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Wives and Wives to be may you all have an amazing Thanksgiving and find the many things in your lives to be thankful for. I’ll be traveling to San Francisco for the holiday and will be back in Monday! - Taryn Cox for THE WIFE

If your on of those wives who love their non stick pans, reading the article below might sway you to switch them out for a healthier cooking alternative. Or if you cannot part with them at all, here are some tips to keeping them in tip top condition.

Health Concerns: Teflon contains highly toxic chemicals that may be released into your foods when the pan becomes scorched or starts to peel. The chemicals that manufacturers use to create the seemingly magic lining of nonstick cookware could end up damaging your liver or thyroid, or messing with your immune system. Reduce the risk of endocrine- and immune-system damage by ditching Teflon and other cookware made with fluoropolymers and fluorinated telomers. When replacing your pots and pans coated in Teflon, you should consider replacing them with cast iron or stainless steel cookware.

Replacing: If you must keep your teflon pots and pans replace them every two to three years or sooner if they have burned or the coating has begun to peel. This will depend on the wear of the pan, which can be determined by how well you have cared for it.

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Hello Wives and Wives To Be… I’ll be traveling to New York for an extra long weekend and will return next week! Happy Halloween! - Taryn Cox for THE WIFE.

Hello Wives and Wives To Be! I’ll be traveling to Chicago for a family holiday until next week. See you when I return! - Taryn Cox for THE WIFE.

October 2nd, 2008 was my very first blog post and when I christened the idea to start a website to inspire and empower women and wives… and what a few of years it has been! I want to thank all THE WIFE’s readers and fans, without you the success of this blog would not be possible. So for those of you dreaming to be a WIFE one day, for those newly engaged and ready to walk down the aisle, for those WIVES who make your home a happy place to be… Thank You! - Taryn Cox for THE WIFE.

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I came across this recipe last year when my mom passed it along to me. I’ve only known to make Corned Beef in a Crock Pot slow cooker. But with this recipe the meat is cooked in a dutch oven, then broiled and the honey mustard glaze makes it so much more delectable. It’s become a Saint Patty’s Day tradition in my home. Recipe Serves 6 people. – THE WIFE

Ingredients:

• 1 (3 pound) boneless corned beef brisket
• 1/4 cup honey
• 1 tablespoon Dijon-style mustard

Directions:

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Place corned beef brisket and 2 cups water in Dutch oven and bring just to a simmer on the stovetop over medium-high heat; do not boil. Cover tightly and cook in oven 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 hours or until fork-tender.
2. Remove brisket from water; trim fat. Place on rack in broiler pan so surface of beef is 3 to 4 inches from heat. Combine honey and 1 tablespoon mustard. Brush top of brisket with 1/2 of glaze; broil 3 minutes. Brush with remaining glaze; broil 2 minutes or until glazed.
3. Carve brisket diagonally across the grain. Serve with cabbage and potatoes. -Safeway.Com

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As Tad Friend points out in his new memoir, Cheerful Money: Me, My Family, and the Last Days of WASP Splendor, “Elvis Presley was a white Anglo-Saxon Protestant, as is Bill Clinton, but they are not what anyone means by WASP.” So what, exactly, is a WASP? And how can you tell if you are one? The long answer can be found in Friend’s book. Below is Vogue’s cheat sheet—the WASP Rules, as it were—freely and loosely adapted from the memoir to help anyone with a polo shirt quickly locate himself (or herself) on the WASP index.- Kimberly Straub

- Your full name is at least six syllables, but you have a clubby nickname like Bootsy or Muffy.

- There is really nothing to eat in your fridge, which contains only marmalade, wilted scallions, out-of-season grapes, seltzer, expired dairy products, and vodka. Atop the fridge is some chewy or salty or otherwise challenging snack.

- Your desk is accessorized with dry pens from defunct banks, postage meters for sending first-class letters in 1971, and a classroom’s worth of wooden rulers.

- You play a sport, such as crew, polo, sailing, court tennis, paddle tennis, golf, or skiing, that typically requires a large or intricately carpentered space unusable for any other purpose, expensive equipment, and a willingness to endure cold and/or discomfort.

- You own a sporting-breed dog, named after a strong liquor.

- (For men) You will never experience the pleasures of leather pants or a shark’s tooth on a thong dangling in your chest hair.

- Your temperament alternates between affable and peevish.

- You don’t articulate your upper body in sections; it moves en masse or not at all.

- You are slow to pitch in on manual labor and not particularly handy, though you may pride yourself on the rarely called-for ability to carve a watermelon into the shape of a whale.

- As a youth, you wore Lacoste shirts in a vibrant effusion of pinks, yellows, and greens, flipping up the collar points to appear, in theory, studly.

- You now wear dull, molting colors of khaki and battleship gray, and tweeds.

- In winter, you wear down vests and cardigan sweaters over turtlenecks like an old-time skier (to compensate for setting the thermostat at 60°).

- Your guest room features hand irons for doorstops, ladder-backed chairs with suspect caning, and change dishes inscribed with French sayings—ne parlez pas d’amour—faites le!—and filled with safety pins and bobby pins and orphaned screws.

- You are reserved upon first meeting, used to being told you are intimidating, and slow to depend on people because you hate being disappointed. This has often led people to read you as aloof or smug.

- Your tableware consists of anything that abhors the dishwasher: gold-rimmed chargers, etched-crystal wineglasses, pedestaled fruit plates, egg spoons of translucent horn.

-You subscribe to the belief that you don’t have to do anything you don’t feel like doing in order to establish your financial security, because there will eventually be some sort of inheritance to tide you along.

- You are fiercely—but privately—emotional.

- Your written correspondence is laden with plus signs and ampersands, their deployment suggesting the management of untold complexities unbearably tedious to relate.

- No matter how down in the dumps you are, you respond to “How are you?” with a reflexive “Tip-top!”

-From Vogue.Com