Drink Recipes for the Recession

Kitchen Cabinet Hardware and How Great Companies Are Made
As I stated in my guide to renovating your kitchen, splurging on good quality kitchen cabinets is usually a good idea when it comes to redesigning your home kitchen (especially if you're looking to stay in your home for long term).  High quality kitchen cabinets are usually composed of solid wood cabinet faces (e.g., maple), full plywood box construction, dovetail drawers, etc

Cheap and Easy DIY Tips to Clean Your Home
(The following is a guest post from Adrienne Carlson; who regularly writes on the topic of criminal justice.  See Adrienne's related article on DIY ways to protect your home.)Your home is probably the greatest asset you own, and when you let it

How To Find, Cook, and Identify Wild Mushrooms
(Photo: wild picked Chanterelle mushrooms from New Jersey)As I've suggested in a recent post, I'm a dyed in the wool country man, but I live a few minutes outside of the largest city in the US!  You must be thinking: how paradoxical that this guy loves nature yet lives so close to a major urban area?  Well the truth of the

Guide to Cured Italian Meats: Salumi
(Photo: Nonno's pigs on his working farm in Calabria)One of the highlights of my summer trips to Calabria as a small child included spending time on my grandfather's working farm.  Nonno Vincenzo's farm was a 10 minute drive north of the small

How to Prepare Your Garden for Winter: 5 Tips
We've had a cold and wet summer in the Northeast this year, so I'm not sure what the Fall and Winter seasons will bring us in terms of temperature, snow, wind, and rain.  However, I do know that a good looking garden (including grass, shrubs, and flowers) starts as soon as everything begins to die or go dormant.  Here are some basic Fall gardening tips that will make your green space look great come the first couple of warm days in the Spri