It used to be that people would go to standalone department stores to shop. Call them the old downtown department stores, if you will. Some of these most likely still exist in some of the larger cities. After hours of walking around in these cavernous multi-floor stores, people naturally became hungry. It was the custom that most stores had some sort of cafeteria available where people could stop their empty stomach from talking back, rest their weary feet and most likely, to the store owner’s delight, keep them in the store. In each cafeteria, no matter how average all the other food was, there was usually one specialty that became a must for every shopping trip. This recipe is one of the musts served at the old mid-west Famous-Barr department stores.
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Cooking Utensils – Very Basic – Item 1 – Chef’s Knife
12/05/2009Assuming you already have a fork, spoon, knife, plates, some kind of frying pan and a basic pot of some sort, there are only 3 things that a real cook needs. This is the first. See other posts for items 2 (cutting board) and 3 (knife sharpener).
Basic Italian tomato sauce – marinara
11/29/2009Basic tomato sauce marinara
Simple, fast, inexpensive and tastes better than just about anything that can be purchased. A thick rich flavorful tomato sauce that forms the basis of other things Italian. Once you’ve made the sauce here’s a great use for it, lasagna. Although the sauce itself is so good by itself, you’ll need to stop yourself from eating it straight out of the pot.
Shampoo – Not the movie
02/16/2009Spent the weekend shampooing about 1000 sq. ft. of old carpeting. At the end concluded that it didn’t need shampoo. It needed new flooring.
I will say that the Rug Doctor kicked butt. Buy some extra shampoo however, because it’s primary job seems to be to put out and suck back gallons of soapy water on the carpet. About 4 gallons in 10 minutes. But it’s one kickin’ shampooer. Rented from Loew’s.
This is interesting VI (WordPress settings general)
02/14/2009I lied when I said I needed a nap. Setting time, etc., was too simple so I had to write it here. Settings/General on the left hand frame at the bottom. Change away. I also changed the blog name. And yes, it was set to GMT or UTC. Your hard part will be figuring out your offset in hours from GMT. Good luck.
This is interesting V (WordPress date/time)
02/14/2009Last entry for today. I need a nap. My next goal is to figure out why GMT seems to be set as my time?
This is interesting III (WordPress books)
02/12/2009As noted below this is my first planned task after the initial install. Therefore, found a book. Well actually found two books. Well actually found more than two books on Amazon for WordPress.
This is interesting II (second WordPress blog … with good advice)
02/12/2009Discouraging at this point. Even though the install was surprisingly simple, I lost my first blog. Couldn’t find the spell checker for the first blog, then found it when I went to edit the blog for some obvious typos. And then it’s gone? I’m determined now. If I find the first one (which is doubtful), you’ll see that my first action would have been to find on Amazon a WordPress For Dummies book. I’m not proud. Now, after losing my first blog, I know I was correct in needing that help.
Ain't Found A Good Title Blog 
This Is Interesting VII (WordPress Comments)
11/29/2009Well it’s been about 9 months since I last touched this blog. I would’ve come back sooner if I had known people (the term is used loosely here) had actually left comments. Well it turns out I never knew I was receiving about 2 dozen comments a month. Was I surprised and slightly happy!
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