Category Archives: How To

Taking Your Lunch to Work Just Got Easier!

It doesn't sound all that hard - preparing a sandwich at night to take to work the next day.  But somehow, it is for me.  At the end of a long day, the last thing I want to do is dirty my kitchen after my husband has cleaned it up after dinner.  The option of making a sandwich at the same time I prepare dinner is good, in theory.  However my dinner preparation now includes keeping a very busy 1-year-old
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Rantings of a Recipe Junky!

Do you own over one hundred cookbooks?  Have you ever spent a great deal of time looking for "that" recipe in "that" cookbook?  I have-frequently!  I am a recipe junky-I admit it.  I own many (hundreds) of cookbooks.  I tear recipes out of magazines and newspapers.  I print them off the web.  I have files at home (big ones) with recipes I'd like to try.  I will have to live to be 200 years old to try all of them. 
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Brand Name vs. Generic – Can You Tell the Difference?

On a recent rainy Sunday afternoon, my husband and I wanted to get out of the house.  I had writer's block trying to think of a fun topic for this blog and our daughter needed some entertainment beyond Mom and Dad.  After tossing around several ideas, we came up with the brilliant idea of going to our local supercenter store that has covered parking and buying the brand name and generic versions of various food products.  (You think I'm kidding
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