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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Any tree-hugger who packs a lunch will soon be thrilled with the idea of eliminating (or at least reducing) their contribution to the millions of plastic lunch bags dumped in the landfill every day.
I know I am.
My kids take their lunch to school every day because the thought of the school cafeteria is more than [...]

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Even if you wait until the last minute to think about what’s for dinner because one kid needs help with homework and the other one has football practice, you can still have a tasty dinner on the table before dark.  With this.
Vacu Vin has created this marinating container that is like a science experiment in [...]

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I can’t even tell you how much we love these plastic tumblers, and believe me, I know you’re thinking I’m taking a ride on the crazy train if I’m getting all excited about some plastic cups.
But.
These are perfect. They fit neatly in the glasses section of the dishwasher without hesitation, they hold just the [...]

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How I wish I had found this Fruit Infusion Pitcher months ago because I am imagining all the lemon-infused water and raspberry iced tea I would have made this summer.
But, you know what?  It’s still hot.  Yesterday was the first day under 100 degrees in months, so I think I’ve still got some cool tea-sippin’ [...]

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All our drinking cups have disappeared. Poof. Gone. And I’m not talking about a few small juice glasses. I’m talking about at least a dozen large plastic cups in vivid colors such as blue and green. Absent from my kitchen.
I found one in the boy’s closet, God only knows why [...]

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Get your veggies on… the grill, that is.  I grilled asparagus the other day, with some difficulty, because those little stems kept falling through the grill grate.  We’ve been grilling a lot lately, partially because it’s too hot to turn on the oven and also because I hate to clean pans.  So, I found this [...]

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If you love the grilled fruit and veggies, and you’d better get busy eating them because before we know it, we’ll be back to apples, oranges and bananas. Not local. Not fresh. Not so grillable.
These skewers, from Charcoal Companion, are both beautiful and functional and would make an artful presentation of summer’s bounty [...]

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I posted this neoprene oven mitt by Duncan the other day, and I just ran across another neoprene oven mitt, this one here by Built.  The Duncan mitt works fantastically, stores flat and is really great for the kids.  I mean, so I don’t freak about my sweet darlings sticking their perfect scar-free flesh into [...]

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All our oven mitts are crusty and gross and covered with years worth of whatever I stuck my hand in. Especially the thumb of the mitt. I’ve washed it, really I have, but it just doesn’t come clean. Anytime we have someone over for dinner and I’m taking something out of the oven, I can [...]

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