For home canning, two distinct methods are generally used: 1. Cooking in a saucepan and then transferring the article to the sterilized cans, and 2. Cooking the product in the jar in which it is to be stored. Cooking in the oven is sometimes given as a third way of home canning, but the food • Read More »
Baking is cooking in confined heat in the oven. Examples: Bread, cake, meat. This method when applied to meat is commonly called roasting. Before baking, see that the oven is clean and heated to the desired temperature. Boiling is cooking by immersion in water at 212° P. Examples: Potatoes, cabbage, macaroni. Braising is a combination • Read More »
Are you confused about the difference between video marketing and advertising? Don’t worry about it, most people are. Despite being involved with broadcast and video production for over eleven years I still get confused and need to think about it. There are still grey areas and huge overlaps and these are only becoming less clear • Read More »
Putting your house in order is one thing. Keeping it in order is another. Years ago, there was a theory that every house, no matter how well kept, how frequently swept and scrubbed, has to be turned upside down and out by the roots twice a year for the spring and fall cleaning. At those • Read More »
I am not one easily rattled. When I am rattled, look out for anything can happen. For the most part, I try to stay calm, cool and collected. Then there are times when I have had enough and I am not going to take it anymore. When I am rattled about something, it is not • Read More »
Home remodeling and home additions are almost analogous to each other in context. However, there is a vast difference between the two. Additions, in home improvement, pertain to the task of building supplementary features or outbuildings for an existing house. On the other hand, remodeling is simply the task of redecorating a certain part of • Read More »
Architecture is the harmonious combination in a structure of both utility and beauty. The term utility means the function, or purpose, of a building. The uses of buildings are many and various, and the considerations taken into account in their planning, are therefore diverse and complex. So, a hospital needs to be planned to give • Read More »
Nesting boxes for the smaller birds should be made with entrances so small that gray squirrels can’t get in. Sparrows may be kept out of the wrens‘ nesting boxes by making the entrance not over one inch in diameter. They may be discouraged from building in other nesting boxes by taking the eggs, which involves • Read More »
People in business are constantly engaged in negotiating: with existing and prospective customers; with suppliers and other vendors; and, with others within their own organizations. Those who are successful in business are quite often those who have developed the skill set necessary to become effective negotiators. Good negotiators recognize that a successful negotiation is about • Read More »
Grabbing that Muffin on the way to work may be as, routine to you by now as brushing your teeth in the morning. However unconscious habits like these are difficult to break and can be detrimental to your weight loss efforts, especially if they have gone unchecked for a number of years! Actions really do • Read More »