I tend to keep the house cold, so I do this a lot to keep dishes warm while other dishes are finishing. I also use the oven vent (under one of the back burners) to keep finished dishes hot. Somet...
You might be able to remove the plastic case from the ugly ones and just stick the "guts" inside something else, with a little hole drilled for the button to poke through.
Great post. Bad directions are a big pet peeve of mine, and I've lived in several rural areas where Google maps will send you eight miles down a one-lane dirt road to save a half-mile over a nice ...
Pets are a problem. I guess we will just have to declare our pets to be non-participating members of our households! I have cats, and they definitely aren't going to eat less meat (cats pretty mu...
I have almost the exact same layout! Whose idea is it to put all the counterspace in an unreachable corner? Crazy! I did what an above poster suggested and plopped the microwave back there.
Milling around a fire pit, or even better, a bonfire, munching hot snacks and drinking hot drinks, is the best. But what makes it really great is if you go on a hayride first!
I also have dreams about discovering hidden rooms in old residences. That actually happened to me in my childhood home-- there was a room in the cellar that had been walled off but could be reache...
A giant cutting board is a must in a small kitchen with a double sink. Mine is big enough to almost double my available prep space. I keep it propped behind the sink because putting it away would...
We do this with rocks, acorns, buckeyes, pine cones and needles, and the occasional piece of driftwood. They bring a lot to our white-drywall, white-carpet student apartment.
I buy spices in bulk and use 1/2 pint mason jars (a globe-shaped kind) to store them. It's great, but way too bulky (I have two cabinet lazy susans double-stacked, plus more) and now I need someth...
I was also a small-town grocery store cashier, but that just makes me peek more, and feel probably a little too free to comment (nonjudgementally). When you work in a small-town grocery, you see w...
Call your friend, but keep calm. And give the house a very thorough search-- sometimes I am sure one of my indoor cats has escaped, but he turns out to be under the sink or inside the couch or in ...
My cat Lenny possesses "unusual manual dexterity." He's one of those cats who likes to eat out of his paws and drink by dipping one paw into a glass over and over. He also loves to scoot things a...
Other peoples' attitudes about animals are just no fun to deal with. That's why I shut my pets up when a lot of people come over. You never know when some jerk is going to "feel sorry for" your i...
I have something like this. It's a dowel suspended between two C-clamps on the underside of a shelf. It's handy! And because the clamps are removable, I can take it down when the wrapping is don...
I make brussels sprouts sauteed with butter and pecans for Thanksgiving nearly every year (we were never green bean casserole-lovers at my house). I make it in a big iron skillet and keep a lid on...
I love pumpernickel! My favorite is a pumpernickel pb&j (with natural peanut butter), although toasted, with a little butter and a slice of tomato, is great, too! And of course, the inestimable r...
I love, love, love porter. My mouth waters when I hear the word! It's the closest thing beer has to chocolate milk. Boulevard Brewing Company out of Kansas City makes a pretty good one, Bully! P...
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If you get really desperate, you can use pureed carrots! I can't tell carrot pie and sweet potato pie apart most of the time.
I tend to keep the house cold, so I do this a lot to keep dishes warm while other dishes are finishing. I also use the oven vent (under one of the back burners) to keep finished dishes hot. Somet...
You might be able to remove the plastic case from the ugly ones and just stick the "guts" inside something else, with a little hole drilled for the button to poke through.
Great post. Bad directions are a big pet peeve of mine, and I've lived in several rural areas where Google maps will send you eight miles down a one-lane dirt road to save a half-mile over a nice ...
Pets are a problem. I guess we will just have to declare our pets to be non-participating members of our households! I have cats, and they definitely aren't going to eat less meat (cats pretty mu...
I have almost the exact same layout! Whose idea is it to put all the counterspace in an unreachable corner? Crazy! I did what an above poster suggested and plopped the microwave back there.
Milling around a fire pit, or even better, a bonfire, munching hot snacks and drinking hot drinks, is the best. But what makes it really great is if you go on a hayride first!
I also have dreams about discovering hidden rooms in old residences. That actually happened to me in my childhood home-- there was a room in the cellar that had been walled off but could be reache...
A giant cutting board is a must in a small kitchen with a double sink. Mine is big enough to almost double my available prep space. I keep it propped behind the sink because putting it away would...
We do this with rocks, acorns, buckeyes, pine cones and needles, and the occasional piece of driftwood. They bring a lot to our white-drywall, white-carpet student apartment.
I buy spices in bulk and use 1/2 pint mason jars (a globe-shaped kind) to store them. It's great, but way too bulky (I have two cabinet lazy susans double-stacked, plus more) and now I need someth...
I was also a small-town grocery store cashier, but that just makes me peek more, and feel probably a little too free to comment (nonjudgementally). When you work in a small-town grocery, you see w...
Call your friend, but keep calm. And give the house a very thorough search-- sometimes I am sure one of my indoor cats has escaped, but he turns out to be under the sink or inside the couch or in ...
My cat Lenny possesses "unusual manual dexterity." He's one of those cats who likes to eat out of his paws and drink by dipping one paw into a glass over and over. He also loves to scoot things a...
Other peoples' attitudes about animals are just no fun to deal with. That's why I shut my pets up when a lot of people come over. You never know when some jerk is going to "feel sorry for" your i...
Lona, could you post the recipe or a link to it? It sounds great.
I have something like this. It's a dowel suspended between two C-clamps on the underside of a shelf. It's handy! And because the clamps are removable, I can take it down when the wrapping is don...
I make brussels sprouts sauteed with butter and pecans for Thanksgiving nearly every year (we were never green bean casserole-lovers at my house). I make it in a big iron skillet and keep a lid on...
I love pumpernickel! My favorite is a pumpernickel pb&j (with natural peanut butter), although toasted, with a little butter and a slice of tomato, is great, too! And of course, the inestimable r...
I love, love, love porter. My mouth waters when I hear the word! It's the closest thing beer has to chocolate milk. Boulevard Brewing Company out of Kansas City makes a pretty good one, Bully! P...