The Good Home

Bar tables are superb options for any home, providing you with a stylish and practical bar area. These tables are the perfect accompaniment to any bar stool, as they have a top height of 90cm and are designed to be used with a seat height of around 65 to 75 cm, making them ideal for [...]

My favourite film of all time is Fried Green Tomatoes, and as it happens fried green tomatoes are one of my fave appetisers too. I happened upon a new recipe that eliminates one of main parts of these tasty treats, the fried part, and replaces it with a much more health conscious approach. Another interesting [...]

First off, you may not even know that there are several different types of cooking thermometers. But there are in fact the traditional, instant read, digital probe, laser and disposable kinds. And yes, you guessed it some people have strong preferences regarding these choices. Here are some basics things to know about the varying thermometers [...]

The small appliances we keep in our kitchens provide us with a lot of useful assistance in our baking and cooking. Several of them can be quite pricey, and as such we should treat them well, and maintain them properly. If you do this then they should last a long time, and assist you for [...]

Kitchen sponges can harbour germs galore, but that does not mean that you must constantly replace them with brand new ones. Instead all you need to do to get them back to being the cleaning machines that you know they can be is to complete a couple of quick steps. Pretty soon you will have [...]

It is time to get your kitchen on order for the New Year, so here are few things to add to your to do list that you might be avoiding. Clean the oven and the stove completely, organise your pantry, and throw out expired food, put new baking soda in both the fridge and the [...]

Grocery stores are making it increasingly easy for us to look like wizards in the kitchen. For the Christmas season, there are complete fancy cakes designed by famous chefs packaged up, and ready to be put together by us. These are not your common old Betty Crocker cakes, these are fashionable and the final product [...]

I adore wreaths, and thoroughly enjoy making new ones every chance I get. I even invite my girlfiends over every now and then for a wreath making party. This love affair means that I must find unconventional placements for the extra ones I want to display. As such, I thought I would point out that [...]

For as long as I can remember, my mother and grandmother have had enormous candles burning in their kitchens. No matter what the season, a fluid fragrance has wafted, and created a homey appeal in this room in their homes. Neither woman followed in the footsteps of the other when it came to selection, but [...]

While attending a wedding shower last weekend, I noted how many kitchen gifts were of the soft kind. What I mean is that over two thirds of the gifts included a textile of one sort or other. Though initially I attributed it to the relatively low cost of the items and their effective placement as [...]

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