Grill Ideas, Tips & Guides

Every home wizard out there is surely aware of the common laundry booster – borax.

Family get-togethers call for lip-smacking food and fun times. And great food means the smell of a charcoal grill being fired up in the backyard to cook juicy steaks and delectable veggies with delicious barbeque sauce. And oh – don’t forget – barbequed fruits for dessert. Yum!

Did you know you can use Dawn dish soap for things other than washing dirty dishes?

No doubt, cleaning is a mundane task. Some of you may love sprucing up your living space by digging out dust from every nook and cranny; for others, cleaning means putting stuff in less obvious places.

Whether you use your backyard for entertaining, gardening, playing with the kids, relaxing, or a little bit of all of those, it’s a much more enjoyable space when it’s organized. Toys laying all over the place make it hard to mow the lawn, gardening tools without a place to live tend to get ruined in the rain or lost forever. Save your money and your sanity with these genius ideas for making your backyard into a place you can truly sit back and enjoy!

I never needed to know how to clean a BBQ grill until 2015, which is when I bought myself a nice little Weber gas grill. (Neither my husband’s massive pellet smoker nor his large charcoal grill had proven particularly useful when I wanted to grill up something quick for dinner, which happens frequently during the summers!)

Corn gets a bad rap these days. It’s in everything from breakfast cereal to dog food to skin care products, so how can it be healthy?Well, my friends, it is.

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We don’t eat a lot of fish at our house for the most part. But it’s not because we don’t like fish – in fact, most of us love fish! However, I’ve never felt very confident in my ability to cook fish properly. The few times I’ve attempted it at home have either resulted in overcooked fish, undercooked fish, or a pile of flaky bits that used to be fish. It was all so discouraging that I eventually stopped trying.

You love the way your glass stovetop fits perfectly into your countertop, and it probably works like a dream, too.

This post is sponsored by NABISCO. As always, all ideas and opinions are entirely my own. I’ve always looked at Memorial Day as the unofficial kick-off to the summer season. And since Memorial Day is now in our collective rear-view, it’s time to start planning some fun summer activities! And you can’t talk about summer activities without mentioning barbecues!

People put a lot of effort into creating a functional, comfortable home, with every room set up for their particular needs. An outdoor living room is the perfect space to lounge and entertain, which is why it's essential to curate a space that you and your family love.

Finding alternative uses of common household products can give you some cheap thrills. One extremely common and inexpensive item found in every household is the kitchen sponge.

Hiding a spare house key under the doormat can hardly be called an act of intelligence. A fake rubber rock right next to your door is not genius either. Word to the wise: Never go for the obvious when hiding your house keys. How to go about it then? Well, let’s show you.