How to Select Wine

If you are at the wine store and want to purchase something to put in your new wine cooler what do you do when all you have to go by is the label? The Wall Street Journal recently wrote a wonder guide on what a wine label can tell you. I find the follow tips …

Who knew?

Clean your dishwasher with Lemonade Kool-Aid?  According to the folks at Life-Hacker, running your empty dishwasher with a Lemonade Kool-Aid packet in the detergent cup will clean lime deposits and iron stains. Don't try using other flavors, it's the citric acid in the Lemonade that attacks the stains. I've heard that Tang works too but I …

Greener Gifting from Kitchen Design Notes

With Black Friday quickly approaching I thought I'd share a post from Laurie at Kitchen Design Notes. She writes about the importance of being mindful this Holiday Season of the waste our wrapped gifts can create.  If each American family wrapped just three presents in recyclable materials, we would save enough paper to cover 45,000 football …