Heather says: Today it is time to sit down for five minutes and decide: where, when, and who. Grab a pencil and write it down. Where will dinner be held? What time will dinner be served? Who is coming and does anyone have any allergies or dietary restrictions? Make your phone calls and begin firming …
Dear Home Ec 101: If you had a big jarful of fortune cookies left over from Chinese takeout, what would you do with them? Signed, ~ Fortunate One Heather says: Caution: Opening too many fortune cookies at once may be seriously harmful to your future. I was stumped for a moment. Leftover fortune cookies, how …
. Ivy says: Every once in awhile you come up with an idea that is so simple, you wonder why you didn’t think of it before. I was trying on outfits and hating most of them. The shirts were too short, the pants caused camel toe, nothing was right. And then I thought, “Why in …
Dear Home Ec 101: I know Kathy T usually sends you stupid questions, but I have a few for you, too. 1. What does salt do? I used to feel snottily superior about leaving it out of all my recipes, trying to be healthy, but realized that didn’t work when I tried to bake bread. …
Ivy says: Why, yes, I could use $500,000 for a dream house, thank you very much. Or 50 grand for a kitchen makeover. Heck, it’d probably only take $10,000 to make my kitchen fabulous. It’s awfully small. 😉 How do you win? Go to the Dream House giveaway website for official rules, but it’s pretty …
Ivy says: Since the weather is finally changing from hot to cold, now’s a good time to go through all your kids’ clothing and get rid of the stuff that doesn’t fit or just generally looks like crap. I use two methods to do this: at the source (drawers and closets) and during laundry time. …
Heather says: Daylight Savings Time will be in effect for another week. Hang in there and do not set your clocks back until next Sunday.
Ivy says: The holidays are coming up, and with them come the floods of visitors. Nobody wants to come to hot, miserable Nashville in the summer; so I go visit everyone up north in the summer, and all my Yankee relatives come see me in the winter. It works out. But when the guests get …
Dear Home Ec 101, I was hoping to do something with pork chops this week too, they are on sale. Do you do anything special to them, or just bake them straight up? Can anyone point me to a good pork chop recipe or pork roast (but not loin) recipe? Puzzled by Pork Heather says: …
Heather says: I love this pie. I love it so much that I’m willing to deal with pie crust just to eat it. Feel free to halve the recipe, if I go to the trouble to make one pie I go ahead and make a second for a friend. 14 apples, peeled, cored, sliced* (use …