Summertime is a great time to start, or rekindle, your interest in home preserving.
I’ve made jam and canned a variety of foods. It is not difficult, but like many other things, it will work best with the right tools and some understanding of why certain steps are necessary to the process.
If you want to teach [...]
Slow cookers are just as popular today as ever. Everything from a hot breakfast to a hot toddy can be made in a slow cooker. You can almost set it and forget it, as that wonderful aroma of home cooking drifts through your house. Then get the bowls ready to serve.
Use the latest slow cooker [...]
In college in the 1970s I had a popcorn popper very similar to this Presto PopLite. IMO, hot air popcorn is better than other types because it is fluffier, has no extra oil and because I control the flavorings if any.
It did not take me long to get used to plain hot air popcorn. Get [...]
Scientists have been looking into SAD, Seasonal Affective Disorder, for more than 20 years. One of the treatments is to use lighting that produces a spectrum of wave lengths, similar to what the sun produces naturally. These lights are also called light therapy lights.
Sunlight therapy lamps to alleviate SAD have their fans among people who [...]
