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15 Tips for a Perfect Summer Dinner Party

15 Tips for a Perfect Summer Dinner Party

Image Source There’s a lot to be said for a good old fashioned dinner party – it never goes out of style! Whether you want to introduce people you know, or just find an excuse to get all your friends together again, here are my 

Lose weight and feel great (even at middle age!)

Lose weight and feel great (even at middle age!)

Weight loss – and that healthy, glowing, energetic I-can-take-on-the-world feeling that comes with being happy and healthy – doesn’t have to be a wistful thought, no matter what age you might be. While it’s certainly easier to lose, and keep off, weight when you’re younger, 

Matching Beer with Food

Matching Beer with Food

Guest post by Dain Turner Ask anyone what food beer goes good with and 99% of the time you’ll get pizza as the answer, but there are really a lot of other foods that go well with beer, depending on what type of beer you’re 

Kitchen Organization Beneficial to Better Cooking

Kitchen Organization Beneficial to Better Cooking

Having the proper setup in your kitchen can be beneficial to cooking. Looking around for a pot and fumbling to find a particular pan can be frustrating. There are ways to prevent these annoyances from happening. Becoming organized is the first step, and here are 

Decorating ideas for your Fourth of July party

Decorating ideas for your Fourth of July party

Grilled steaks are often the menu item of choice on the Fourth of July. However, along with the grilled steaks come the party decorations. If you are planning a Fourth of July party, you will need decorations to go along with those grilled steaks you 

Discover yesterday’s food today

Discover yesterday’s food today

Guest blog by Dain Turner Did you know your refrigerator leftovers could be used for more than growing mold? Unless you’re in the penicillin business, a lot of what you have could be going to waste. With the rising cost of food (up almost 800% 

A World Tour of Wedding Cocktails

A World Tour of Wedding Cocktails

Most of us want to have a wedding that reflects who we are. Travel lovers might want to bring out their traveling passion and share it with all of their guests on their special day through some worldwide yummy beverages! Ideally I’m sure you’d rather 

Celebrity Gifts – A Timeline

Celebrity Gifts – A Timeline

It’s fair to say that nobody gives and receives gifts quite like celebrities. First of all they’ve usually got a lot of spare cash lying around, so spending $600,000 dollars on a rocking horse seems like a normal thing to do, even if it is 

Absurd Energy Fixes

Absurd Energy Fixes

Guest Post The modern world moves at a fast pace––too fast, if you ask me––and to get up in the morning, and then keep up with the never-ending demands of work, school, family, and a social life, it takes a lot of energy. This, of 

Pre-Diabetes – Are you susceptible? Discover how to prevent it from developing into type 2 diabetes.

Pre-Diabetes – Are you susceptible? Discover how to prevent it from developing into type 2 diabetes.

Pre-diabetes means you probably have higher than normal blood-sugar levels but, fortunately, not high enough to be classed as being diabetic. However it does mean that you are susceptible to developing type 2 diabetes and heart disease if you do nothing about it. Unfortunately, more