Read! (Usually nothing cooking related, just whatever book I have going). I do also try to clean as I go too, but my first thought it always to pick up a book.

We have planted quite a bit of squash in our little city garden (butternut, zucchini, yellow summer squash, and cymlings). My advice to you in to cut off the ends of the vines. That way they won't ...

@ilovermont I use bay leaves in my containers with rice and it's never affected the taste.

Herbs only so far. But there are tiny tomatoes on our tomato plants, so I think those will be our first vegetables from the garden.

We were in a similar situation, for a much shorter period of time earlier this year while our kitchen floor was being replaced. Two things that we made in our toaster oven were tuna melts (part of ...

I could (and do) live without a microwave, but I don't think I'd want to go ovenless, so that's the trade-off I'd make. I'm not really much of a baker, but in the winter we make a lot of casseroles...

The Worchestershire sauce in my cabinet gets used most often for this homemade onion dip . Yum!

I also find that very cold/slightly frozen meat is the easiest to trim the fat off of. I don't cook beef very often, but when I do I usually put it in the freezer for 30-60 minutes beforehand to ch...