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I am looking to make pig picking cupcakes, but i would like something a little lighter than yellow cake mix. Anyone ever try mixing boxed yellow cake and angelfood cake mixes together?

We are participating in a pork BBQ contest, where we are cooking a whole hog for competition.

Our team is female, and our mentor is my father-in-law.

What should we name our team? Nothing vulgar please, this is a family / community event for charity.

Thanks!

It's been about 5 days since I canned apple butter and peach preserves. I didn't use the typical "canning" process of using a hot water bath to finish them, as my mother-in-law just taught me strawberry jam, and she simply fills hot sterilized jars with the boiling jam/substance and inverts them.

Should I go back and boil these jars to avoid contamination? I wanted to share them with family and friends, but now I feel nervous. I didn't realize this "open kettle" method was not recommended.

Help!

My husband, 27 and I, 25, have been married for almost 3 years. We've been together for 7 years, both each others first serious relationship. We have a good marriage - occasional bumps like anyone else, but generally good. My husband always worked for his family - his mother, then his father.

He started a new job outside of the family about 6 months ago. He likes his job, and I am happy for him! However, one of the things that he likes about his job is his new "best friend," who happens to be a woman. I don't care that they're friends, but recently, it crossed the line into texting on the weekends and her asking him to help her with "stuff" on the weekend. I am uncomfortable with this - as far as I am concerned, they sit next to each other 40 HOURS A WEEK. What can they possibly have to say that they can't say during that time?

I made a point of voicing my discomfort, and after the texts came, I replied to her. I wasn't rude, I simply said "Hi, this *****'s wife. He's busy right now - Is there something I can help you with?" and got NO ANSWER.

To me, that says that she knows that was inappropriate, and that she felt guilty. I would have expected SOME response, like "Hi, I was just asking if he could help with moving/car/whatever. **** talks about you - hopefully we can meet one day! Have a nice night!"

Since then, my husband has told me that she is his "best friend" and that I need to just get over it and let it go. To me, this is disrespectful on his part. I don't expect to be his only best friend, but I expect to be his priority. He is my priority, and I expect the same. I don't want to be the jealous biotch, but I feel like I have to stand for something, and being told that I need to just get over my feelings, and basically told that I need to just let it go, because he's going to continue whether or not it hurts me isn't fair.

Am I wrong?

I remember a story about a little girl who has lots of dolls, and names them all and always wants another nicer newer doll. She ends up leaving her favorite one out in the leaves in the fall, and it stays lost all winter. She finds it the next spring, but then I don't remember what the conclusion to the book was.

I feel like maybe the little girl was a bit of a brat and didn't really appreciate the nice doll, maybe? Anyway, I am trying to remember this book, and I can't! I've googled keywords from this theme and I can't seem to find it.

Anyone else remember this book??

I am trying to make lumpia, a traditional Filipino egg-roll-esque food, filled with ground pork or beef, carrots, cabbage, and etc. I would like to make mini lumpia, about half as long as traditional lumpia. I would also like to make a side dipping sauce, half sweet and sour sauce, half Thai sweet chili sauce.

Do you think this sounds good? This is for a company Xmas party.

Thanks! :)

I am making Loaded Rods for a Xmas party -

you take pretzel rods, and cut them in half. Then you melt caramels and condensed milk, and dip the pretzel 2/3 of the way into the caramel. Then, you roll it into a mixture of candy bits.

The recipe called for butterscotch chips, choc chips, and peanuts. I dislike butterscotch, so I'm not doing that. I was thinking maybe Heath toffee bits instead?

Does anyone have any other good ideas of what to roll the pretzels in??? Thanks! :))

We don't have home phones, but we have cell phones. It's just cheaper. However, in recent months, I have begun to feel trapped by it. It used to be, that if you weren't home, friends & family just left a message, and you called them back later. In the cell phone era, folks seem to think that just because you have your phone with you, means that you are subject to answering their calls at any given moment, regardless of if it's a good time to talk. Lately, I have begun to notice folks getting snappy and short with me, because they had to leave a voice mail and get a call back from me later. Am I wrong in thinking that the cell phone is for MY convenience, so that I know who has called, and so I can talk when I need to, make emergency calls, and have access everywhere? Does that also mean that I am required to answer every single call, regardless of what I am currently doing (i.e. WORKING?) I thought a cell phone was for my own convenience, not to be used as a tracking device that I am subject to. Anyone else have an opinion on this???

I have been on BCP since I was 18, because I was having abnormally heavy and irregular periods. Just before I started the pills, I noticed a small patch of fine dark hair on my neck, also on my big toe, and on my upper lip. I didn't mention it when starting BCP, as I thought it was nothing related. All of the hairs went away after being on BCP. I had been having strong pains on one side of my body, right about where the ovary would be, but after about 10 months on the pill, the pains had eventually subsided, and then were gone completely. I stopped taking the pill this past May, as my doctor wanted to monitor my blood pressure, and thought it would be best to do it off of BCP. I had a light period in June, but then never again. I took multiple pregnancy tests, all negative. I started the pill again in late September, and I am now having trouble with constant breakthrough bleeding. I have just gotten married, and we are thinking of trying to conceive, but I am concerned that I may have PCOS, after reading about it, and perhaps being on the BCP(treatment for PCOS) may have masked the symptoms to make it unable to be diagnosed. I had a vaginal ultrasound a year ago, because I was starting to have the pains again, but the doctor saw nothing, and said I didn't have cysts, so I don't have PCOS. I haven't really had the pains much lately, but I am concerned that we will have trouble conceiving, and that I may have PCOS that is being covered up by the BCP. Does anyone have any insight on this matter?