I'm okay with it since I've not yet bought a roasting pan and the Flying Chicken attachment is removable. If it works and enhances my Chicken Roasting Abilities, great. If it doesn't, then I'll j...

My daughter has some seriously (disgusting) pack rat habits. I go through her room on an every two weeks rotation and I'm still appalled by the sheer volume of stuff that has accumulated.

Oh and Lori, you flavor the water *after* you gas it up. Otherwise, major mess.

Ah, but you have to pay haz-mat shipping if you get them online so that negates the savings. We have a Penguin and *love* it. In fact, we gave one my in-laws. As for ...

I second the recommendation to get good pans if you don't already have some. I have some All Clad (you can get great deals of seconds online). I have an old professional range and I s...

The only whole wheat pasta we like is Gia Russa. It must be good because I don't get the normal "ewwww, whole wheat paaasta..." thing from the family. I agree that some things are jus...

Hmmm, my experience with these hasn't been good. In my apartment, despite proper curing, my precious framed postcards from my great-grandparents' honeymoon to Brussels came crashing to the slate f...

You should never cook with hot water that doesn't come from a filtered source. Hot water can introduce all sorts of yucky things into your food. Then again, I live in 100 year old house and good...

Have you tried a color match from a full spectrum paint company? There are several, and as my living room is painted with full spectrum I understand why you don't want to give up its subtle qualities.

By far, my favorite Mardi Gras throw...right up there with "carnival crystal" (a.k.a plastic krewe cups). I was at an outdoor cooking class and a fellow classmate offered me his spar...

This is a good reminder to me to think things through before planting food stuffs in my backyard. New Orleans is lousy with lead contamination. Your yard is lovely.

Maybe I'm just not feeling how Apple can be remotely comfortable in that space. Since it's *Apple's Room* you'd think it would be a space that would be reflective of Apple's needs and desires. Ca...

We're in the process of buying a corner store in New Orleans and the first thing the architect said to me when he got out of his car was "imagine the crawfish boils you're going to have on this sid...

Okay, in the final analysis, I found all the seeds rather off-putting; however, my 9 year old can't get over the cool factor of a hot pink cake. For me, it was just meh...and the frosting was a ta...

We baked one today; however, the cooking time for us was significantly more than 30 minutes.

You can make a very delicious chicken or vegetable stock in a crockpot overnight. I do buy my beef and veal stocks at my locally owned gourmet shop.

I thought the same thing about the "green worms." When I was a girl I once found one inside a Brussels sprout and was terrorized for years about eating both Brussels sprouts and worms.

My 9 year old *still* loves this book. We take cooking classes at our local kitchen shop.

"It Came From the Pantry" is a favorite event around here - and more than saving money, it also trained me to know what is "worth it" in a pantry and what we'll never use. I was able to go 3 weeks...

jakelegs, I got most of my IKEA stuff prior to my move to NOLA; however while living in the French Quarter I ordered directly via phone and had my items shipped. It's spendy, so I'd only do it wit...