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Thankfully, she doesn’t have to. The storage-rich, well-appointed kitchen in the new Dallas home she shares with husband Jeff abounds with cabinets: upper cabinets, lower cabinets, even cabinets disguised to look like they’re part of the furniture-style island. Heidi has plenty of room to store everything she needs for her favorite pastime: entertaining oodles of friends and family, including the couple’s four grown children. While Heidi cooks, she can interact with the kids, who love to perch at the island (and charge their phones at cleverly hidden outlets)....

¼ cup granulated sugar 1 tablespoon cornstarch ¾ cup half-and-half or light cream 2 tablespoon butter ¼ teaspoon finely shredded lemon peel 3 tablespoon lemon juice 2 tablespoon finely snipped crystallized ginger

2 ½ cup water 1 cup gluten-free coarse ground cornmeal 1 cup cold water 1 teaspoon salt

¼ cup olive oil ⅓ cup coarsely chopped fresh flat-leaf parsley 3 tablespoon snipped fresh chives 4 teaspoon snipped fresh lemon thyme or thyme ¼ teaspoon salt

2 cup powdered sugar 2 tablespoon butter 2 tablespoon eggnog

How to Tell When Meat Loaf Is Done Choose your favorite meat loaf recipe and set the oven for the cooking temperature specified. Toward the end of the cooking time (our standard two-pound meat loaf takes about one hour), follow this simple method to know when it’s done. Use an instant-read thermometer ($10, Walmart). The meat loaf’s internal temperature should register 160°F when the thermometer is inserted into the center. Alternatively, use an oven-safe thermometer that can be placed in the meatloaf before it goes into the oven....

What Is Bread Cheese? Bread cheese pays tribute to a Finnish cheese known as Juustoleipä (pronounced: hoo-stah-lee-pa) that is traditionally made with reindeer milk (yes, you read that right) and dipped in coffee. Today, cheesemakers in Wisconsin have adapted this Scandinavian dairy product and now make it with cow’s milk. So how did it get the name bread cheese? It’s all in the way it’s made. According to Wisconsin master cheesemaker Sid Cook, making bread cheese is “much harder as there are many more steps to the process....

How to Grow Honesty Honesty is easy to grow in moist, organically rich soil and full sun or part shade. Sow seeds outdoors in spring as soon as the ground can be worked, then cover them lightly with soil. Honesty will produce green, leafy growth the first year then flowers and seeds the second year. It takes about 18 months to go from planting honesty seeds to cutting and drying a new crop of silver dollar-size seedpods....