The holiday season can be a very busy and hectic time, even more so if you have a lot of people and planning for family gatherings. Fortunately, there are many useful apps available on the iPhone that can help everyone make the holiday season much easier and more manageable. With all the handy apps apps […]
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Jun
Jun
Meyer lemon trees, one of the hardiest citrus trees, and a favorite backyard fruit tree, produce fruit year round. Unless potted or planted to a dwarf block, expect a Meyer lemon to grow to fifteen feet tall. Meyers work well in pots, which allows them to grow even in otherwise colder winter areas. A tree […]
I love winter weather. It doesn’t take much beating coming from the snow shovel, and is greeted with steaming hot soup. It is a problem for me that my winters are very busy. Between coaching basketball and holding down a daily job, I find it hard to find time to heart soup. I think it […]
Raki (Arabic word meaning sweat) is Turkey’s unofficial national drink. The literal meaning could also be referred to the way that the drink is made during distillation or when one drinks too much, one sweats. It is a non-sweet anise flavored drink that has been twice distilled much like Greek Tsipouro or Spanish Orujo. It […]
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Jan
Jan
You’ve seen the commercials: Beautiful models lounging by the pool, telling you how they lost weight with a prepackaged meal plan. What they don’t tell you is the health dangers associated with these diet foods. No matter what plan you’re thinking of using, if you get on it, you may be in for more health […]
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Decades before one could just “google” a recipe or log onto Epicurious.com, there were church cookbooks. They were a regular fundraising effort for many years, enough so that there was an entire publishing niche for the genre – Midwestern companies that specialized in knitting the pages together with that functional black plastic binding. Committees of […]
The Cook-At-Home Revolution has spawned several great websites for people who want to improve their cooking skills, and here is a list of what I think are the best cooking websites for foodies. For anyone unfamiliar with this term, a foodie, according to Wikipedia, is anyone who seeks food preparation for their own sake, as […]
The other day, I decided I would like to grill a nice steak and enjoy a baked potato and salad on the side. Not being a huge red meat eater, I headed off to the local grocery store in search of the perfect steak. To my surpise, I felt as if I was in a […]