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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....

Fireflies, also known as lightning bugs, are nocturnal beetles that are actually really beneficial in the garden. They feed on slugs and snails, which can destroy plants (they especially like edibles like beans, lettuce, and tomatoes). They don’t bite, and they’re not poisonous. They also don’t carry diseases like other backyard insects. Fireflies’ glow comes from a chemical reaction inside their bodies that allows them to light up and signal to other fireflies....

If you don’t already have a mailbox post in place, you’ll want to make sure that your hole is dug no more than two feet deep. A curbside mailbox must be 6 to 8 inches from the curb, with the door panel 41 to 45 inches from the ground. When painting your address numbers on your mailbox, make sure they are at least 1 inch tall on the front side (or flag side) of the box....

Before You Start: Tips for Planning Timber Steps Decide how many steps you will need, how deep each horizontal tread will be, and how high to make each vertical riser. Here’s a useful rule: The tread dimension plus the riser dimension should equal about 17 inches. Try to make your riser dimension no more than 7 inches and no less than 4 inches. No matter how you juggle the figures, just be sure all treads and risers will be exactly the same depth and height: Changes break a person’s stride and cause stumbles....