States around the country are considering legislation to preserve the net neutrality protections that were recently repealed by the FCC, but Connecticut won’t be one of them. That’s because Republican state senators there used a procedural technicality to kill one such piece of legislation in committee.
Imagine if you could pull Ina Garten into your very own kitchen and have her walk you through how to cook. Not just recipes, but the miniature actions and skills that are muscle memory to a culinary pro. With her swingy lob and trademark denim button-down, you two could be elbow to elbow, suddenly kitchen pals as she showed you the exact moment when yeast comes alive or how to shingle prosciutto onto a tartine.
This can be your life. No, seriously.
Once a week, block out the world, turn on Barefoot Contessa: Cook Like a Pro, and get a light-hearted master class from a lovable food icon.
Spring is a time of renewal, so we feel like there's no better moment than now to pick up a new habit or try out a new idea. Even better if that idea inspires some good 'ness — you know... happiness, coziness, wellness or just all around better living at home.
As if Kmart Australia wasn't painful enough, we Americans have yet another reason to envy folks in other parts of the world. Europeans have discovered pastel-colored mineral water bottle crates, and are using them at home in all sorts of clever and cute ways. We are completely and utterly jealous that we can't do it too.
Just because you don’t have access to the fanciest gear around doesn’t mean you have to play subpar games. Even if you’re on a potato computer or low-end PC, there’s plenty out there for you to enjoy. Here are some of Kotaku’s top picks for quality games that should run on almost anything.
Happy taco Tuesday! If you've been making the same ground beef tacos for months now, I have an exciting proposition for you: Skip the meat and make these Buffalo cauliflower tacos instead. With spicy cauliflower, crunchy slaw, and creamy avocado sauce, you won't miss your usual tacos one bit.
I recently spent hours examining every yogurt label I could find to determine which yogurts have the least amount of sugar. I was focusing on toddler yogurts for this story, but it got me thinking about the yogurts I eat too.
Classic buttermilk biscuits are a staple in my household. Quick, easy, and light as a feather, they can be served for breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner and even dessert! The technique is simple (hint: freeze the butter and use a light touch) but the results are spectacular.
No matter how often I "clean" my bathroom, it always feels like there's a mess hiding in the shadows. An undercurrent of disorganization. A collection of clutter just out of sight. It probably feels that way because although I try to keep my cabinets and drawers tidy...I haven't really expended that much effort, just kind of tossing my stuff into random drawers. Who has time for anything more?
Tiny houses are charming, and a great way to simplify and streamline your life—but the tradeoff, for many tiny house designs, is having to struggle up a ladder at night to reach your tiny peaked loft bedroom. Forget where you are in the morning, and you may just whack your head on the tiny adorable roof of your tiny adorable home. But the Escher, a creation of New Frontier Tiny Homes, takes a different approach: it has a bedroom you'd actually want to wake up in.
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Science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke once wrote that "any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic," and I'm becoming increasingly convinced that he was talking about the Instant Pot. Every day someone seems to find something new the Instant Pot can do. If you told me the Instant Pot could do my taxes, I would probably believe you.
It's a pressure cooker, a rice cooker, and a slow cooker, and it can make yogurt and wine (yes, wine) and reheat meat from frozen so quickly even the USDA thinks it's OK.
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Welcome to Kitchn's Food Budget Diaries series, where we show you how people around the country spend money on what they eat and drink. Each post will follow one person for one week and will chronicle everything that person consumed and how much it costs them.
Name: Katie
Location: Ketchikan, Alaska
Age: 30
Number of people in family: 3 (me; my husband, Leif, 39; and our 21-month-old son, Canyon)
Occupation: Stay-at-home mom; my husband is a high school science teacher
Household income: $50,000 a year
Weekly food budget: $200
I love inexpensive, simple DIY household cleaners with one giant caveat: they have to work. One of my very favorite homemade cleaners is Alvin Corn. I've mixed one up for every bathroom in the house and one for common areas and it's one cleaning solution I'll never replace.
Instead of picking up pastries or a coffee cake at the grocery store or bakery, add these lemony blueberry scones to your Easter brunch menu. Loaded with plump blueberries and lemon zest, these tender, golden-brown scones use buttermilk instead of heavy cream and are drizzled with a lemony glaze at the end for an extra hit of citrus flavor. Best of all, the scone dough can be made, frozen, and baked so they can be served fresh without any fuss or stress.
You've taken to heart the importance of the family dinner. You meal planned, you carved out the time to cook, you got everyone to the table at the same time. You are feeling pretty good — and you should. The Family Dinner: You did it!
But why is getting information out of your kids so hard? You're interested, you're available, but there's not a whole lot of repartee going on. Here are a few tips to spark that conversation and get the kids really talking about what's happening in their world. Any of these questions should keep your kid from asking the worst question of all: "May I please be excused?"
Just be prepared to give your own answers!
Pizza is a regular visitor to our house — only it doesn't usually come from a delivery person. Making homemade pizza from prepared dough is a quick and easy dinner any night of the week. Even making your own dough only really adds a few minutes to the prep time! Pile on your favorite toppings and get ready to chow down.
In a crunchy episode of the Bon Apétit series Gourmet Makes, Senior Food Editor and pastry chef Claire Saffitz spent a creative three days brainstorming how to create a gourmet version of the very popular Cheetos Crunchy Cheese Snack. On the third day, after a number of false starts and ingredient changes, Saffitz successfully came up with a recipe that closely resembled that of the cheesy snack, although one co-worker thought she exceeded her goal.
Don’t take this the wrong way. It’s almost too classy to be a Cheeto. You’re in the Pirate’s Booty world of cheesy puffy things. It’s a great place to be.
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chapincNo more missed connections! No more casual encounters!
In response to the Senate passing H.R.1865, an anti-online sex trafficking bill that has the potential to seriously harm consenting, adult sex workers, Craigslist has shuttered its all of its personals sections. Even the platonic ones.
Small-space dwelling bibliophiles everywhere, rejoice!
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Are Amazon’s Fire Tablets as fast and as capable as the latest iPads? Of course not. But they’re perfectly respectable media consumption devices, and all three sizes are on sale today, to go along with the company’s Echo sale.
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2010's Tron: Legacy’s has nothing on the 1982 original in terms of character development and story, but it looked real good. It certainly makes for an attractive new addition to the Lego Ideas line of fan-created sets. You can almost hear the Daft Punk.
Get ready to grovel for your next shipment of toilet paper. A recently published Amazon patent depicts a delivery drone capable of recognizing and responding to human gestures and speech, which means you may want to practice the art of supplication to ensure proper delivery of that two-ply to your front porch.
How to DAD creator Jordan Watson of Auckland, New Zealand released part two of his funny video series where he points out even more of the differences between Australia and New Zealand.
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chapincI was all like, "Oooh, pretty high chairs, maybe we could replace the dingy one!" and then I saw the prices on some of these... hooooooly crap
When my girls were little, my parents had this hand-me-down high chair they would haul out for visits. It was just brutal. It was big and bulky, even when it was folded closed, with these plasticky-looking feet and an ostensibly comfy seat cushion that would catch crumbs in the stitching. Sure, it was functional in that it held the kids up to table height for meals, but man that thing was ugly!
In a small space, especially, it makes a difference to have a stylish high chair. Plus, you want a cool one in those early years when you're struggling between feeling like your formerly cool self and feeling like you've totally given in to being a parent. And you want something that'll look as cute as your baby in those Instagram photos.
Because you will be looking at that thing — and wiping strained spinach and spaghetti off it — every day for the next few years, here are a few high chairs that are actually stylish, and easy to clean, too.
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Yes, it's that time of year again. Get your spot cleaner and grout brushes ready, but this time around you can eighty-six the dread. We're here to help you flip the script and reclaim spring cleaning in a way that fits your real life.
Prepare to sail the Sea of Thieves and to experience the glory of a remastered Assassin’s Creed Rogue, which, uh, also has boats.
We should all be paying more attention to the produce, meat, and grab-and-go options.
