I’ve used this simple method to polish stainless steel for years now. Maybe it’s so simple that it doesn’t need telling. Maybe you already know this trick, BUT just in case you didn’t… The trick to polishing stainless steel is VINEGAR! If I have a pot I’ve ruined or if my Berkey water filter is…
Procrastination, people. Procrastination is what does THIS. One minute you’re innocently sunning at the pool, and the next—BAM! You’re next to a lobster that kind of resembles your boyfriend. All because you procrastinated making the sunscreen. (And also because he didn’t warn you how fair he was and *technically* also because he didn’t wear a…
What do you do with biscuits that have suddenly gone stale overnight, but you still want to enjoy their yummy goodness? Make bread pudding if course! Bread pudding can be made either sweet or savory and dressed up with all sorts of add-ons—whatever you can imagine. The base is the same: milk and eggs and…
This year, I’ve become a chicken pot pie lover. I mean, who doesn’t love chicken pot pie, really? But I feel like my chicken pot pie skills have finally matured into consistent, wonderful chicken-ie, vegetable-ie, creamy-saucy, flaky-buttery-crust goodness. I have my friend Shaye to thank for this obsession. Her flaky butter pie crust changed my…
The hardest part about getting a divorce is people care about you. People care about you for different reasons. Some people care out of curiosity. Some people mourn for you. Some people worry. Some people pray. But the hardest part is that they care at all. Because then you wonder what they’re thinking. What are…
Watching birth videos always makes me cry. Maybe I’ll be able to handle myself one day. Hopefully. Maybe. But then again maybe not. I just finished watching the birth video in this post, and mom’s reaction just had me in tears. Joyful tears, but tears none the less. Sometimes it gets really bad when I’m…