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I think the white cabinet is really awkward but understand that you need it for storage. Could you hang it or something like it horizontally on the wall? It would have to be a little high so that anyone sitting on the end bench wouldn't hit it.

Or can you store that stuff underneath your benches? I think moving the cabinet and getting smaller, simpler chairs would help a lot.

In Chicago, Tao Ran Ju in the Chinatown Square Mall has soup dumplings. Only place I've been to that serves them and they are awesome!

I am surprised at how much this does NOT work for me. Individual elements are nice, but they don't work together. In fact, I found the use of gray and green together to be somewhat unattractive here.

The bathroom is great. But I agree with others that the couch and chair are kind of "fake" looking so it gives the living room an unreal feel to it. At first glance, I thought it was a doll or play house.

Is this an ad or editorial? Either way, it's too foo foo for me.

@jlmcnamara: My grandmother used the first knuckle method for white rice. She used her middle finger, and that does seem to work for us. Of course, my grandmother would have never made brown rice...

However, I am surprised it works for you with brown rice. I use short grain rice, but use a lot more water than for the white.

I think the question is not whether eggs are considered meat, but what foods are given up during Lent. For some people it is red meat, fish is OK. Others give up all animal products, which would include eggs and dairy.

Eggs are not considered meat because they aren't animal flesh. There isn't any debate about that.

Wow--that's some change.

Very nice.

TCS is the only place I will buy comforters, and it's been that way for years. We have purchased jersey and flannel sheets from them, as well as duvet covers, pillows and a rug. All their stuff has been fine.

More recently I have had shipping problems with them. A couple of things I have just given up on and cancelled the order. So they aren't perfect, but they are pretty darn good.

I'd give my eye teeth just to have the before pic.