Chickens require a lot of work and loving attention, but with the right know-how you can raise and utilize backyard chickens quite successfully. Here are some pros and cons to consider…
• Backyard Chickens
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Nobody could mistake me for a person who moves quickly. I “run” at a treadmill speed that would never catch a thief, and barely these days, a preschooler on the loose. It took us 3.5 years, until two weeks ago, in fact, to finally put the kid’s toys away. We’ve been “redecorating” the living room for the better part of a year — we’ll probably put the pictures back up in a week or six; please, don’t rush us. Thus, it should surprise nobody that it’s taken me nearly four years to conquer the cake you see here, which sounds even worse if you consider that it was a special request from my own mother, as this was her favorite growing up.
In my defense, in that period of time, I moved apartments, had a kid, wrote a book, and went on a 25-city book tour, all while (mostly) keeping up with this here website and spending a truly horrific amount of time staring slack-jawed social media ahem, maintaining occasional hobbies. But I know the truth, which is that I’ve been intimidated by making it because I felt like I was cooking blind. The Bee Sting Cake (Bienenstich) is a German specialty and while my mother’s parents came over in 1935 and 1936 respectively, the areas once known as German epicenters (the middle of Queens, where my mom was raised, and Yorkville, in the Upper East Side of Manhattan) have now mostly dispersed, and most of the accompanying stores have shuttered. Calls to German bakeries to see if they sold it were almost futile, until I found one in Ridgewood, Queens that sold us a whole one that was rather awful; let’s not speak of it at all. The only thing left to do was go it alone, researching obsessively along the way.
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With their bright colors and futuristic appeal, Dippin’ Dots are a kid favorite at carnivals and beyond, but we’re much more interested in this adult-friendly update: alcoholic Dippin’ Dots! Gizmodo has the full step-by-step instructions for making your own version at home.
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When Jan of Poppytalk realized her table was in need of a makeover, she came up with this surprisingly simple hack to cover up the stains, scuffs and dings on the surface of the table.
• Get a Faux Marble Look
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As we all know, an apple a day keeps the doctor away — and now we have no excuses! This book will have us looking at apples in a whole new way as we work our way through recipes for apple hand pies, crunchy apple-filled salads, apples roasted with chicken, and applicious drinks and cocktails. Get out your paring knives and your vegetable peelers: it’s about to get apple-y up in here.
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4.77 / 5 Stars | 27 Reviews
by STEVE ALDER
“Packed with exotic flavor and spice, this simple chicken soup is an excellent starter to a Thai style dinner.”
Billy and Sally renovated their whole apartment, but it’s the new kitchen, with hickory floors and a soapstone counter, that perhaps makes the biggest impact. Check it out…
• Dramatic Brooklyn Makeover
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Despite the fact that I’m not a vegetarian, I find that most of my tried-and-true favorite cookbooks are about vegetarian cooking, such as Sundays at Moosewood and Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone. While Moosewood and VCE are well-known to most of us, I’m pleased to talk today about a well-respected but still lesser-known cookbook: the award winning The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen by chef, cooking instructor, and author Peter Berley.
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4.24 / 5 Stars | 121 Reviews
by Kara
“Tomatoes, onion, bell pepper, cucumber and garlic are pureed with lemon juice, red wine vinegar and tarragon and chilled for a refreshing cold soup.”
This minimalist kitchen really benefits from the absolutely striking raw wood countertop. So unique and beautiful. I really can’t take my eyes off it.
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