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Rice cooker + onions = a passable carmelized onion, with minimal (or no) stirring. Better if you keep the top of the rice cooker off.

I still eat the peanut butter balls from this book:
http://www.amazon.com/Kinder-Krunchies-Healthy-Snack-Recipes-Children/dp/B000PGAY28
It's actually one of the just 2 cookbooks in my kitchen (other being an old betty crocker), simply for the nostalgia of it.

Mostly very basic, designed so that it can be used in classes I think (includes questions to get kids to think, teach kids to cook). The recipes and layout are set up so that kids would be able to do many of them with just a bit of help, including reading the recipes. Recipes range from more complex like bread, granola, etc to juicing oranges and grapefruit together (something a kid could probably do themselves once you cut the fruits in half for them), and so on Everything is at least somewhat healthy- most of the recipes are more "healthy [but tasty] snack" and not so much dessert.

We have had good luck with Sears recently for a number of appliances (bank owned condos we are buying don't tend to have appliances in them :) ).

Best Buy...not so much- so bad, in fact, we will not be buying appliances from them again.

2 of 3 appliances had missing or not working parts (1 of which involved water then going all over the floor twice), had to have multiple service calls, and were not installed correctly- still waiting on one to be fixed properly. Distribution center also did not have the item we paid for (ordered a month early), and told us to ask the store for a part that was missing on another item(which the store doesn't carry and which should have come with the appliance to begin with). Service people have also failed to show up. Huge timesuck not worth the very small amount that may have been saved on the appliances.

I would never buy a place that smelled like smoke- especially the hallways. I don't want to breate it in!

Don't forget knit french press cozies!

I eat more dried beans than tofu just for this reason.

You can make spindles easily out of toy wheel dowel or old cd dowel. You need to be spinning a thin yarn for those to work well though :)

There are scratches and a chunk bitten off from my door as testament to how little the cat likes being shut out of the bedroom. He will meow himself hoarse. Repeatedly.

It's cute that he sleeps on my pillow next to me, but I wish he didn't sleep in the bedroom.

I have 2 types- one that is much thinner and needs to be in a muffin tin, and ones that I thicker. I vastly prefer the thicker ones! I haven't had problems with them, besides the fact that popovers dont work well in them.

Novel, but I think it could have been taken a couple steps further.