I love kitchen gadgets. Over the years I have scoured the yard sales or scrimped and saved for various items like a curly potato maker, baked potato cooker, rice cooker, food processor, blender, ice cream maker, yogurt maker, snow code maker, well you name it and it has drawn dust in my cabinets. You know the story, get your gadget home and every night your family is eating curly fries and snow cones until finally you receive a petition signed by every neighbor and his dog supporting your family's decision to ban that contraption!

I want it!

This weekend I removed my egg money jar to see how much change I had saved over the year. I had saved enough to get me one of those vacuum sealer gizmos. I know you have see the informercial, the one Bertha, Vacuum Sealers & Frogs Recipe

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Jack Daniel's Brownies and Glaze

by News Canada

(NC)-This recipe was prepared by Camelback and Central, 1403 2nd Avenue, New York, New York.

3/4 cup all-purpose flour

1/2 teaspoon baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

6 tablespoons sweet butter

3 ounces baking chocolate

3/4 cup sugar

2 eggs

1 cup chopped pecans or walnuts

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 ounces Jack Daniel's Whiskey

Jack Daniel's Glaze

Mix together flour, baking powder and salt; set aside. Melt butter and chocolate in top of double boiler over simmering water. Remove from heat; add sugar, eggs, nuts, vanilla, flour mixture and Jack Daniel's Whiskey; mix well. Preheat oven to 350ºC. Pour batter into a greased 8x10-inch cake pan. Bake for approximately 25 minutes or until firm. Remove from oven; Jack Daniel's Brownies and Glaze Recipe

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Spinach Salad with Strawberries

by Armen Hareyan

This Spinach Salad may be prepared before the serving, but the dressing for this Spinach Salad with Strawberries may be prepared few hours before serving.

Take a large salad bowl and sprinkle sesame seeds of spinach in the bowl. Add some strawberries to the salad. After you have done this, combine the dressing ingredients provided below and shake well in a screw-top jar and chill.

This is a very simple Spinach Salad to prepare with Strawberries. After you have parepared the dressing pour chilled dressing over the mixture of spinach salad and strawberry in bowl and toss to distribute well.

The ingredients for Spinach Salad with Strawberries.

Take1/2 teaspoon Toasted sesame seeds

2-3 cus of fresh strawberries, hulled and halve Spinach Salad with Strawberries Recipe

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