An article on Lifehacker (link) yesterday discusses an article on The Simple Dollar about creating meal exchanges. On a certain day, everyone in the exchange meets for coffee and brings along a laundry basket full of frozen meals, one for each family, along with any needed instructions taped to the lid. The members of the [...]

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One of the things that I have really found interesting while watching Top Chef is that they know how to make cakes from scratch. When I was young the only cakes we had came out of a box or were purchased in plastic container from the store. When I was young I never really thought [...]

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The new season of Top Chef started on Bravo last night and it really made me think.  For their first quick fire challenge they had to make a unique deep dish pizza that would then get judged.  A lot of the contestants made horrible looking pizzas but I wondered if I was the one making [...]

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Amanda and I made homemade marshmallows after seeing the recipe on Good Eats (link) . It looked really simple on the show, but it always does. I couldn’t take anymore studying last night so we made them to unwind. For the most part it turned out to be very easy but was a bit messy.

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