Icy cold popsicles can be a welcome addition to summer gatherings, even more so if you make them yourself in festive colors and interesting flavors. Popsicle-making is a simple endeavor, but the range of equipment options for making them is extensive. Here, we guide you through store-bought and DIY ice-pop-making options.
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If you feel like you're in a cheese rut, here are five easy upgrades that will get you going again. With tips for cheddar, Swiss, provolone, gouda, and chèvre.
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Our kitchen design/gear contributor Amanda Clarke recently gave tips on squeezing space out of your fridge, but here's another handy guide that tells you where and how to store all the fruits and veggies you bring home from the grocery store....
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This time of year has a way of testing (and overcoming) the capacity of even large refrigerators. Opening the door, out comes a bottle of mustard and a head of lettuce, and a slippery little pouch of baby carrots. Using your crisper drawer as your starting point, you can alleviate some of the clutter, freeing up valuable space for cream cheese loaf and leftover roast beast.
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From Curb Your Enthusiasm, Larry David's technique for dealing with people talking on their cellphones in restaurants. (video)...
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I am a master at getting invited to other people's Thanksgivings. Here's my 10-step moocher's guide to getting your own invite, practically guaranteed to land you at least one invitation you'd actually accept.
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Not Martha shows you how to make crawly spider cakes for Halloween using various kinds of Pocky, snack cakes, sugar eyes and chocolate sprinkles. Spiders will never again look as freakishly adorable or taste as sweet....
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Learn how to make a bacon costume. All you need is foam, some big plastic bags, stick pins, spray paint in various baconesque colors, a hot-glue gun, Velcro fastener tape, and a burning love for bacon. [via Make]...
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Food blogger
cia_b (
Writing With My Mouth Full) and egg expert
George Weld (Egg, in Brooklyn) show you how to
scramble eggs perfectly. With tips and tricks.
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