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Happy Holidays Everyone! Just wondering here what you guys are thinking about this latest news on chicken contamination? Apparently, a recent study/inspection determined that 83% of roasting chicken is processed under very unsanitary conditions and things like E.coli are prominent. Personally...

Go Emmit Go!! Loved his personality and smooth dancing style. Also, he didn't "cheat" on some of the dancing styles like Mario, but rather did well, with little or no criticism from any of the judges week after week. Alas, I tried to vote for approximately 45 min. last night and never got...

Pillowcases would also work for transporting your laundry to and from the laundromat. My question to you, however, is, really now, exactly how much dust and emmisions can be absorbed by your laundry during a two block walk anyhow?

While at my hairdresser's this morning, I mentioned that my husband had harvested 87 lbs. of sweet potatoes last week, so we will be eating them very frequently now. She asked me if I knew that sweet potatoes could be frozen. I had never heard of doing that and she said to just scrub them, bake...

Vicki - Your post has me very curious. You say that your husband split the lobsters in half and then removed the claws. Did he do all that while the lobsters were still alive or had you precooked them by boiling? If they were precooked, then I would think the grilling time frame would have been...

Here in DE, Tilapia goes for $5.99/lb. and sometimes on "sale" for $4.99/lb. fileted at a local fresh seafood market. It is practically the only fish filet we buy, except for salmon and/or tuna steaks. My husband and I like Tilapia even better than flounder because it does not have a "fishy"...

I have seen this show many times. We had it set up on our TIVO unit. I think the guy is SO full of himself and absolutely could not stand his style. We took it off TIVO.

That's an amazing challenge you've given yourself. What will you do if you come across a recipe that calls for something you absolutely can't stand, say like kidneys or turnip greens, whatever? Will you still go ahead and make it or pass it by? Hope you keep us all posted on your progress.

Totally agree with Alex. Gas prices are outrageous and oil company profits are obscene. Apparently, there is no accounting for what they can and do charge. Bush, et al, are a bunch of oil men so what do they care about this anyhow? Now, I hear on the news, that our brilliant minds in Bush's...

Must be a personal choice, because I just don't see the need to use crock pot liners. No matter what I cook in mine or for however long, cleanup is no problem at all, basically no more difficult that cleaning up a pot that veggies were cooked in. Waste of money and a "gimmic" in my opinion.

I have to agree that the little "mom and pop" restaurants seemingly always have better food than the "fancy" places. My husband and I had an experience once where we went to what was supposed to be a very nice place in Princeton for dinner on an anniversary date and the food was a huge...

I'm in agreement with Michael in that I roast sweet potatoes. I just drizzle the peeled and washed potatoes with light olive oil and sprinkle with S&P. My husband does not like them "sweetened" up with brown sugar, molasses, etc., but rather plain. Since the oven will have to be on for so long...

When I am going to slow cook something, particularly thinking of spaghetti sauce, I will prepare all the ingredients and add to a large crock pot, then just let it simmer away for the day (first on hi to fully heat - then on low). I always make a large batch of homemade spaghetti sauce so I can...

Green onions are nothing like shallots which have kind of a combination taste of a very mild onion and mild garlic. Shallots are more expensive than either green onions or garlic. We grow them both in our gardens and it saves quite a bit of money, especially with the shallots. Shallots are...

The worst movie I saw years ago was The English Gentleman. Went to see it because it had just been nominated for an Academy Award for best film and expected it would be good. It was entirely too long and there was this one male character in it who throughout the entire movie it was never made...