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I have a $25 Mr. Coffee grinder that has a removable plastic chamber -- I just remove it to dump the grounds into the basket, and then I ...

I'd like to try this with Traditional Medicinals Throat Coat tea. I've found it to be a very effective remedy (although I can't discount the placebo effect in that.) Traditional Med...

My stepmother makes big batches of her fresh basil pesto recipe (which you could do with any pesto recipe, I expect), and then forms them into one-batch patties and freezes them in freezer bags. A...

This sounds wonderful. I grew up loving the Little House books, and used to make maple syrup taffy in the backyard when I was about 6. (My dad would just send me out with a thermos of hot ...

Ha. "How could anyone get lost in Venice." Yeah, you get there eventually, it just takes three hours of looping back through seemingly identical squares. I just had to stop and comme...

This will round out my collection perfectly. Want to come down to my basement to see it?

I don't know what's wrong with you heathens, but I totally need two different forks to eat my cheese and crackers.

In Austria, there are black ones all over all the plexi-glass sound walls along the train routes and highways. They look a lot like

Re: the tip about putting your sponges in the dishwasher, I might add that according to a recent study, microwaving a soaking-wet sponge for about two minutes kills over 90% of the bacteria and vir...

I've done this -- my parents bought me this penguin loofah scrubber for Christmas. Works great, and it's ...

With paper covered in paint, etc., there's not much I can tell you. However, in removing just one layer of wallpaper, without all the complications, I've had good experiences with a wallpaper scor...

I hope this is the right place to share this; I just finished off the leftovers from the batch of Hungarian Mushroom Soup I made last night, and I love it so much, I thought I should share it for s...

from Apartment Therapy The Kitchn | Open Thread 195 on February 21, 2009 06:45PM

Well, to be fair, I think the point is more that you can do this improvised mat for underneath, instead of the much more expensive mats with lips that they showed in the other posts about the idea.

Has no one else noticed that it is "Sugar Daddy?" Heehee.

I sent mine out a week ago, but I haven't gotten any yet. It's a bit demoralizing. :(

I can testify that Cutco knives are seriously, frighteningly sharp. I don't own them myself, but my best friend's parents have a set, and most of the stories behind the scars on the family's hands...

I don't know about bread, but this reminds me of Apple Cheddar Scones .

Thanks so much for all these great suggestions, everyone! You all more than answered my question.

Especially when I'm a first-time guest somewhere, I've always really appreciated it when my hosts included practical information on the grand tour -- here's where to find the water glasses, this is...

I'd recommend Arnold Natural Health Nut Bread . It's not as fancy as what the others have mentioned, but I think it's quite goo...