This is a nice summer-time house, but during the long Milwaukee winters I'd need more rugs, more blankets and much less gray! Don't your feet get cold? The bedrooms make me feel chilly just looking...

Scoop, feel free to mix cooked and raw chicken bones in stock. I find having just a bit of raw chicken (necks, backs, wingtips etc) in the pot makes the stock fresher tasting. I stow...

You want the lid to fit, and you want to love it. I doubt it will have to be le creuset for this to be the case. That said, I got a Le Creuset for Christmas and it became my favorit...

Oatmeal raisin muffins with toasted pecans from: http://www.crumblycookie.net/2010/01/31/oatmeal-raisin-muffins/ Just ...

I experiment a lot, and I do a fair amount of creative reuse. A tough and boring celery root salad got rinsed off in a colander and the celery root tossed into a pot of beef stew. A boring and un...

Nigella's butterflied chicken, marinated with lots of lemon and rosemary. I like the chicken in milk, but this is better. I'm not in love with Nigella's other books, but all of the ...

I have really similar lamps, in exactly this color. Mine belonged to my grandparents for at least 30 years before they came to me, and they don't have brand label left on them. But given that, I'...

Does anyone have a good source for old-fashioned coffee cans? For this purpose, but also for making Boston Brown Bread, now that all coffee comes in foil bags or plastics?

To repeat most of the above: love the brick, totally in keeping for the period. Warmish brownish paint and a pop-of-color door. Don't neglect to paint the garage door the wood color so it blends ...

I love ordering loose tea from a good importer (Upton Tea is my current favorite) and on really indulgent mornings I make a pot, put milk in a little jug, use the pretty cup and saucer and set it a...

I don't like having a mattress direct on the floor. Oddly enough, I don't currently mind having my mattress on a boxspring and the boxspring on the floor. My quilt comes to the ground and hides t...

Tomorrow is cook-for-the-week day. 1. Some kind of potato gratin, probably with turnip in it. 2. a recipe for chicken cooked with cranberries which I'll probably try out in my crockpo...

I'm with thorndale. Love the room - your even taste overcomes my dislike of pink and fuzzy rugs - but I don't love the diagonal bed. The yellow table and the curvy chair are fantastic.

I love brass/bronze/copper always have. I stand to inherit some camels like that, love the brass bed and want the Anthro table for my very own. But my house is filled with warm colors - red, sage,...

My building has a washers/dryers in the basement. But at 1.75 in quarters a pop, I heavily ration my use of the dryer. I used to do more hand wash when there wasn't a washer in my building, but t...

I shop once a week, and buy what I need for one or two big things - like a casserole and a pot of soup, plus maybe a salad - that I can make on the weekends, pack for lunch and reheat when I'm tire...

I like how the antique/vintage case goods can warm up the rather sterile rooms (see #5) But what struck me about most of the others is that a gorgeous old piece can make the rest of the stuff look...

What kind of sofa is that? I know its craigslist (and many congrats on the find!), but who made it originally? It's perfect.

I'm heading south to visit my boyfriend, and we're going to his mom's; it will just be the three of us, I think, which will be nice and peaceful. The only tradition I insist upon is my gre...

I like these, and I use them, but the bristles wear out about twice as fast as regular drug store toothbrushes. I've been wondering if it's better to use TWO recycled toothbrushes or one ordinary ...