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Astoundingly Savory Vegetarian Red Beans and Rice Recipe
Enjoy this unusually savory vegetarian dish of red beans and rice—it's been tested in our kitchen and is well-loved in our home.
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Should You Eat Daylilies? Safety, Toxicity, and Other Facts
There is controversy over the safety of eating daylilies. This article tells you why and helps you make informed decisions about whether you should eat this flower.
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How to Keep Stella de Oro Daylilies Blooming All Season
Here is one simple practice to follow to keep your Stella de Oro daylilies and other reblooming daylilies flowering continuously throughout the growing season.
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Sally's Oil-Free Salad Dressing: An "Eat to Live" Recipe
This recipe for Sally's rich, creamy, and tart oil-free salad dressing uses ingredients that are compatible with Joel Fuhrman's "Eat to Live" program.
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Candy Birthday Corsages: A Vintage Tradition Poised for a Comeback?
Candy birthday corsages for girls went out of fashion a long time ago. Is this vintage tradition ready for a comeback?
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Generate Short Story Ideas With This Powerful Creative Writing Exercise
This article shows you how to generate short story ideas by collecting found objects and examining them through drawing.
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Use Your Right Brain to Convert Fahrenheit and Celsius Degrees
If you find it difficult to convert between Fahrenheit and Celsius, it may be because you are a right-brain learner. Here are visualization tips to cement the differences between degrees F and degrees C in your mind.
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How To Tell Outside Temperature by Observing Rhododendron Leaves
For as dramatically beautiful as rhododendron blossoms are in the height of their spring bloom, rhododendron leaves are equally fascinating, and even mysterious, during cold weather. You can learn to estimate outside temperature, without a thermometer, by observing the changing shapes of...
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How I Lost 15 Pounds in 6 Months on Joel Fuhrman's Eat to Live Program
How to lose 15 pounds relatively painlessly and also make this healthy food plan work for the rest of your life.
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10 Tips to Make Every Pot of Homemade Soup a Success
Here are ten great tips for making any hot and hearty soup a great success—even when something goes wrong.
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Why Does Garlic Turn Blue and Is It Safe to Eat?
Garlic that unexpectedly turns blue during cooking or pickling can be quite an unpleasant surprise to both new and experienced cooks. How does garlic turn blue? Is blue garlic safe to eat?
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6 Creative Uses for Ice Buckets: Repurpose Your Old Bucket!
Here are six practical and clever ways to repurpose an ice bucket (or two). Ice buckets have more uses than just holding ice!
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How To Play Nice in Life’s Sandbox - 5 Essential Lessons Learned in Childhood
Lessons learned in childhood can help us play nice in life’s sandbox. Here are the lessons I learned in childhood that can do more good than harm as life’s sandbox expands while the world grows smaller.
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How to Use Manischewitz Mixes to Make Your Own Signature Soups
Learn how to make your own signature soups using Manischewitz cello soup mixes as basic soup starters.
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10 Tips for Reducing Knee and Back Pain While Gardening
Use these 10 tips to help avoid and reduce back and knee pain while you garden. Here's how you can garden with bad knees.
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The Lonesome Steam Whistle and Other Haunting American Train Sounds
Train whistles, horns, and bells are much more than necessary warning systems. For many, they evoke a haunting sense of melancholy and longing. Enjoy watching these videos and listening to the captivating sounds of American train whistles, horns, and bells.
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Hunting for the Original Bisquick Impossible Quiche Recipe
The hugely popular Bisquick Impossible Quiche of yesteryear disappeared when our diets shifted in the 1980s from old-fashioned comfort food to a more modern sensibility. Join me in my search to find and make this retro family favorite.
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Pack Your Own Satisfying and Healthy Road Trip Food!
You will save money and be kind to your body by packing your own satisfying, healthy road trip foods. In this article, you will find a food list, prep methods, and tips for keeping road foods safe.
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The Tale of a Sadistic Dentist
This is a little story from the 1950s about a dentist who was a sadist. This is a true story. It took place in my small home town when I was eight years old.
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10 Tips for Writing Your Own Original Recipes
Whether you want to write a cookbook, publish your original food recipes online, or share recipes with friends, use these 10 tips to make your recipes easy for others to follow.
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The S&H Green Stamps Family - Growing Up as a Company Child
My mother's former employment for S&H Green Stamps entitles me to call myself a company child. Those were the days of the company taking care of its employees.
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Meals for One Person - An Easy and Balanced Weekly Menu Featuring Autumn and Winter Foods
This easy weekly menu from Sally's kitchen features foods we associate with autumn and winter, foods such as roasts, winter squashes, root vegetables, cabbages and chards, hearty soups, and citrus fruits.
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How to Make Kielbasa and Cabbage: A Polish Family Recipe
Learn how to make Polish kielbasa and cabbage—a simple, hearty meal that pleases a crowd without breaking the budget.
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How to Make Your Herbs Last Through the Winter
Scared of your herbs dying outside this winter? You can bring herbs indoors for the winter, whether in their live forms or as preserved herbal essences. Learn to know your herbs and their requirements to have their bounty with you throughout the winter.
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10 Tips on How to Prepare Plants for Winter Indoors
Most houseplants transitioning from the outdoors to the indoors will show, to some degree, signs of stress. Here are my top 10 tips for making that transition as stress-free as possible.
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Spitting in America: Spittoons of Yesterday, a Photo Gallery
Between the mid-1800s and the 1930s, spittoons were as common in American households as pots and pans and as common in American public places as trash cans. It was the golden age of spitting in America. These photos tell the story.
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10 Uses for Chives
You can use chive plants and their flowers in so many ways, from attracting bees to flavoring foods. Here are the top 10 uses.
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Winning the War on Garden Weeds
Don't know how to get rid of weeds? I mounted an offensive campaign in the garden on marauding Canada thistle, bindweed, and bugleweed. Victory will be mine!
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How to Make Polish Stuffed-Breast Veal Pocket
Stuffed veal breast is one of our Polish family's favorite meat dishes. It is easy to prepare, smells fantastic roasting in the oven, and has a beautiful presentation. Here's how to make it yourself.
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Spitting in America - Does Law Enforcement Work?
Ever since the tuberculosis bacterium and its transmission modes were identified in the late 1800s, municipalities across the country have struggled with enacting and enforcing effective laws against spitting.
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Why Do Men Spit?
How disgusted are you when you see someone hocking a glob of gunk out of his throat and shooting that loogie out? Let's take a look at spit and spitting for some insight into why guys spit.
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Making Bread the Old-Fashioned Way: Getting Back to Basics
Join me while I step away from the world of bread-making machines and back into the strength, joy, and balance of working bread by hand.
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Molecular Gastronomy: Where Science Meets Cuisine
Molecular gastronomy, the science, has brought us a keener understanding of why things work the way they do when we cook foods, but it has also promoted new and sensational styles in cuisine.
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How to Find the Best Sweet Corn and Keep It Fresh
Here in the USA during the summer months, sweet corn is busting out all over. Whether you grow your own sweet corn or buy it, here's how to make sure the corn you eat in this wonderful season is fresh and full of sugar.
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Overcoming Writer's Block with Particle, Wave, Field Theory
We get writer's block, otherwise known as white page syndrome, blank canvas terror, or frozen brain, from time to time. Here's an easy writing exercise based on particle, wave, field theory to help you overcome writer's block.
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How to Prepare a Weekly Meal Plan for One Person
Cooking for just yourself is always a challenge; however, cooking for one can be both enjoyable and easy. This step-by-step guide walks you through each day. And there's only one day of prep!
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How to Make Shepherd's Pie: Quick & Easy Canadian Recipe
This wonderful recipe was invented by a dear French Canadian friend. It is easy, it is quick, and it is comfort food of the highest order. Includes a poem!
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How to Cook the Best Roast Beef Despite Your Fears
I used to be afraid of cooking beef because it wasn't common in my home growing up. But I eventually learned how to make the perfect roast beef every time. And you can, too, despite your fears.
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Russian Dressing: Our Family's Recipe
Russian dressing was the hot salad condiment of the 1960s. Sadly, the bottled versions seem to have gone missing in recent years. You can find my family recipe here!