Rebecca in Hoboken's Profile

I love le Creuset! I have some of their pans from oven and stove top and they are my favorite to use.

My grandmother won a magazine's recipe contest long long ago with a cubed steak dish. She would line the bottom of a deep skillet with bacon then cover the (raw) bacon with cubed steak (cut into portions). She then layered sliced pototoes, carrots and onions on top along with a good bit of garlic and salt and pepper to taste. She would cover the pan to get the potatoes cooked through and cook for about an hour. The bacon would get crisp and stick to the bottom of the cubed steak. Probably not a particularly healthy dish but it was yummy.

I had a vita mix back in the 80s and it was fantastic. I did quite a lot of things with it, including grinding up wheatberries and making bread dough from the whole wheat they produced. I made my own orange juice concentrate from organic oranges with part of the rind. It's long gone and I can't afford a new one. I really would love to win this one (as I know many others here would too).

Love, love, love your home Jay!!!
About having a big dog in a city (Hoboken) apartment, I planned to leave my beloved golden retriever in Florida with my ex-husband believing that he was better in the suburbs. The ex changed his mind at the last minute and I brought my (our) dog with me to my new much smaller apartment. I found that she was extremely happy in the city with it's parks and dog runs and long walks on the sidewalks. She liked to be with me, not at home, and I could take her out when I walked around town to do my shopping and errands. She could even sit by me (on the other side of the fence often but still next to me) while I dined outside in the towns many restaurants with outdoor seating. (Most would bring her water without my asking.) Her inside home was much smaller but her outside world was a lot bigger than before.

Gorgeous home with beautiful furnishings! I am totally in love with your home. (And very jealous!) You have incredible taste.

I remember Todd Oldham's old design show on MTV. He would show you how to reupholster a chair (or something) you bought at a flea market and other such projects to decorate your place yourself. It was inspiring and his taste was refreshing. I've been a fan ever since.

I need to make curtains for my apartment's back window. My grandmother made her own curtains, many different types, and I'm hoping her spirit can inspire me to do something in that space. (Not that I could approach her talent.) I also have a pineapple design quilt pattern I'm dying to try.

Salt and pepper, then cook (with a little oil) on a very, very hot cast iron pan. A lump of butter on top after it's cooked to rare and let it sit for several minutes.

I would use it to sweep up cat hair and the bits of litter that they track throughout my apartment for starters.

I really want to go to this. My apartment needs redoing badly and I need ideas.