CiudadDuerpo's Profile

I'm the one with the dull knives (well, compared to my parents')! My dad is an amazing cook, and when I lived down the street from them, I used to bring my knives over every once in a while for him to sharpen.

My boyfriend's dad has the worst knife set though! When we go stay with him (and especially trying to cook on Thanksgiving) I will occasionally bring my own cooking tools since he has so few tools. He does most of his own cooking too! Guess it works for him, but it would drive me crazy to use dull knives and not have the convenience amenities (like electric mixers or casserole dishes) to cook with!

Learning how to make monkey bread was the only redeeming quality of me taking foods class in middle school. It's so good!

From another Midwesterner in SoCal, I am shocked that a young guy has a home like this! You should see what most 20-something guys houses look like....

I love how natural it is. It looks lived in too, but not a sloppy way. It also doesn't look like he is a millionaire like some of the places on here. Oh, and he's also pretty cute! :)

You can start out pretty easily if you're a beginner at cooking meat. Honestly, get a George Foreman grill. It's not a bad way to cook chicken or burgers. It's great for making grilled chicken for salads or sandwiches.

After that you might move on to something where you could bake or broil the chicken recipes. Things like chicken enchiladas, chicken salad, etc. Once you feel comfortable with the process of cooking the meat, you can move on to more challenging methods.

I still find it much harder to cook with red meats than poultry. It can be difficult to know the difference between just right and overdone. Just remember, fish cooks much more quickly than poultry! My best advice would be to get a good cookbook, honestly.

I think the cooking time on this is off. I have a usually hot, gas stove, and I've had this 3.5 lb. chicken in there for an hour now, and the thighs are still bloody and pink on the inside. I think it's going to need significantly more time. It's so frustrating when recipes are inaccurate.

It looks good though, and the video on how to butterfly a chicken was quite handy.

The Frank's Red Hot buffalo chicken dip is awesome, but you have to be really careful you don't eat too much or, umm...well nevermind...

Also, I was disappointed that the dip in the picture wasn't one of the featured recipes. It looks good!

How cool! Wish I could afford original artwork like this! I get to see a lot of amazing original artwork through my job, but most of the time, it's out of my price range.

Btw, those dolls and their heads are seriously creepy!

Ohhh, reading through I had to add my experience with carpet in an apartment I lived in. I have a cat, and I paid an extra deposit to have it there, and I also paid an extra $50 a month for pet rent. I left the apartment cleaner than when I moved in. Up until that point (and since then) I've gotten most of my deposits back.

However, this was the first time I'd ever lived in a big managed corporate complex. They kept my deposit of one month's rent, my pet deposit and they charged me $800 on top of that...all for the carpet. So apparently this crappy beige carpet covering 800 sq. feet is $1,600? They said it was for "pet damage", but my pet never did anything to it. She's declawed!

Anyway, I unfortunately ended up paying it because they kept hounding me for the money and threatened to sue and I was moving out of state or else I would've fought it. What a nightmare!

Yes, and no. I've toured really nasty apartments (in college), one where the guy couldn't be bothered to even get out of bed or hide his bong when we came through (didn't rent that one!)

However, after my ex-boyfriend (who I was living with) and I broke up, I found a new place and he lived at our place until the lease ended. The place was trashed during the time he lived there by himself, and even though it was a really cool looking apartment in a historic building, it probably looked awful to whomever toured it.

You have to take these things with a grain of salt. Look at the space, the condition of it, the other tenants. Not the stuff of someone else that won't be there when you move in.

My parents moved my last year of college. My brother was still living at home at the time, so he has "his" room there, but I don't. I moved out of state about two years after they moved, so now when I come and visit I always stay in the same room. I like the new house. It took a while to grow on me, but my parents live only a few miles from where I grew up and the new house is much nicer. I still drive through the old neighborhood when I'm in town, and it's changed even in the five years since they moved. It was weird at first though, I'm not going to lie.