Category Archives: Best Practices

Square Foot Gardening

Great approach to a classic method of gardening using limited space and limited funds. I love the guy’s blog title as well! FrugalDad: How To Build A Square Foot Garden

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Simple Breaded Chicken

There are a lot of options for using breaded chicken in a variety of different styles of cuisine. Here’s a blogger who explains the process in simple terms. This is just how we do it in the restaurant business. How … Continue reading

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Wine Survival Guide

Some excellent tips for surviving (or recovering from) some annoying wine pitfalls. Seven Wine Emergencies and How To Fix Them In A Pinch Thanks to Snooth.com for this timely set of tips!

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Saving Money By Growing Your Own

This is a topic I am planning to visit in more detail later, but for now, check out what this blogger has to say about easy ways to save by gardening!

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Ovoids In The Raw

Raw Eggs. What ingredient, other than raw chicken, inspires such trepidation in the hearts of cooks and diners everywhere? And yet, how many culinary delights is one missing if one avoids these often-misunderstood ovoids? Well you need miss them no … Continue reading

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Kitchen Monki is no Monki Business

Well I’ve stumbled across a new tool for storing and sharing recipes, planning menus and meals, and preparing shopping lists. It’s called Kitchen Monki and it bills itself as the “ultimate kitchen utensil”. That moniker might be right on the … Continue reading

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Menu Planning and Food Budgeting

We foodies all know we go nuts in the grocery store. Like Mozart, we walk through the produce and fresh meats and seafood departments and we start composing culinary symphonies in our heads, and the next thing you know, we’ve … Continue reading

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