I have been concerned with the health effects of artificially solid fats for 20 years. Crisco is NOT transfat free if it contains hydrogenated oils. I use butter. Never used shortening. I ...

Now that is exactly the sort of think I would expect to be sold at a high-end art store in Alaska.

I had a Danby countertop dishwasher. It took up exactly half of the countertop in my NYC kitchen. I was very happy with it. No problems for 3 years. I only let it go because I moved into a...

cherries, blueberries & strawberries in the freezer. half gallon mason jar of maraschino sour cherries. currently fermenting 4 pounds of kirby cucumbers and planning to roast and can 10 pounds of...

just started my first batch of fermented pickles. gallon glass jar, drilled a hole in the cap and stuck an airlock in it to keep any nastyness out. filled it with 4 pounds of kirbies, ...

oh, I made it with a bottom crust and the cut our circle top. it's just not a pie otherwise. it's a crisp. :) maybe Bittman has been spying the pictures on my fb profile.

I did this three weeks ago! I was making a blueberry peach pie. I wanted the filling to peek through, but I weaving lattice tops is a lot of work. I was thinking of the pies topped w...

I tried making my own last year with Bazzini's roasted hazelnut butter. I mixed it up to taste, no measurements. I found it wasn't chocolately enough just using melted chocolate, so I also added ...

I received that nasty "snot" egg separator as a joke gift one year. Not only hideous, but stomach turning!

what is "appropriately deep"? Some measurement of depth would be quite helpful.

I went a little crazy at the City Hall Park Greenmarket this morning... 8 peaches, 2 quarts of sour cherries, and 4 pints of blueberries. I think I need to make pie. or peach blueberry...

on an impulse I bought three quart baskets of sour cherries. should I bake all day sunday, or should I pit and freeze for later in the season?

I wouldn't use painted jars for canning at all. Even if you paint the outside, the boiling water bath may wreck the paint.

Although I love the idea of a large variety of colors, the 2 and 3 mm felt greendressgirl provided a link for is too thin for this application. 12 or 13 mm is what you want if you are shopp...

I would use a taller bottle and alter the shape of the back (part with the hole in it) so that it can be mounted under the wall plate. Then you don't have to hang it from the charging adapter/plug.

Not a 'family heirloom', but I treasure its usefulness: my grandmother's serger (a special sort of sewing machine).

Thanks for the inspiration. I needed entryway shoe storage. I bought the nyland from Ikea (3 doors tall, made of pine, not MDF), sanded the finish off and coated it in no VOC primer.

Oops. There are two hanging plants in that last photo. I forgot to include that I wasn't contradicting Lizzy C identification of the lower hanging plant. The lower one is a String o...

the hanging plant in the last photo is not a wandering jew. It's called String of Hearts. It's got plump dark green heart shaped leaves, with dusky purple undersides. one of my...