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This week, Rachel Ray’s TV show featured a kitchen make over for some lucky viewer who wanted their boring white kitchen to look just like the one on Rachel Ray’s TV set — and on a budget no less! 
Watch it now. the segment is called ‘I Want Rachel Ray’s Kitchen’)
Well they succeeded, in part because of [more...]

Isn’t it nice to know that there are little things you can do that make a big difference? 
Well, the Bellefontaine Ohio Kiwanis Club’s Annual Pancake Breakfast did just that.  What could have been a significant contribution to a land fill (all those disposable plates and forks) turned out to be just the opposite.  They yielded [more...]

I’d like to take a minute to welcome my sister-in-law, Marie Nicholas, as one of our new guest bloggers.  Marie lives in Hudson, Ohio (outside of Cleveland) and is responsible for buying wine for the 300 Giant Eagle grocery stores in the Cleveland area.
At the moment, her job is quite time consuming but she has [more...]

Do you know what a cat’s tongue and a sharp knife have in common?  They both feel the same. That’s how you know your knife is properly sharpened.
This was one of the many tips I picked up from attending a cooking class focusing on kitchen knives and proper cutting techniques instructed by Chef Carrie Walters of [more...]

I belong to a group of women who get together once a month to socialize.  We all work and sometimes a little business exchange might come out of it, but mostly we just talk.
We usually go to a restaurant or meet at someone’s home, which is what we did this month, but with a little twist — we [more...]