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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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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Sometimes you just need a quickie.
You know, where you don’t want to drag out the big guns for a small mixing job?  That’s where this powerful (290 watts and 6 speeds) hand mixer comes in handy because it’s got enough get-up-and-go to muscle through thick cookie dough as well as whip up delicate egg whites [...]

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No need to spend the big bucks on a huge pot to boil lots of stuff.  As long as you have a pot with a thick bottom that conducts heat well, the cheap ones work great.
This 12-qt. pot is large enough to hold enough food to feed a ton of your peeps or to have [...]

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Take all the guesswork out of those pesky recipe measurements with this handy dandy digital measuring cup slash scale.
Milliliters, cups… it’s all soooo confusing.
Not anymore with this cool tool because it combines weights and volume in one handy tool.   Measures in pounds, ounces, milliliters, grams and fluid ounces…. one of which is sure to float [...]

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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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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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