEELS, AND BEYOND---all about using all natural stuff like this to replace the chemicals that have infiltrated our lives. The book is ...

What's at farmer's markets in New England right now...? Bupkus. I so want to live in SF.

Gorgeous! Nice book, too!

Mallomars. If you drop them in the tub, they actually float.

Anybody give any thought to using evaporated milk..?

Carrots, turnips, Lacinata kale, red beets, orange beets, yellow beets, mustard greens, garlic, shallots, still-green tomatoes (thanks, climate change), parsnips, Bright Lights chard, Delicata squa...

from Apartment Therapy - Open Thread #117 on October 19, 2007 04:33PM