I travel a lot on business and for pleasure. One of the most popular items I bring home from a vacation is a bottle of alcohol. Unfortunately, getting the bottles home without damage can be very tricky, especially when others are handling your luggage along the way. The protective case for alcohol is a real rescue. It is made of padded, leak-proof nylon to help shield the bottle from the abuse that the bags will take along your voyage. It also has a see-through window on the front...

Ingredients: 2 lb of sauerkraut 2 carrots 1 oz parsley 1 onion 2 tomatoes 1 tablespoon wheat flour 1 tablespoon vegetable oil pinch of pepper 4 oz sour cream Directions: 1. In a pot mix sauerkraut, chopped tomatoes, chopped carrots with 1 glass of water, bring to a boil, reduce heat, cover and cook for 1.5 hours. 2. Fry chopped onions in vegetable oil. Add onions to the pot with sauerkraut, stir. 3. Add 8 glasses of water (or meat broth) and cook for...

Describing how a fish tastes is notoriously difficult. Having dinner at a nice place last weekend, and listening to the server do a pretty standard (thus highly ineffective) job of describing the fish we'd never heard of, I thought that it would be a smart thing for an upscale restaurant to do to cook off a couple of pieces of the exotic fish special for that evening and offer a scant forkful to anyone interested in giving it a taste before they ordered. The dish wouldn't have to be hot, it...

Keep your food hot all day! Cook it in the morning and it steeps in it's own flavors cooking all day. Ready to go at the end of a hard day. Make breakfast and lunch the night before. Just wrap it in a Space Blacket sheet and the heat stays in for hours!

Any Muffin you can think of would taste much better if you simply filled the inside of it with your favorite, stuffed, filled, cream. Much like a cream puff, but this is done with the Muffin; a much more popular and more eaten food, especially at breakfast time when you need energy and flavor to wake you up and get you going. This would not only improve and renew the Muffin, but the industry would probably make more of them, driving the cost down on one of our favorite foods, and that...

Have you ever been stuck some place when your chewing gum loses its flavor or it starts to hurt your jaw but, had no where to spit it out? Of course you have. Now, with digestable and easy to swallow chewing gum that breaks down in stomache acid and not in your mouth with saliva, you can just swallow it. No mess, no looking for some place to put it. What if your school teacher or boss doesn't allow gum chewing? Just bring some easy to swallow gum to work and if they complain, just...

Simply find all forms of chocolate from everywhere that tastes different and put them all together in one bar. You could call it the "Around the World Bar". Also you could try and fit as many different kinds of chocolate bar ingredients into one bar. "The Everything in the World Bar".

Coffee drinkers get stained teeth. I average 1 pot of coffee a day (10 cups) and my teeth suffer horribly. If you can bleach sugar, flour, etc. etc..... how come not coffee grounds? I would drink clear coffee. I know they have water that is caffeinated but I don't like water, it's not the same. Pour me a hot cup of clear JOE!!!

Great for sneeking your own liquor into bars and restaurants. Be the cheap person that I am, I tried my best to sneak in pint bottles so I would not have to pay the premium for my mixed drinks. This however go fairly unattractive in the summer trying to lug a pint bottle in my shorts or jeans. My idea would be to packetized liquor (obviously not in sizes greater than shot) in a dissolving capsule that would release the liquor when it touches your mixing beverage of choice.

It's happened to everyone: you're carrying a can of soda, and suddenly have to run to catch a bus. You sit down, open the can... and cola sprays everywhere. The answer? A self-contained gyroscopic soda stabilizer! Put the can in the stabilizer unit, and it will retain its orientation in space, no matter how mush you twist and turn while running.