Well, I should elaborate, this isn’t exactly a technique for browning meat. Our family has been on a chili kick lately, Cincinnati chili to be exact. My personal taste for this type of chili is for very fine chunks of ground beef or turkey. To date I have always just thrown the meat in a [...]

I bought a bag of cherries from the store the other day. I thought it would be a good snack for the kids during a little picnic. I went to the drawer for a combination tool that minces garlic and pits cherries. I can state firmly that this tool is horrible. The pitting portion of [...]

OK. You think this is obvious right? Actually, my mother showed me how to peel a banana just last year. Apparently Mark Summer told her how to peel a banana. So… what is the secret? Peel it from the bottom instead of the stem end. Mark was kidding around with my mom as she struggled [...]