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Real Estate exchange and liquidation: A family story: BC (Before Cash)�

Most of us know that to sell personal property; one has to be prepared to take some deep discounts. Also at that time we were experiencing a soft market for cash buyers for our real properties even though they all were good positive cash flow properties and we were willing to leave something on the table for the cash investors. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

The Midas touch Formula for Buying a House�

It is an "etched in granite" fact that one must buy wholesale today in order to make a profit whether it is in single family homes or candy bars even when you pay retail or especially when you pay retail. So how does one go about that? CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

How to Temper Chocolate�

In a previous article I wrote about my efforts of making molded chocolate candy and this is a continuation of my thoughts. At this point I always buy tempered chocolate as untempered chocolate requires a lot of extra work and you need to know a lot more about it. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

How to Make Molded Chocolate Candy�

It is simple yet tricky and there are some trade secrets that I have found out about the hard way and I would like to share them with you. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

Recipes for Cooking Tempura�

The tempura rack sets on the edge of your wok. Your wok is filled with oil and you can easily work from your wok to your rack. Have all your ingredients prepared ahead of time. i.e. cut vegetables and cut meat or fish. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

4 Great Recipes for Mongolian Fire Pot Cooking�

This piece of equipment is a thing of beauty. I have had mine for years and it is a really fun way to have a dinner for 4 to 8 people. The lid comes off and you have the "pot" part to cook in. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

Deep Frying the Chinese Way� 

Stir-frying is the most colorful and well-known Chinese cooking technique. However, many Chinese dishes call for the food to be deep-fried. In fact, the use of deep-frying, or Chau, in Chinese cooking predates stir-frying, which was developed mainly to cope with a shortage of cooking oil. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

Cooking Tip for seasoning your wok�

When I purchased my wok it came from a China and it needed to be seasoned. Only iron and steel woks need to be seasoned. Stainless steel woks do not need this treatment, as they are far less porous than iron or steel woks. However with stainless steel woks, more oil is required to prevent the food from sticking and burning. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

Cooking tips on Chinese Knifes and Chinese Cleavers�

Wok cooking is very easy if you use the correct utensils and two of those are the Chinese knife and the Chinese cleaver. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

A Cooking tip for using Bamboo Steamers�

Bamboo steamers are great for steaming food. The texture of the bamboo allows steam to circulate and evaporate so that less moisture will form on the inside of the lid. Steamers are normally placed over boiling water rather than to start steaming over cold water. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

The Etiquette For a Wine Tasting�

The following terms may seem fanciful at first, but with practice and the right tasting techniques, you should be able to start picking them out from the taste of the wines... CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

Where is the Best Place to Buy Your Wine?�

Whether you make your own, or host a party where each guest brings a bottle of wine and you supply the cheese and crackers, or you are lucky enough to live near a winery, how you buy your wine is up to you. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

My Two Favorite Venison Recipes�

I remember my days as an avid meat eater, especially, wild game. I recall dressing out my first deer in 1967, cooking my first squirrel in 1952 and the many years in the late 50's and early 60's of cooking all sorts of wild quail, partridges, pheasants, turkeys, caribou, elk, moose and alligator. I have even eaten rack of lion at the Explorer's club! CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Pizza, but Were Afraid to Ask�

Pizza is one of my most favorite foods. I love it hot, I love it cold, I eat it leftover pizza for breakfast and it is a pretty healthy food. I love New York pizza by the slice. In Brooklyn we always asked if any one wanted a slice of pie and that meant pizza! CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

As a baker of bread for over 50 years, I purchased a bread machine a few years ago. Most my recipes call for 5 loaves at a baking. However, once the 5 kids were gone we did not need so much bread. The bread machine solved the problem and I love it. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

Some Simple Advice about Flower Arranging�

Having a flower garden helps to keep me supplied with lots of fresh flowers. We have lots of windows and some French doors in our home and it allows us the luxury of seeing flowers of all sorts from the early spring until late fall. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

How to Grow an Easy Flower Garden�

Gardening is hard work and anyone who says it isn't must know something I don't know. However, it is good exercise, frustrating, gratifying and many other things.
I love flowers and hate weeding so over the years I have tried to find some easy, colorful and reseeding flowers for my gardens. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

How to Divide Daffodils� 

Living in zone 6 gives me the ability to consider lots of perennials and one of them is daffodils. Ever since we moved to Kentucky, we have never been here in the winter. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

How to grow Lettuce and other Salad Greens�

It's lettuce time and growing lettuces, with their mosaic of colors, textures and leafy rosette shapes is one of the most rewarding aspects of having your own kitchen garden. A large and very diverse world of lettuces is available to grow from seed and this is the time to start them. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

How to Make Your own Liquid Potpourri and other good stuff!�

There are often many items that you see in the stores that are expensive, but charming and a pleasant addition to ones home such as candles, fragrant potpourri, sachets, and gel fresheners. They are not hard to make. Plus they are pretty reasonable to make. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

How to Create Works of Art Without Knowing How to Draw�

If I have heard this once, I have heard this a thousand times, "I can't even draw a straight line". I hear it every time someone looks at one of my paintings.
I basically feel one can paint or create art in any painting or drawing medium without knowing how to draw a straight line. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

Banking Ala Carte�

Banks advertise it is cheaper to all your banking in one place. Don't believe it! It may be handier, but it is never cheaper and it is never, never good business to let a bank, an attorney or anyone else for that matter to know all your business. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

More on Taxes�

Right after Clinton strode into the White House, he promised to make the rich pay "their fair share". Taxes would go up, but they'd hit corporations and the rich, and spare the middle class. Clinton could not blame Bush Sr. as much as he tried for cooking the books to mask the true size of the deficit until after the election. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

How to Get the Most Mileage Out of Your Credit Cards and Not Pay Interest�

In 1965 I made a statement to my friend that this country was going back to the "Nobles and the Serfs" and that I would make the world's most rotten serf! This reference was to my personal vision of the decline and fall of the middle class American, especially in the realm of spendable income. CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.

How to Live an Easier Life�

In today's busy stream of life, one can hardly find the time to make it from wake up time to get some sleep time, so why is there a reason to take up a hobby or where is the time for a hobby? CLICK HERE TO READ THE ENTIRE ARTICLE.