Author: Tessie

• Tessie’s Kitchen Basics: Seasoning a Cast Iron Pan

  My kitchen is driving me nuts. I don’t have a lot of space in there and storage space is at a real premium. I’d love to have a hanging rack for my pots and pans, but there’s no way I could have one of those in the space we’re in now. So instead, I have a cabinet stacked full with different pots and pans. The clutter is driving me crazy! Can’t there just [...]

• Creating a Basic Oatmeal Breakfast Cake (Choose Your Own Flavor)

  This weekend has been kinda slow. Usually, whether it’s a good thing or a bad thing, when things are slow I think about food. I had decided sometime earlier in the week that I wanted to make some kind of breakfast cake with oatmeal and wheat flour this weekend. Oatmeal is one of those ingredients that I would love to incorporate more often. It’s a heart healthy grain and the extra fiber is very healthy for [...]

• Eyelash Curler Tips: Avoid “The Chop”

  Eyelash curlers are weird little things, but lots of girls swear by them. You can even get a diploma in eyelash perming! Many friends have recommended them to me because I have really puny eyelashes and it’s hard to find a way to make them even slightly noticeable. I finally bought one a couple of months ago at a fellow NSW’s urging. I wasn’t really impressed because I couldn’t get a curl. I put it [...]

• Household Uses for Butter (the end of “The Butter Trilogy”)

  ok. I’ve almost finished talking about butter. LOL! I seriously don’t think about it as often as it must seem! I figured that since we’d talked so much about it, I should just make a “butter trilogy”. Today’s article is very Non-Stepfordian… I’m going to talk about butter’s household uses.
  I’m no Paula Deen, believe me. LOVE the woman. Absolutely LOVE her cooking, but it’s all so rich! Not that I [...]