I'd also stay with the white and black/dark grey shutters. Just choose a fun deep jeweltone color for the door, replace the shutters with appropriately-sized ones, work a bit on the landscaping, an...

I agree with everyone that says that you should keep him inside more and get on a walk schedule. I do the same with my 65 lb lab/border collie mix. She's pretty much trained to poop right when she ...

Sauté pan all the way. I use it way more often than my skillet of the same size.

I think it's actually quite common to try to cheer up old communist block architecture with bright bold colors. You see it all over eastern Germany...

Here's an amaaaazing mango, jicama, and orange fruit salad with mint and cilantro and lime. It's so so good and refreshing with Mexican food:

Like said above, just use a microplane for the ginger. You'll never dread it again! I like washing lettuce, but it seems like that makes me weird. And I totally second the statement th...

I have two of the ones from Overstock. I don't like that they are silver, but you can't see that very much once the books are on there. They are very solid and sturdy. The base is very heavy and it...

LoriSF - you might want to have a look at this post, as might anyone buying a pottery barn rug at Goodwill

This place was in the LA times in January: http://www.latimes.com/features/print...

I'm a huge fan of Stone's Arrogant Bastard, and also the Double Bastard, which are both crazy hoppy. Another I've been loving lately is Sierra Nevada's seasonal brew: the Harvest Wet Hop Ale. It is...

"Paired! Humboldt Fog Blue Cheese with Ficoco Spread" Anyway, it's delicious, whatever you want to call it!

Yep, I was about to say that, but ztuttle beat me to the punch! It's an ash layer. Not a blue cheese.

If you've got leftover collards after you cook them up (whatever way hyou choose!), they are great in a strata: -2 3/4 cups of milk -8 eggs -a couple of tablespoons of must...

How about the fact that taking a hot bath is a hugely wasteful endeavor? The energy used to heat the 20-35 gallons of water used in a bath is a waste of energy. The tub-stopper is quite poignant in...

As people have said, shelf-stable milk is very common in Europe. I find that it does taste different than fresh milk, but maybe that's because my fresh milk is from a local dairy instead of a facto...

What about just getting a washer and then hanging your clothes to dry? That's what we do. (We don't have a dryer.)

Don't you think your local dairy will miss having those bottles in their circulation? I know the deposit is only a dollar, but it might cost the dairy a bit more than that to replace the bottles th...

I wouldn't want to be the one to clean the little gap between the units...

I just moved out of university housing down the street from that bad boy! You can't see it at ALL from the road. Just a wall.

BEST SIMPLE GREEN YET.