Save time and effort, and impress your guests, too The winter holidays are not the time to take a break! It’s the height of entertaining to have a great holiday party. But you can make it easier and even more impressive with these affordable kitchen shortcut gadgets.

Take a break from streaming with board games for two With fall and winter approaching, it’s hard to let go of summer. After all, things seemed to break loose this summer as people came out of two years of being cloistered. …

A vaccination I had in 1976 might have done the trick — (Updates provided at the end of the article, the latest being Sept. 2021) I remember the day vividly, a hot autumn day in 1976, when my father and I entered the cafeteria of the lone public school in our Missouri town of 520 people, a K-12 school where I’d graduated…

These are the best audiobooks to fill that empty time Need a listen that’s great for commuting, or on a road trip? You likely want something that you can stop and start without losing the “story.” Nonfiction audiobooks are perfect for that. And if you love food, these 5 titles…

The ONE easy shortcut for cutting past the many ads, distracting links, and ensuring the recipes you make are accurate Have you looked for a recipe on the internet, and when you put in a term like “rice and cheese casserole,” or “ways to cook spinach,” you immediately go to…

Impress your friends but don’t tell them what you put in their food Just because you like to cook doesn’t mean you have to break your neck doing it. When I’m making a dish for a potluck or neighborhood get-together, sometimes I make a complicated recipe. But there are occasions…

Save Money, Save Time, Look Like a Pro in the Kitchen Bacon should be America’s official #1 food. When I didn’t know better, I fried bacon on the stove. A colossal mess to clean. Then I learned how to put bacon strips on a wire rack inside a pan in…

I have never responded to a post like this, but could not resist this time. You will find some startling information. 1. My phone went dead while reading comments, so I went to my desktop to try to find the piece again. On Medium I searched for "Show Me Yours…

I’m Exhausted and Crabby Sometimes I think the universe put me in a rural place and made a pandemic just so this could happen. Then I think how narcissistic and inherently dumb that thought truly is. Then I think one man’s meat is another man’s poison. Then I think there is no great loss…