Memorial Day. July 4th. Labor Day. Heck, maybe even Thanksgiving if the weather is exceptionally balmy. In America, holiday weekends mean just one thing: time to grill! After all, It’s just not a party unless there’s meat sizzling over charcoal. But anyone can grill. It’s rarer to find someone who can grill like a…

“You are what you eat.” We’ve all heard it a thousand times before. So when my mom showed up at my house over the weekend with a bunch of bananas, I should have known there was a good reason. “Hey, Mom. What’s with the bananas?” “Well, kiddo, you told me you had a rough week, and…

I love eating rice and would cook and eat rice nearly everyday. Risotto is a classic Italian cuisine, well accepted by people with different cultural backgrounds around the world. Not to mention, I love its rich and creamy texture going extremely well with a variety of vegetables or meats. The traditional way of cooking…

After retiring from teaching in school, I’ve been a stay-at-home mother and a home cook for many years, developed a deeper love of cooking for the family. When Leon, my dear son, asked me if I’d like to guest post on Lifehack, I felt honored and anxious at the same time. Lifehack is one of the…

Whether you work outside the house or stay at home full-time, the toughest part of the day is the same: those frantic early evening hours when there are mouths to feed, homework to do, and cranky kids to handle. The trick is to streamline your to-do’s so you can feel calmer and focus on what counts – spending time with your family. Here’s how.

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…