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This is the washing machine that first tweaked my interest in washing machines.  The Westinghouse FL from the early to mid 50’s is my very favorite of all time washers.   My favorite Aunt had a Westinghouse FL and dryer matched set exactly like the machine on the left in this ad.  The...

I used to have a subscription to Hemmings Classic Cars and I receive daily emails from them for their auctions of classic cars. In the link below is a listing from Hemmings Motor News for a car identical to the car that my father was driving when he lost his life in 1962. It was one of the...

This Easter we had my brother and his girlfriend for Easter Dinner at our house. Jeanne doesn’t eat beef or pork and I’d planned on having Lasagna for dinner, which I usually make with Italian Sausage. So I set out to find a recipe for making Italian Sausage from ground turkey and the attached...

I bake something for our dessert every weekend, and this week I tried an “experimentation”. I had half of an 8 oz package of cream cheese left over, so when I went grocery shopping on Tuesday I bought another 8 oz. package of cream cheese and a pint of whipping cream. I had planned on making a...

A while back on another thread about baking bread our friend and member from Canada, Petek suggested using dry powdered milk when baking homemade bread.  This last Wednesday I baked a loaf of Whole Wheat bread using 1/4 cup of powdered non fat milk and 1 1/3 cups water instead of my usual 2/3...

Last night I kept thinking that it would be nice to have an Apple Pie for the weekend.  I had some extra apples, so I took them out of the  fridge before we went to bed so they’d be at room temperature by the morning.   This morning it only took me 30 mins to peel, core and slice the apples...

I baked a dozen Hamburger Buns this afternoon. I will use two tonight for our dinner and freeze the rest for use later. They freeze very well, just be sure to wrap in plastic wrap and place in a large ziplock bag. Hamburger or Hot Dog Buns makes 1...

Has anyone else noticed that the website has been very slow responding off and on for the last couple of days? Several times I have had to wait almost two minutes for a page to load. It just took almost 3 mins to load this page so I could create a new thread. Eddie

Yesterday I created a document on Pages, my iPad word processing app. When I attempted to print it I just got a blank page. I checked the ink level and thee black ink level was almost gone. I had a replacement cartridge o hand and replaced the black ink. Still no go, blank pages. I checked...

I made some Whole Wheat Dinner rolls this afternoon from the recipe in the link below, from the Jenny Can Cook website. If you’ve never run across her website its really great. All of her recipes come out great and are very easy too. I’ve been using my Kitchenaid 5 speed hand mixer with the...

As some of you may know I live in a HOA and I’m the president of the board. Our complex has 20 units on a lovely property with 40 plus trees, including Sycamore’s, Liquid Ambers and Redwoods. Trees can cause sewer blockages, especially during times of drought when the roots are starved for...

Yesterday marked 5 weeks since I got my new GE JB625DKWW electric stove delivered and installed. I’ve put it through its paces every day since then and I’m happy to say the it has met or exceeded my expectations in every way. First of all its so easy to keep the ceramic cook top clean and...

Last Friday I got all wild and crazy and cleaned the oven, after 16 months of neglect. It really wasn’t that dirty and it only took me 45 mins from start to finish, even with a 20 wait time for the Easy Off to do its thing, However, when I was wiping out the oven I noticed that on the right...

I baked a Raspberry Pie this morning for our weekend treat using frozen raspberries. Raspberry Pie The night before I placed 4 generous cups of frozen raspberries into a 4 qt. bowl and placed them into the fridge to thaw. This morning I mixed together: 1 1/4 cups sugar 2 tbs. Minute Tapioca 2...

I made some delicious homemade Vanilla Ice Cream today using a recipe I found online.  But it is made in the freezer, rather than using and ice cream freezer.  It uses sweetened condensed milk, whipping cream, vanilla and a dash of salt.  And its super easy to make.   I made Hot Fudge Sundae’s...

is the pie for this week. David has been hinting around for weeks that I haven’t made a Chocolate Cream Pie for a while. So this morning I whipped one up. Hint for keeping the Whipped Cream from “falling”. When whipping the cream as it reaches the soft peak stage have ready a cooled mixture...

This is for Kevin of Cavalcade of Food. Today, before the sh*t hit the fan in DC I decided to make this recipe of Kevin’s that I saw on Cavalcade of Food a few weeks ago. Since the new Dole Pineapple slice cans have a pull top and the inside ridge makes getting the finished Jello out of the...

I baked an Apple Pie this morning using a new method that I’ve been using for the last 5 Apple Pies I’ve baked. What’s new is Make Ahead Apple Pie Filling. It makes the most perfect Apple Pie ever and is really easy. Yes it is two steps, but you can make the filling the day of, the day...

Last week we watched one of Kevin 313’s  “Cavalcade of Food” You Tube videos about making Pineapple Jello Slices.  On the small two burner electric cooktop he uses for demonstrations he had a beautiful Farberware MCM Tea Kettle.     David and I both instantly loved the design and I decided...

This morning I whipped up our dessert for the weekend in about 30 mins.  This is a fool proof recipe that anyone can master.   First I made a Pat in the Pan Pie Crust as follows: In a small bowl mix with a fork: 1 1/2 cups flour 1 tsp. salt 2 tsp. sugar In a 1 cup liquid measuring cup add...