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I recently read an article about recipe deal breakers for cooks. It reminded me of my first attempt at Peanut Brittle which was a complete disaster. Here is an excerpt from the article by Kim Severson.
I was reading a recipe for apple strudel when I came to a sentence that stopped me cold: “If you [...]

I’ve made chicken salad all of once. To me, it’s not worth the effort when I can go down the street and buy it fresh from the Ingles deli. I know there are many variations of chicken salad, but this one has served me well. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve transferred this [...]

I’m not going into details about why I had to purchase Benadryl recently, but it has to do with an unidentified insect and a bad reaction. Regular Benadryl absolutely knocks me out but usually does the trick when it comes to my seemingly random allergic reactions. I asked the pharmacist if there was anything that [...]

We had a family wedding this weekend. The wedding was beautiful, the bride was exquisite and the flatware was plastic. Forget the clear stuff. This was shiny. I had no idea until I physically held the fork in my hand that it wasn’t stainless steel. And of course, I pulled out my camera and snapped [...]

Here is a recipe for a sauce that is great for grilled chicken. It originated from the Weber Gas Grill Cookbook that came with our grill. This tasty sauce has served us well at family get-togethers and parties over the years. Yes, it’s so good that we have been making it for years… 6 to [...]

Here is an album I made for my husband’s grandfather for Christmas 2007 using Shutterfly. It was fairly quick even for a perfectionist, and easy to do using their templates. Shutterfly allows users to post projects in personal galleries, which is a fun way to share albums with others as well as creative ideas. As [...]

Recently at book club, we were talking about the latest trend of creating photo books online. Before scrapbooking was popular and all the cool tools came out, I would cut out photos, draw creative lettering with colored pencils, and use plain old tape to attach photos. Needless to say, the scrapbooks eventually fell apart. That [...]

I love code. I do, I really do. I get lost in it. I could read, write and experiment with code all day long… which is why I have been very slack in keeping up my blog lately. I cannot tell you how many hours (upon hours) I have spent lately reading articles about CSS [...]