When you make cookies, do they turn out completely flat? To the point where they are see through? This happens to me every once in a while, and I’ve come across a few ways to correct it with the...

Cast iron cookware is the last thing you’d suspect of shattering or cracking when heated, but it’s happening with Paula Deen hammered cast iron cookware, sold by QVC and distributed by Meyer...

I’ve tried a lot of different recipes for curried carrot soup because my family loves that taste of curry. They also like soup. However, every time I made a recipe for curry carrot soup it...

Coke drinkers insist that Coke from different containers (glass, plastic and aluminum) tastes different. However, Coca-Cola’s spokespeople say it just isn’t so. It all is the same to them,...

It’s been 20 years in the making, but the US now has an egg safety rule. It’s aimed at reducing the number of Salmonella enteritidis (SE) illnesses and deaths related to eating eggs. Some suppliers, such as those with less than 3,000 layi...

I never before realized how many cool things you can do with styrofoam. Styrofoam is easy to work with and it is fairly inexpensive. I have a project here that calls for an 8 inch cube, but you can use a smaller cube. I wouldn’t suggest using a cube...

Not sure what to get someone to let them know you are thinking of them during a difficult time? Should you give them money? A gift? It can be difficult to determine the best thing to do to ease your friend’s grief. A nice sympathy gift, filled with...

The White House is decked out for the Obama family’s first Washington Christmas. Part of the fun includes a 390-pound replica of the White House, complete with a marzipan presidential dog Bo and the First Lady’s kitchen garden. White House pastry chef...

You can slap a holiday wreath on your front door and say you’re done decorating it for the holidays, but there are so many fun things that you can do with a door that it is sort of a shame to stop there. It takes me a few days to decorate each door,...

I don’t know about you, but my life is so hectic around the holidays. When you realize you don’t have any idea of what to cook for dinner, it is really easy to just order take out or grab unhealthy fast food meals as you rush from one errand to...