Add a towel bar with no tools, no time and no effort… unless you consider opening the cabinet and then closing it “effort”.
Easy and functional, this brushed nickel towel bar is a stylish way to get that towel off the countertop while still leaving at your fingertips.
Find it here for about 6 bucks.

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I picked up some of these containers by StayFit the other day and I gotta say, they work pretty well.  And they’re quite inexpensive.
You see, we try to send healthy lunches to school for the boys, but invariably, I hear My cheese was too hot. or My pasta was cold. They say other stuff too, [...]

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I’m still on the hunt for the perfect mixing bowl set.
I used to own one, a stainless steel set made by Farberware and included in my first set of cookware as a bonus.  You can’t buy them separately now, and I’m not sure that you ever could, but I want them.  And I can’t have [...]

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For some people, eating wheat (and rye and barley) is not a choice.  Their bodies can’t handle it. And this condition, whether it’s gluten intolerance or full-blown celiac disease, seems to be increasing in prevalence.
Let’s just stop and think about that for a minute.  No hot bread, straight from the oven, slathered with butter, the [...]

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We still have several more months before the abundance of fruit appears in our local grocery stores.  I can hardly wait for the cherries.
Not the tiny little sour pebbles that are in the store right now, for $15 a pound.
Noooooooooooo.  The sweet walnut-sized cherries from heaven… that’s what I’m talking about.
For now, we need to [...]

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Although I’m certainly eating fewer bagels, like none,  these days, my boys still love ‘em dearly.  I do miss a nice toasted schmear with cream cheese.  If only my body wouldn’t violently reject it.  But no.
Anyway.
Real bagels, you know, the kind from the bakery, need to be sliced in order to be toasted.  Have you [...]

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My fantastic new oven burned me last week. Burned me bad.  I still have the scar, although I’m sure, in time, it will fade, as my pain has faded.
Sniff sniff.  Waaahhhhh.
Here’s what happened:  I was minding my own business, removing a key lime pie from the second rack in the oven, when OW, @#$(*@(#*! , [...]

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Back in college, in the olden days, I had a hot pot, affectionately termed Polly Hot Pot (I don’t know we called it that), in which I made everything imaginable, so as to avoid the food in the dorm cafeteria.
Polly Hot Pot never failed.  She persevered through it all: mac-n-cheese, Chunky soup, chocolate fondue, hot [...]

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With all the things that moms are required to attend to these days, helping with homework, batting practice, combing hair, washing clothes, etc., any tool that makes life easier is totally welcome.
And this is one of those things.
This digital spoon scale measures both weight and volumes for precise cooking results.  You heard me.  This [...]

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Love clean dishes, but hate those scrubbie sponges that attract all kinds of funk and whatnot after their first use?  Me too.  And then I wonder if I’m really cleaning my pots and pans or just adding more bacteria than I started with.  Ick.
Spaghetti scrub to the rescue.  Listen up, because this is unique and [...]

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