When you use your laptop as a cookbook, its surfaces need to be covered. Here are three ways to get the job done.
SHOPPING AROUND | When you use your tablet or laptop as a cookbook, calling up recipes and scrolling back and forth between ingredients and instruction, it’s only a matter time before something gloppy on your fingers winds up stuck to its surface.
Computers working as cookbooks need to be protected, which is how I came to discover the Chef’s Sleeve, a clear, disposable (yet reusable) envelope for the iPad that does not interfere with touch screen operation. Great as it is, the Chef’s Sleeve isn’t all that easy to come by in Canada. When you do find it, as I did at Kitchen Stuff Plus, it is a titch pricey when you consider there’s a less expensive, if not as sexy, alternative available in most grocery stores. Read more
3 Ways To Help The Health Of the Planet
/0 Comments/in Cleaning & Maintenance, Culture & Leisure, HOME, View All Home Stories /by EditorYou can make a difference in the health and well being of our planet by changing just one thing.
Two Ways To Have Books Shipped For Free
/5 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Culture & Leisure /by EditorWow! Finally a website where some third party sellers offer free shipping for their used books online—plus, how to get free shipping on new book orders under $25.
FREE IS GOOD | While both Indigo.ca and Amazon.ca offer free shipping on the books you purchase through their companies when you spend a minimum $25, the same is not true for used books they list that are offered by third party sellers. These books always come with an added shipping cost, making what might look like a steal of a deal anything but once these extra charges are tacked on. Read more
The Coolest Way To Tour Vancouver
/2 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Culture & Leisure, Go Here Now, TRAVEL, View All Travel Stories /by EditorMany of the West Coast’s most spectacular homes are on the water. To see them, you should be too.
TRAVEL ADVISORY | West Vancouver is hardly Amalfi, but like this picturesque stretch of Mediterranean waterfront in Italy, it does have interesting houses terraced into the rocky coastline, some with cascading, tropical gardens of Babylonian intent. And when the days are sunny and calm like they they will be shortly, we like to rent a (reasonably priced) runabout from Sewell’s Marina in Horseshoe Bay and treat our out-of-town guests to a tour of this gorgeous shoreline in one of Canada’s poshest postal codes. Read more
How To Top Dress Floral Arrangements
/0 Comments/in DECOR & DESIGN, Design, GARDEN, HOME, Home & Garden, View All Garden Stories, View All Home Stories /by EditorTurn ordinary potted plants into miniature landscapes by choosing a soil cover that matches their look. There are lots of toppings to choose from, including aquarium stones, beach glass and even rosebuds.
CREATIVE SOLUTION | Plants potted up for the house are more than just leaves, stems and blossoms. They’re landscapes in miniature, with every aspect of their situation—the pot, the soil cover, the setting—adding to or detracting from the presentation. When I want my indoor plants to look all of a piece, I start by making associations. Read more
How To Make Muffin-Tin Frittatas
/3 Comments/in Easy + Quick = Delicious, FOOD, Food & Drink, View All Food Stories /by EditorSuper easy muffin-tin frittatas let you socialize with brunch guests instead of slaving in the kitchen. (RECIPE)
QUICK & EASY | In a few weeks, I’ll be hosting a post-wedding brunch. I want to serve something eggy, but I don’t want to hang around in my kitchen cooking eggs when I could be kibitzing with our guests. My friend Kerry suggested that to save time and whole lot of stress I might want to make muffin-tin frittatas, either baking them in advance (and rewarming them before serving) or mixing the ingredients ahead of time, plopping them into tins and popping these into the oven when we start to lay out our spread. Read more
3 Ways To Protect Your Computer Screen
/0 Comments/in Goods & Services, HOW-TO KNOW-HOW, View All How-To Stories /by EditorWhen you use your laptop as a cookbook, its surfaces need to be covered. Here are three ways to get the job done.
SHOPPING AROUND | When you use your tablet or laptop as a cookbook, calling up recipes and scrolling back and forth between ingredients and instruction, it’s only a matter time before something gloppy on your fingers winds up stuck to its surface.
Computers working as cookbooks need to be protected, which is how I came to discover the Chef’s Sleeve, a clear, disposable (yet reusable) envelope for the iPad that does not interfere with touch screen operation. Great as it is, the Chef’s Sleeve isn’t all that easy to come by in Canada. When you do find it, as I did at Kitchen Stuff Plus, it is a titch pricey when you consider there’s a less expensive, if not as sexy, alternative available in most grocery stores. Read more
Keep Your Best Clothes In Nonwoven Poly Bags
/2 Comments/in Cleaning & Maintenance, FASHION, Goods & Services, HOME, HOW-TO KNOW-HOW, View All Fashion Stories, View All Home Stories, View All How-To Stories /by EditorWho knew that nonwoven polypropylene could actually protect your best garments from evil clothes-eating moths?
THE FIX | I’ve done a lot of things to rid my home of casemaking clothes moths (CLICK HERE for our Frugalbits how to) but, until recently when I read about it on goop, I didn’t know that a particular material used to make clothing storage containers might actually ward off these hungry insects. According to Gwynnie and, as it turns out, a gaggle of other Internet home-keeping pundits, breathable nonwoven polypropylene, the material found in those ubiquitous grocery shopping bags, may do just that. Read more
Lean In: How To Walk To Build A Better Butt
/6 Comments/in Exercise, FITNESS, Fitness & Health, HOW-TO KNOW-HOW, View All Fitness Stories, View All How-To Stories /by EditorHow sprinter’s mechanics and plain old walking on a treadmill can help you develop the derriere of your dreams.
FIT FOR FREE | Elite athletes know which sport produces the best butt in their biz: it’s sprinting by a mile. A sprinter’s buttocks sits high, round and proud, a position that comes from maximum gluteus development through explosive running done in short bursts of time. Correct sprinting technique results in a long, lean lower body with both thighs and butt in proper proportion. Read more
How To Pick Up U.S. Parcels In Point Bob
/2 Comments/in CANADIAN CONTENT, Goods & Services, Shops & Shopping /by EditorWhy pick up your U.S. parcels in Blaine, when there is a more convenient and practical way to get them.
EASY LIKE THIS | How many times have you tried to order something online only to discover that the company you’re ordering it from doesn’t ship to Canada? In the past, I found a way around this problem by having parcels shipped to Blaine, Washington, and then traipsing over the border to pick them up (CLICK HERE for our story). Now I have an even more expedient way to retrieve them. Read more
Your inspiration for no-bake bird’s nest cookies for Easter
/0 Comments/in Easy + Quick = Delicious, FOOD, Recipes, THE LATEST, Uncategorized, View All Food Stories /by EditorThese chocolate and peanut butter cookies are the easiest thing you’ll make this Easter.
EASY & DELISH | If you’re casting around for an Easter adventure to share with the junior cooks in your life, these quick-made no-bake chocolate-and-peanut butter bird’s nest cookies are a slam dunk.
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