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One of the fun parts about being gluten intolerant is that restaurants become a game of roulette. Even restaurants with “gluten free menu items” frequently screw that up, and I’ve gotten croutons on my gluten free salad before (after a specific request for no croutons). Salad dressings are a gamble – even vinaigrettes, if they’re [...]

Beans and Cornbread

In: kitchen

28 Jan 2012

I read this post over on Google+ yesterday, and it made me really sad. Why beans made me cry in my car today. Also pleased in the power of humanity, because it’s really good to see people helping each other out, but really sad because it sucks to be in that position, with no money [...]

After installing a dishwasher, we decided to install a new faucet in our prep sink as well. Which sounds like there was one before. There wasn’t. It went bad about 2 months ago, we just hadn’t replaced it yet. Of course, I’m headed in to work today. Let’s see if the faucet is going to [...]

One 34.25” dishwasher successfully installed in a (previously) 34 inch hole. After we took the feet and the wheels off the dishwasher, I did some trimming on the lip of our (already pretty much trashed) countertop to allow the dishwasher to fit. It’s still snug, but it’s installed, running beautifully, and not leaking. (It has [...]


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