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Has anyone made this? I have. I used extra-lean ground beef, carrots, celery and corn, red but not green pepper, chili powder, cumin, oregano and a good amount of ground chilies, red wine and beef broth.
Boring and very, very soupy. Ended up tripling the chili powder and adding more garlic. Simmered, uncovered, for two hours--still much too soupy. Had to thicken with cornstarch.

Perfectly good fruit as a cleaner? What's next--asparagus for your Limoges? This, I might add, from a "Reader Intelligence Report". Oh -- Ilovekefir: please let us all know how to tell if we're going to like a post or not without reading it. Furthermore, no negative comments is like, well, pretty darn close to censorship, don't you think?

The track lighting is a great improvement, and clearly an easy project. I love the pot rack AND the obviously much-used pots and pans: it's a working kitchen, not a display room.

I too bought this bed when I moved a few months ago--new apartment, new, better bed. Wrong. HOT HOT HOT. Okay, I do prefer a coolish bed, but I was told, practically promised, that this model would not feel hot like the other memory foam mattresses--it breathes, it has moisture wicking properties. Well, mine certainly didn't. I tried sleeping on this bed with the A/C on full blast and after about an hour I was sweating, with a room temperature of under 20 Celsius. Moved to the couch until the bed was removed and replaced with a nice Posturepedic.

Good find at $47. each? No way. I'm in Montreal and most stores don't supply bags (plastic or paper) for free anymore, so how would I get all those paper bags we're supposed to be doing without? I have a neat, city-supplied divided plastic bin. All it needs is a wash now and then. That's a good, responsible find.

Looks like a jail cell -- brrr -- I need another blanket.

I've lived in a 1920's apartment building for over 27 years. The rooms are spacious, but the kitchen is small and has six narrow cupoards. I installed a large pegboard on the wall facing the kitchen entrance; that's where all of my mismatched pots and pans live. Don't know what I would do without it!