Cooking
Product reviews: Bunn coffee maker
Bunn makes a fabulous coffee maker. I received one as a gift in 1978 and kept it until autumn of 2007. I can't say I used it all that time. The significant other thought his coffee maker was the best ever made so I put mine away for about ten years. Got it out again when I needed it and it worked just fine. Considering storage time, that's almost twenty years of coffee making. In warm weather m...read more
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Salad dressings come in a wide variety of options. You can get low fat and even fat free varietie...read more
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Salads may be deceptive. A mix of greens, crunchy vegetables, and maybe some lean meat is great....read more
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Looking at that grenade-of-a-fruit, with its rough skin and spiny, green top can easily scare off the uneasy fruit cutter. But ...read more
by Betsy Young
Southern salads are supreme. Wednesday night prayer meetings, Saturday afternoon BBQ's, Friday night after the game, lunchbox d...read more
by Gary Erb
Sage is somewhat of a miracle herb' with many, many beneficial uses. The sage plant is extremely valuable as a cooking herb and...read more
by Rex Trulove
There are easily as many venison recipes as there are for beef, and indeed many beef recipes were actually converted from recip...read more




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