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What is the ideal temperature for a refrigerator? I have an odd kitchen area (comes from having a house built in 1864) with an under-stair area that holds a fridge on one side and a pantry closet on the other. Part of the pantry closet is actually underground (we're built into a hillside) and...

What do you do? How many people? Is it a regular annual thing or something you're just doing this year? I plan my big party of the year for the first Sunday afternoon in December. I joke with hubby that we can invite 30; we can invite 50, but 40 always show up. I collect an "admission...

Hmmm, interesting that I couldn't figure out where to put this. It is by no means wild game (very domestic, in my very limited small-town grocery store freezer), but it isn't chicken or turkey either. That said, I'm putting a duck on the Weber tomorrow. My husband wants the breasts for dinner...

Who is planning a summer party? I found myself with less than a week's notice having a Bastille Day party. It isn't a full meal (I'm looking at late afternoon, but before supper), and I happen to have a half-wheel of goat brie (yes, those of you who read other lines, a locally made cheese) and...

Does someone know why plastic takes so much longer to dry than metal, glass, and pottery? Please bear in mind that I don't have a dishwasher (unless you count my spouse!). But I always wind up hand drying anything made from plastic when my pots & pans, dishes & glasses & flatwear are long dry.

I'm sure someone is making money on this, but I cannot move past the Jeep ad without blanking out. I cannot even remember what my question was.

Do any of you cook so many meals per week that you forget what you cooked, when? Am I suffering from dementia? I only cooked dinner about 4 hours ago, and I looked at tonight's site for food, and had to actually go and look at what pans needed to be put away to remind me (no biggie, Fajitas)...

Medical insania. I just recently had a friend, whose arm was fractured in a car accident, ask me when my hip "pins" are going to be removed. She showed me hers. Huh? Pins? I make jewelry, and those are finer and lighter than the pins I use to make jewelry. My so-called pins are my life for...

What do you do? What is your daily routine? Do you even have a daily routine?

One thing that worked -- astoundingly well -- for my husband and me was that I told him I wasn't going to count. I cook good food, neither are junk food junkies. He went to the dietician (alone, I might add. His doc, who was also mine at the time, wanted me to go. No. When it was...

OK, here's one I don't remember seeing posted before (remember, I've been out of touch for a month or two, so, monitors, feel free to delete). Over recent years I've had friends who say they never eat leftovers. Are they rich or ... I don't know. I guess, at this point in my life, I could...

First of all, I live in a quite small town (3500), in the Midwest, with no direct flights to either ocean. We have two grocery stores, only one of which has a butcher and a fish/seafood counter. Very, very small. One thing this counter always has is IQF, beautiful, large, sea scallops...

.... and, yes, I did look up the other line and read it, but it was getting long and unwieldy. I'm mostly interested in the newer lines of nonstick surfaces. From what I understand the Teflon ones that I used to buy cheap and throw away without regrets when they ceased to be nonstick w/o...

I just got the call that my father died. I'm crying my heart out. end of posts for today.

I have friends who keep everything. I mean everything. I have a sister who admits to being a hoarder. I, on the other hand, go through my house every year, and toss everything that I know I won't use in the next year. I guess that makes me a bit anal? I just do not like a lot of junk...

OK, there's probably something like this already here, but I can't find it. What have you done, or has someone done for you, recently that really gave you a lift to your day. For example, about a year ago, I was in the Wal-Mart parking lot and found an elderly woman really struggling to get...

I asked around here about these and got much info, and still managed to buy one set that was (a) not the color pictured in the catalog) and (be had a fabric-like surface. Returned them. (I think the brand was Gel-matts or something like then). Then I decided to go for cute and got the ones...

I am looking for a commercial BBQ sauce that isn't terribly sweet. Most I've bought are so sugar-y that I could hardly stand it, and my husband is a borderline diabetic, so forget this. Anyone have a recommendation?

I have a good set of Wustof knives we saved up and bought individually about 10 years ago. They recently didn't seem to be keeping their edge very long (one or two uses and we had to sharpen them again). Then I was watching something on TV that instructed that we were "honing" the knives...

There used to be a line like this, but can't find it so will start over. As some who follow know, I fractured a hip two months ago. I'm just now starting to get back into my favorite thing, exercise classes (I like the fact that my exercise "buddies", and we live in a small town, will "miss"...

Where does this go? I'm having my kitchen re-done (well, the walls anyway) and would like to find the old-fashioned cotton damask country check (you know, picture Italian restaurants and picnics) fabric yardage or table cloths. You used to be able to find them in red (preferred), green, and...

I live in an 1854 old house. The kitchen probably dates from the late 1800s. The last owner (a dozen or so years ago) painted everything blue or wallpapered it blue plaid. We had to replace the counters (they were burned) and did so with Corian, which is a sort of sage-green fake granite...

Over the years we had a "bunch for brunch" group. Since husband and I are the only morning people among our friends, it somehow turned into lunch (isn't that what the noon meal is usually called?). Anyway, years ago I decided that if we were meeting at noon I didn't have to stick to breakfast...

This isn't really a problem, but I am curious as to what it is. Because I am only now being able to get out and water my vegetable/herb garden (uneven ground, broken hip), my husband has taken over that duty. he was sort of panicked the other day when he saw what I jokingly, to myself, have...

I know I started a line like this many moons ago (it may have even been before DC), but something I just wrote brought it to the front of my mind yet again: Your first place is your home; where you live. Your second place is your job, where you go every day to make payments on the first place...