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 Hello Autumn! We are coming into one of my favorite cooking seasons now. Autumn, with all of its delicious flavors and colors.Cooling temperatures also mean that we are not afraid to turn our oven on, and the autumn harvest means that we have an abundance of fresh local vegetables available for us to enjoy!  I do so love the Autumn!   I also love Pot Roasting.  Especially when it means combining tender pork with fresh carrots and cabbage wedges!  This Pot Roasted Pork with Cabbage and carrots is one of my favorite meals to cook when the temperatures start dropping and...

Spy Finds is a regular series that unveils the coolest, under-the-radar products that you haven’t heard of until now. Each product is curated by our editors who want to help you discover cool finds you didn’t know you needed. Caraway, a DTC home goods and cookware company, revealed its first line of bakeware on Tuesday, September 21. Although the collection has barely been out for 24 hours, it’s already back-ordered, with products scheduled to ship in late October. To sweeten the pot, Caraway has already discounted the price of the new collection. Caraway is known for creating colorful ceramic cookware...

Design Academy Eindhoven graduate Ilja Schamle has replaced batteries with living plants in this self-built server system to explore how technology could enter into a symbiotic relationship with nature. Showcased as part of the Missed Your Call graduate exhibition at Milan design week, the project sees renewable energy derived from tomato vines used to run a cloud server, while the heat generated by the computer provides optimal growing temperatures for the vegetables. The Warm Earth system sees tomato plants housed in a server cabinet The self-sufficient system, dubbed Warm Earth, was designed for an apocalyptic future, in which humanity can no...

The Packer game last night sure was good. We watched until half time while we were still in the house. We could see the rain start pouring down at Lambeau Field in Green Bay on the screen. It's only about 30 miles south of us. We figured this would be a good time to gather up our sleeping gear and head on out to the motorhome in the driveway.Because of our bedroom being dismantled, we slept in the motorhome. I preferred getting out there in our jammies while things were still dry and not with the impending storms that were...

Raise your hand if you’re sick of cleaning down your stove and countertops after every meal. Splatter is an annoying and unavoidable part of the cooking process, whether you’re sautéing veggies, stir-frying tofu, or searing a ribeye. We’ve all experienced the arduous task of cleaning up oil and liquids that have splashed out of the pan and onto our kitchen surfaces. However, there is a way to prevent this, and the solution is a splatter guard. Numerous items on the market claim to combat splatter, including vertical guards that completely surround pans and more typical covers that do a fair...