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HA! HAAAAA!!! I totally do NOT have it so together. I do love to cook, though. And I do have an absurd amount of education, for better or worse. But that's about it. Believe me, I have very little together. That's part of what I like about reading on this forum... seeing how people whose...

There are a lot of good hearty meatless dishes that are stick-to-your-ribs enough that nobody will care, in my opinion. For instance: West African Peanut Stew big can of tomatoes, chopped up 1/4 cup unsweetened peanut butter (or more if you want it thicker) 1 big peeled chunk of ginger, diced...

Once I went to a local "dig 'n' save" outlet... basically, big cardboard boxes full of unfolded, messy clothes for $1 a pound... they don't have time or employees to sort things, so it's cheap. Anyway, they had a sale: all coats $1 even. And I found a huge stash of coats from the local police...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHH! Gigantic cute ants! Quick, hide all the sugary snacks!

He should just do what I do... don't even bother being miffed, and just right off the bat, be all, "hey! I cleaned things!" You know, it feels ridiculous doing it, but I get proud in a "I'm a filthy BOY, but look I cleaned stuff!" kind of way. And there's nothing wrong with tooting your own...

Ooooh! Just remembered, I have a 19th century knife in its case, that a friend who sifts through donations somewhere put aside for us. We don't ever use it, but now THAT's old. Too old to use, kind of... we more keep it around because it's awesome.

I have SO much work to do, and no time to do it. ARGH. I'm using these few hours after the baby goes to bed to get all my work done, but it's piling up on me! I have 30 papers to grade! I have 2 huge assignments to correct! I have a 500-page book to read by next Tuesday! And no time to do...

HA! That was so easy. :th I was all frustrated, and somehow just never looked. D'oh!

Hey, this is a silly thing, but I've been meaning to ask. I've got 12 fairly basic smilies at the top of the page each time I post. And I don't know well enough to know what the others are... where are you all getting them from? Is there a master list somewhere? How have you found all these...

I don't know why I love this soup so much, but it's really just SO good, and doesn't even look like it should be delicious. But trust me, it IS. Wild Rice and Beet Top Soup 3 Tbsp. room-temp butter 1 small yellow onion, minced 1/4 cup wild rice 4 1/2 cups chicken stock 1 1/2 pounds of beet...

cods hell (hee hee. I'm picturing fish, frying over an open, demonic flame.)

Excellent news! :)

Honestly, I just mop with water most of the time. I sweep the floor real well, and then mop with water. And when it needs something more, on occasion, I use a (overpriced, but I'm a bit of a hippie) "Method" brand floor cleaner that's biodegradable and doesn't leave much of a film.

Yeah, I guess 8,000 isn't really very small... it just seems so small here because the town is in such terrible shape. Unemployment hovering around 18%, all the factories but one little one have closed down, the hospital closed down, lots of abandoned storefronts and homes falling apart. Makes...

hee hee... I guess "urban" depends on perspective. Like, I'm living in a small town of about 8,000 in the middle of nowhere, with very little going on. So to me (I just moved from a 250,000 person city) it feels like I'm very very far from urban. But then, I guess if I had a farm in the...

I mostly have new-ish things, thanks to the influx of kitchen stuff we got at our wedding. In fact, I can't really think of an old appliance in my kitchen. Bummer! I have very old cookbooks, and some chopsticks my sister brought back from a trip to China 15 years ago or so. And metal mixing...

Not to focus on ME ME ME (ha!) but just wondering if it might make sense to add to the list we've got going some titles that aren't land-specific. I think there are others like me around here, who don't really have land for gardening or farming, but are doing other kinds of things to work...

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Annmarie, We don't really give gifts to anyone but family and our child's godparents... not out of any moral choice, just seems easier, and we've never had anyone else give us gifts... and besides, the gifts are just secondary to seeing everyone anyhow. But we are definitely the only ones who...

If you plan on using them fairly quickly, you could just make refrigerator pickles and not bother with the canning, and those could certainly be crisper. I don't know specifics (maybe someone else does?) but in my experience a batch of fridge pickles is good for maybe a month or so.