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I'm really late to the party here, but i feel everyone's pain. I accidentally over filled the water in the heater. (I live in a building my dad owns so I have to make sure things like this are cared for) It's oil powered steam heat converted from an old coal furnace. The one radiator in my living room doesn't even work and we have no way to figure out why. Anyway I over-filled the water in the steam heater and now it's like somebody is BANGING against the radiators with tire irons. Add to that the creepy steam powered tea kettle whistle and subtract sleep and you have my life for the past few days.

I LOOOOVE the green kind. yum yum!

I'm SOOOO happy to see this!!! I love RTM. Basset's is one of my number one favorite places in the city, and the cannoli place in there is hard to beat.

I purchased my pastry blender for one reason, and now I use it for two. A) GUACAMOLE! I have yet to find a way to get the guac to that perfect consistency without using one. B) Egg Salad, chops up all the eggs with out all the work and mess of other methods.

My guac is a huge hit at parties so I make it pretty frequently, therefore a pastry blender is one item that I CANNOT live without. I even took it with me when I lived in the dorms.

they've used these for years in industrial and retail work settings. I worked at lowe's and really never noticed standing for 8-10 hours even in crappy old shoes. (I certainly was not going to wear my best for my job where ANYTHING could get spilled on them at any moment) I'd probably buy one in a heartbeat!

And in my mind they really aren't that ugly, if you are worried about it, you could get an oversized rug to cover it up!

I made those popovers last night using a mini muffin pan, they turned out great!! my parents and I gobbled them all up. (we eventually reverted to putting scharffen berger tasting squares inside...how delicious!!)

I always look. I don't just look, I secretly judge people based on the contents of their cart. I then attempt to make witty, mean or humorous comments to the checkout person based on what the person before me purchased.

I hope other people look at my cart, I feel that they may be perplexed by the strange combination of things I purchase.

my favorite part of this offer is that the old lights don't even have to work! If you're going to need new ones anyway why not bring in the busted up old ones?

For me, most of the time, I live by my mom's (apparent) rule of thumb...If I haven't asked you to be in the kitchen, get out. Luckily, both in her place and mine the dining room is semi attached. Enough so that guests can feel more than welcome to sit at the table to chat. I don't mind this too much and can pretty well pay more attention to the food.

As for how to clear the kitchen? I've always found a general "everybody out!" work's pretty well, maybe not the most civilized but when you've got 11 italian aunts and uncles some of that civilized pretention goes out the window!

Mom has even been known to set up "Do not cross" ropes to the kitchen on major holidays. Now that we're older there are a lot of little things she actually wants help with, and her old school way of mixing...most things....by HAND requires us to be close if there is a spice needed that she forgot.

As for me, I love having an extra hand in the kitchen, then I don't have to go hunting for a spice or anything of that sort. But I have a galley kitchen and suspect the majority of my friends to be smart enough to stay out. i hope.

i want that umbrella.