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My Aunt forwarded me an e-mail with a bunch of useful tips and tricks for around the house. Here are some of the ones I found helpful. Do you have any household tricks of your own? To easily remove burnt on food from your skillet, simply add a drop or two of dish soap and enough water to cover bottom...

A few weeks back I started my vegetable garden. I am growing a variety of tomatoes, peppers, zucchini and squash. Things started good, but I’m having pest problems. Bugs began appearing on my plants. Leaves were getting holes and turning yellow or shriveling up. In addition, when flowers opened...

If recipes were all that were needed to be able to cook, then all of us would be master chefs. But unfortunately, only a handful of us are. So what’s the deal then with the hundreds of thousands of cookbooks that are published each year and the tons of recipes they contain from cover to cover? And with...

To many, good nutrition and thanksgiving dinner seem to cancel each other out. However it should be possible and even easy to make a nutritious meal that is a pleasure to share with friends and family. Here are a few tips to help you make your holiday meals healthy ones too. Prepare a wide variety of...

Planning Thanksgiving dinner and preparing it can be very stressful, especially if you have a large family or are expecting a number of guests. In order to make Thanksgiving more enjoyable for yourself as well as your guests, some advance planning and preparation will work wonders. Use these tips to...

Fresh peppers can be roasted directly on a gas burner, grill or under the broiler. If you use the broiler you’ll need to turn the peppers periodically to get them evenly blackened. Cook until charred all over and then transfer to a plastic zip top bag to sweat. Seal the bag and let steam 10 minutes...

I found a very interesting article on another blog about going green in the kitchen. It is titled, 100 Big and Little Ways To Make Your Kitchen More Earth-Friendly. Now you can have an Eco-Kitchen!