Tag: temperature

These days, many of us are weighing the impacts and ethics of meat eating in general. So the prospect of buying and cooking a holiday roast is more daunting than ever. Here's a guide to navigating today’s meat markets and making a centerpiece roast worth celebrating.

Source Quality Beef

The single most important decision to make is what beef to buy, because flavor is largely predetermined before the roast goes into the oven. Quality beef is strongly correlated with the cattle’s quality of life: Did it live on pasture, even during its final 120 days eating grasses? Did it live without stress—especially right before slaughter?

There is an old British nursery rhyme that talks about porridge that is either hot, cold or "in a pot nine days old." I don’t know if the poet ever thought that his poetry could ever be used to describe our sex lives but the comparisons are interesting.

Our married sex does have a temperature, in fact, just like porridge. There is a climate that defines our marriages in general, which naturally spills over into the bedroom. This climate and the resulting temperature can be sizzling hot, blistering cold, lukewarm, or stale and soggy like porridge left lying around for nine days or more—definitely not pleasant to the taste.

Summertime is road trip time. There's something magically liberating about hitting the open highway for a summer getaway—especially when it's with someone you love. Following these 12 etiquette tips will help ensure you are still speaking to one another when you reach your destination:

1. Offer to take turns driving. Even if one of you normally does all the driving when you travel by car close to home, don't assume that person wants to drive all 12 hours of the trip. Offer to give them a break and ask again later if they say no the first time.

Toddlers are selective, predictable and stubborn, but making lunchtime doesn’t have to be difficult for either of you. Here are some tips to make the 12 o’clock hour fun for your toddler!

1. Setting a schedule: A key to toddler lunchtime good behavior is sticking to the same schedule every day. Sit down at the same time each day for lunch with your toddler and build a routine.