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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In case you haven’t quite mastered that special hand position that chefs use… you know, the one where you curl back your fingers on the hand that’s holding  the food, we bring you Safe Slice.
This useful tool helps you safely grip and chop carrots, potatoes and other slippery foods so your fingers don’t end up [...]

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The guys love baking and decorating and eating sugar cookies for Valentine’s Day.  We share with teachers, neighbors and anyone else that comes by.  Of course, we have a great variety of heart cookie cutters and even a cupid shooting an arrrow, but NO lips.  These are so cute and different and I think they’re [...]

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If you’re a child of the 80’s, you remember the Rubik’s cube.  Maybe you even solved this innocent-looking puzzle.  I know I spent some hours on this.
And if you loved it then, you can love it again now, as a salt or pepper mill.  Shaped like the classic Rubik’s cube with a ceramic mill inside.  [...]

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All those hours in the gym won’t increase your jar-opening muscle one bit.  Your heart will be strong and your pants will fit better, but you won’t be able to open that jar of olives any easier.
And it seems that one of two things is happening, either a) I’m getting weaker or b) companies using [...]

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Sometimes your day just calls for a cupcake, but having the time to mix and bake an entire batch… just doesn’t happen as often as it used to.
Now, with The Original Cupcake Maker, you can make a mini batch in just 5 minutes.
That’s right.  FIVE.  Minutes.
In less time than it would take you to make [...]

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