Suddenly, your ice cream maker rebels and quits working. Maybe it started well, and has just been churning for the past 2 hours and now all you have in the bowl is a soupy mixture. Of course it had to be on the day you are hosting the annual family meet-up, and you had spent…
America’s Test Kitchen is a popular half hour cooking show that airs in the US and Canada. Its is affiliated to the well-known Cooks Illustrated magazine. It is also hosted mainly by Chad Kimball, the editor-in-chief of Cooks Illustrated. Like many other TV shows, during the course of the show, you are walked through the…
You plan a picnic or maybe its someone’s birthday and your younger kids insist on being a part of the preparation. How do you tell them that, contrary to what many cartoons show, fire is really REALLY hot and can hurt badly, or that you cant stop a whirring blade with your bare hands like…
Lets’ face it, going camping, you want to experience the relative calm of the woods, and ‘disconnect’ from the bustle of towns. This means you probably won’t be really interested in having to find electrical outlets with which to power some appliances. In the world of today, this doesn’t stop you from doing a number…
‘What the heck is vegan ice cream?’ I can hear you say. Well, vegans will not use or consume anything that involves the use of animal products in its preparation. Fur, leather, silk or wool in clothes, seafood, poultry, dairy, honey; they don’t want ANY of that. Other people want to try vegan ice cream…