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@Renai Marie, I do the same thing! I offer my naughtiest cat something I know he hates like fresh lemon or, worse, a sniff of my vodka drink. Oh boy, does that send him running for cover!

This looks lovely! I think I will do this with the leftover rinds from my pomegranate pound cake. I think these would look great at my Christmas party next Saturday!

I absolutely love this house! I lived in a South Philly row house for several years, and always love to see how people work with and decorate the lovely narrow houses there. I think what I like mos...

I get up in the morning before work (I work at home) and do my marketing first thing in the morning. I buy whatever produce looks good at the market and drop by the butcher for chicken or beef or l...

I would really love to see traditional Christmas recipes using ingredients that don't come pre-prepared or in a box. I live overseas and am having a really hard time finding recipes for things like...

Aargh! I live in Turkey, where there is no brown sugar, and I was STOKED to see this post UNTIL I realised that we don't have molasses here either! Grrr....

@yiyehtov: I live in Turkey, where there are two Ikeas in Istanbul and one in Izmir (there are others elsewhere too). Ikea here isn't nearly as inexpensive as in the US, and I chalk it up to presti...

@aleec, no, a Hoosier cabinet is not the same as a dry sink. A dry sink is a colonial American invention people put in bedrooms with a water pitcher and a bowl so they could wash their hands or fac...

This is why living in Turkey is so nice. Walk down any side street and you can pay 1 TL (or about 65 cents) for a cup of orange juice that is made from about 4-6 oranges. It's such a treat!

I made this yesterday for my husband and I for lunch and it was wonderful! The pictures above must have been taken before the cheese was put in the oven, because my feta cheese -- or beyaz peynir, ...

Hey, how come my chocolate chip cookies never look like the ones in this picture? Anybody have a good recipe that will produce cookies that look as good as those?

Wow! These are all great ideas! Now, if only the sun will stay out for more than 30 minutes this weekend, I can get to work! I love the idea of roll-down curtains that I can lower and draw up when ...