Counterbalances for Spice

There have been a few restaurants in my neighbourhood where their consistency with their amount of hot spices is a little lacking.  So I've been discovering common food items that have helped with mellowing out dishes before it's too late.  Here's the running list:

1. Milk product: yogurt, ice cream, cow milk (nut/soy "milk" should be called juice)
2. Walnuts

Squeeky Lazy Suzans

Nono, all the Suzans I know are very pro-active and never complains.  I'm talking about the kitchen corner cabinetry that I've had since the reno that have developed a really bad squeeling upon rotation.  To the point where the plastic that's rubbing against the stainless steel column is being sharded off.

Easy solution.  After cleaning/vaccuuming away all the plastic shavings and such, run a bit of petroleum jelly (vaseline) on the rod where the plastic rotates.  That's it.  C'est fini!  Now the shelf spins like it's the Price-is-Right wheel.

Stationary Centre

I learned a trick not too long ago, where end-of-life kleenex boxes and paper rolls can be re-fashioned into a makeshift pencil holder.

Extending that concept a bit, made an entire station of them.

Four tissue boxes worth!

Blog Branching

Try and say THAT three times fast!

Setting up a different home for the IT centered pieces.

Teleport over using this link.

Blueberry Best Practices

When you buy those clamshell pints of blueberries, I find it's best to move them into another container when you get home.

Primary reason is to avoid crushing the ones at the bottom, which take the weight of the other blueberries stacked on top.  What can happen, I find, is that the bottom-blueberries get crushed and the flesh (which isn't blue, surprisingly) gets exposed to the air, lending itself to faster mold growth; first for that crushed berry, but also for the adjacent berries next to it.

It's not that much different than a zombie-apocalypse, accept its blueberry zombies, and it's mostly contained within that clamshell; though with the usual vents on those containers, it means your entire fridge is exposed.