Posts Tagged ‘cooking’

9 Reasons Cooking Advice Belongs on a Productivity Blog

There are plenty of obvious topics for a blog focused on making your life easier: time management tips, career advice and even a little personal finance information. But cooking advice doesn’t immediately come to mind. Considering how much time we each spend daily on eating — let alone eating healthily and cheaply — I think a little cooking advice could be very productive, and I’ve got nine good… » Continue

April 15 2008 | By Thursday | Tagged: cooking, health, meal planning, nutrition, personal finance, scheduling | 12 comments»

Motivational Tips to Hack Your Day

Admittedly most of struggle with increasing workloads. Getting through a regular day isn’t as straight forward anymore as it was maybe ten years ago. With the increased pressures we face every day, it only makes sense to find ways that help us hack our days to keep some sort of mental balance.

The sooner we take back control, the more we can eventually relax and enjoy life.

A definition of “hack”… » Continue

February 15 2008 | By Monika | Tagged: chores, cleaning, cooking, dayhack, household, Lifehack, organization, Productivity | 12 comments»

How To Make A Soda Can Stove

Here’s a great camping hack to use two aluminum beverage cans to make a small and portable 15 minute stove.

It’s small, so uses would be limited. Outside of small meats and eggs etc, how about Absynth and sugar?

Things You’ll Need

2 aluminum cans, for example, soft drink cans, beer cans; they must be in good condition, with no dents
Push pin (a pin with a plastic head)
Hammer (small)-optional
Sharp knife

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June 7 2007 | By Craig | Tagged: cooking | 4 comments»

20 Household Tips…or Myths?

Beryl Birch, editor of Power Yoga, recently published 20 interesting daily household tips. The reason I included “myths” in the title is that some of these tips seem too good to be true:

To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.
To easily remove burnt-on food from your skillet, simply add a drop or two of dish soap and enough water to cover bottom of

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January 24 2007 | By Kyle | Tagged: cooking, household, kitchen, tips | 6 comments»

Making the Most of Your Grocery Dollar

Food prices are on the rise again.

After the relative stability of the last ten years, this past November (latest finalized data analysis I could find) packaged food makers began increasing prices last year to cover the rising cost of raw ingredients.

Specific examples include:

Oscar Mayer lunch meats
Capri Sun juice pouches
Wheat Thin crackers
Fig Newtons
Jolly Ranchers
Twislers
Natures Own breads
Sunbeam breads
many others.

Here are a few proactive steps you can take to increase the shelf-life of… » Continue

September 5 2006 | By Reginald | Tagged: budgeting, cooking, food | 4 comments»

How to cook a great steak

Bruce Cole at Saute Wednesday has a quick tips on how to cook a steak. Bruce’s method is using slow and medium heat, which is a safer way to cook a good steak. The method that catches my eye is how he starts to cook the steak’s narrow side first - by standing it with tongs or something. He ensures this will render some of the beef fat:

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March 6 2006 | By Leon | Tagged: cooking, Lifestyle | 7 comments»

Cooking 101: 20 Lessons to kick start your cooking skill

Cooking is not easy - for me as least. I can cook but only some very basic stuff. Found out a good site that can get me started on cooking something good - which is azcentral.com on Cooking 101. There are 20 lessons, from how to boil water, to how to bake a cake and a pie. This is a very good location to learn, no matter what ages you… » Continue

September 24 2005 | By Leon | Tagged: cooking, food, tutorial | 23 comments»