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this is great! squirrels have been using my windowsill plants as a rodent club med. everything that i've tried just seems to make things more fun for them. (including rigging up a pretty nifty hanging plant system which they now jump into and swing like a giant dirt hammock, crafty little buggers) i'm sure they won't hurt themselves on the plastic forks, so i am going to give this a try.

i loathe phones at the table. it feels like everyone does it incessantly. in response i have gotten super passive aggressive about it and if they whip out a cellphone, i take mine out and twiddle around with it for a good 5 minutes after the person has finished. and ignore them completely during that 5 minutes (which doesn't sound like a long time but trust me, the other person feels it! and they usually put the phone away for the rest of the meal. ha)

nuts, beans or leftovers (even pasta!)

EC - are you thinking of sunflower seeds?

i like this tip. i'm a soap as you go person, so i think this will help me to use less soap.

very nice! i especially like the mounted lights, i think that's what really pushes it over the line into awesome.

i am a terrible flower arranger so i can attest to the fact that using the same flower hides "mistakes" well. another trick is to hold the flowers in your hand like a bouquet. arrange it how you'd like it to look in the vase. then clip the bottoms (rather than doing stem by stem). also secure the stems with a string, long leaf, or rubber band. i went from terrible flower arranger to somewhat ok with those tips.

i love it! i do this all the time and call it easy eggs for a crowd. :) it definitely does puff and looks great coming straight out of the oven to your guests. they are very impressed for very little work. my kind of dish. ha.

(i do it with bacon and cheddar, sometimes broccoli too, and it is so good!)

creative tofu recipe, looks tasty!

for the pescatarians, add some shrimp to edamame dumplings. it is awesome!

not sure if you all tried this, but you absolutely have to rinse them off then boil them for a couple of minutes. it helps with the texture IMMENSELY. i tried them with a good rinse and in various preparations and thought they were gross, but after boiling them they are much more appealing. that said, they are probably most suited to asian preparations, like pad thai or stir fries and not so much in place of wheat pastas (like this would be disastrous in spaghetti with meatballs, yikes!)