Entries from August 2008

August 19, 2008

Get a Whiff of This

If you’re ever looking for proof that your housekeeping skills are not that bad, check out this entertaining British show, How Clean is Your House?  Messy houses and their owners are turned into the show for an “Extreme Home Cleanover.”  Instead of tearing down a house and building a new one [...]

August 18, 2008

A wine by any other name tastes . . . pretty much the same

In one of my cookbooks, the authors caution against using cheap wine in your cooking, saying that the differences between higher and lower qualities of wine become more pronounced as the wine cooks down.  As a result, I’ve usually reserved cooking with wine for the occasional special dinner.  Lately, though, I’ve become antsy, and wondered [...]