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November 18, 2009

Earlier this month, Carl E. Stachowski of Sun City Center was looking for a Golden Goodie Bars recipe that uses Bisquick mix, dark brown sugar and coconut flakes in a 9-by-13 baking pan. The cookies are cut into squares after cooling, and then coated with powdered sugar. ...more

March 29, 2009

What do do with all those Meyer lemons? Here are a few ideas. ...more

November 14, 2008

A garden pest chewed my pineapple plant, and the almost-ripe pineapple fell off the stem. How can it finish ripening? ...more

August 20, 2008

The view from the balcony of Room 317 stretches in a spectacular and unencumbered semicircle toward forever. This, as any first-year naval cadet (or visitor to www.boatsafe.com) can tell you, amounts to a glorious optical illusion. ...more

July 27, 2008

Federal officials said Friday that Imperial Sugar Co. should face fines of more than $8.7 million for violations at two plants, including a Georgia facility where an explosion killed 13 people. ...more

July 26, 2008

If I had to just choose one thing, my "killer app" in the kitchen, it would be salt. It doesn't matter what cuisine I'm cooking, salt is the basis of flavor in a savory dish. Call me a salt snob, but I stay away from the regular table salt. The granules are way too fine, the anti-caking agent just sounds gross, and added iodine is sooooo 1920s. ...more

June 3, 2008