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Take a walk through any neighborhood and you're likely to smell blooming lilacs, freshly cut grass, apple blossoms and - if you're out around meal times - the enticing smell of a charcoal grill. Although it's tempting to just get things fired up, and many grills have already been...

The Mother's Day holiday has been celebrated for more than 100 years. An interesting fact about this holiday is that Anna Jarvis (the lady who came up with the idea for Mother's Day) later criticized it and wanted the holiday recalled. Jarvis felt the greeting card companies and flower...

Even though there are numerous ways to use up leftovers, as well as the option of freezing them, there still comes a time when even the most fabulous recipe is no longer appealing and the leftovers end up in the trash. So after a week of eating leftover ham, it was time to break out...

At one time in history, our European ancestors likely depended largely on yeast as a leavener. Many of our leavened baked goods today depend on a different leavener, called chemical leaveners, the primary one being baking soda. Baking soda is a salt known as sodium bicarbonate. In...