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...

Standing waiting for a table at a restaurant recently and listening to the hostesses repeating the mantra "10 to 20 minutes" to everyone who walked in the door while watching servers enter orders into the restaurant's POS system I realized those systems are not currently integrated at all. But there's some huge scheduling benefits to integrating them. When servers key in orders to the POS system they put in a table number. So the system could know not just what tables were "in use" but...

Ideal as a Starter, Party Food or Lunch. 1 lb salad potatoes 1 cup of green beans 1 cup of carrots, cubed 1 cup of peas 1 red pepper, cut into cubes 1 onion, finely chopped pickled cucumber, cut into cubes light mayonnaise, enough to cover the salad vinegar to taste salt and pepper to taste 1. Boil potatoes, leave to cool and cut into cubes 2. Cook the peas, carrots and beans, leave to...

This one is a typical party problem: the fridge is full of drinks, and on the outside they are all cold. But in reality, some have only been placed in the fridge 20 minutes ago, and you don't really want to pick one of those where the drink inside is still fairly warm. The solution: put a temperature sensor on the can/bottle with a thin wire towards the middle of the beverage. It would work like the modern batteries which have a power sensor built in. Of course the material used for...

Sodium bicarbonate is the main ingredient in soda crackers that helps soak up moisture in sugar, salt, parmasian cheese and other products that might clump when moisture condenses and creates a clumping or solidifying problem. We can make sodium bicarbonate packets to put in with the products or solid discs that fit the bottom of the containers. Much better than shaking the container or wasting the product by thowing it out because it becomes useless when solidified. And it is a terrible...

Recarbonation Tablets to bring back carbonation into any liquid. Why deal with flat liquids, just add carbon dioxide tablets to your liquids or beverages and have fizz in anything you want. Disolves in liquids like Alka-Seltzer but stays fizzy.

Have you ever tried to put a knife in mayonaise or peanut butter and the handle comes out dirty and so does your hand? Well if they can put relish in a squeeze tube then we can improve a sqeeze tube and its functionality by adding an aerosol-type can filled with any thing imagineable, avoiding a mess and not having to try and sqeeze a darn tube of something. This beats the sqeeze tube by being more effective and efficient and is less messy!

If you want your drinks with an olive or your pre-dinner snacks while entertaining guests, then you want them alive (they are more fun that way!). So, you simply make everything from finger sandwhiches to finger food stuck with something that can be digested. Wood can splinter and you can choke on them. You can make candy tooth picks and enjoy extra flavor. The kids would love to suck on a hard sugar cinnamon tooth pick as well, so it is fun for the whole family. Other products like...

Design milk cartons which have a litmus strip that changes color depending on the freshness of the milk. A face could be printed over the strip - turning green when the milk is spoiled.