Lifestyle, food and health articles
What the heck are the “dog days” of summer and where did that term originate? Well, avid readers, I am not only paid exorbitant amounts of money to write these blogs, I am also expected to do a bit of research too. The term comes …
George and Martha were in no mood to host yet another Fourth of July barbecue at their suburban Virginia home they liked to call Mount Vermin (when they first moved in they had a slight mouse problem and the humorous name stuck). The patriotic couple …
You’ve all heard the stories, right? From the fooler or foolee that executed or was victimized by the ultimate April Fool’s joke. Hell, it was only a year ago that I regaled readers of this blog about my wife and her mother “fooling” me into …
For this blog post I was asked by the powers that be, aka “the Man,” (who in this case is a very pleasant woman named Melody)…anyway, I was asked by Melody to highlight MagicKitchen.com’s special seasonal deals that are located here http://www.magickitchen.com/seasonal-special-deals.html. However, she gave …
Yes, devoted reader, it’s time to set yourself up for failure once again by making a non-specific (eat healthier) and unattainable (cut out ALL junk food) New Year’s resolution. Those two reasons, setting broad and impossible to achieve goals, are why 92% of all resolutions …
There’s a reason two of the more popular kitchen clichés involve the word “heat” (“If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen” and “That’s taking the heat out of a hot kitchen”). And that reason is because it can get frickin’ hot …
There’s a commonly held belief…rule, really… held by surfers that one should never eat shark. It’s a karma kinda thing…why tempt fate by eating what might someday eat you out there on the waves. However, the vast majority of us do not surf, therefore, we …
There are lot of strange holidays, and this is one of our favorites. Celebrate your klutziness! A klutz is someone who is clumsy, which can be truly dangerous in the kitchen. Here are a few true kitchen disaster stories to celebrate the day. If you’re …
Imagine this: you glance into your freezer and are unable to locate your next delectable MagicKitchen.com meal. You then simply place your order online, wait a few seconds, and voila, your meal materializes in front of your eyes on your transporter platform (which could be …
Hello there, it’s your reporter in the field, (literally, I’m in a field in Wisconsin) Maybelle the dairy cow, here to inform the astute and awesome readers of this blog that June is National Dairy Month. Yeah, I know, cows don’t normally write blog posts, …