I noticed a discrepancy as well, but I forgot to factor in my pre tax insurance deductions. This made my year end wages total different from what appeared on my W2. This is not cooking the books, it is the correct way of reporting the information. Pre tax insurance deductions do not count as income in the eyes of the IRS. Hope this helps.

Cook Books

That's a GREAT idea. Maybe sponsored by Kenmore.

They used to have Craftsman books on various Tools and Shop Procedures.

The Sewing Machine has a basic book on Machine Sewing.

There used to be a book on using Multi-meters over in the Electrical Department.

Books and various pamphlets would be great value-adds for the stores to offer to Customers.

No one is BORN knowing all this stuff!

:)

ce93 is that you?

Cookbooks and how-to books are now a thing of the past. You can go online for recipies and now even view a how-to video. I couldn't unstop my tub drain. Tried everything. went online. watched some guy's video and whala!

What a swing from Cooking  the financial books to cook books.

 I still us my old cook book from the 60s and 70s. There are great old recipts passed down from generation to generation. Some recipies  cannot be duplicated like ones Grandmother's home made biscut. I asked my grandmother to write it down and I got was what she put into the biscuts etc but a pinch of this and a pinch of that. My home made icecream that I make in a churn is a some of this and a some of that until the taste is right before I put the ice around it and turn the churn on.

goodole312 said…
ce93 is that you?

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hahaha that'd be hilarious

You know, now that I read all of this... I'm shocked Kenmore hasn't come out with a cookbook.  Considering all the stoves, microwaves and grills that Sears sells you'd think this would be a perfect marketing tie-in.

Great idea!

To tie in with that idea, I think it would be a great marketing event to have nice, homemade recipes sent in from Sears shoppers nationwide to make those cookbooks.  The winner can win a Kenmore appliance (or appliances) for the major kitchen cookbook and the grill cookbook winner can win an amazing Kenmore Elite grill!

Sears wins by having amazing recipes and the customers can win recognition and perhaps a fantastic prize!

I second that idea! 

Perhaps we can send in some of our favorite ways of preparing and cooking food.

I used to LOVE them little party weiners they cooked on the George Foreman grill, during the VIP nights, at the other Sears store...

Did I mention having usually worked a full shift at the store, before doing any posting here?

:)

Why would anyone cook a "book"?

That's just unappetising...

I got a simple BBQ cooking technique for corn on the cob:

Just cook the whole thing in the leaves.

The silk just melts/steams away, leaving tender, well-cooked corn, that is not burned.

And, with less work (and butter) than the tin-foil method!

have you submitted the 'idea' for the kenmore series  cookbooks?

Awesome Idea! thatmanguy!  We do get requests for recipe cards and boxes. 

lmerkel said…
Cookbooks and how-to books are now a thing of the past. You can go online for recipies and now even view a how-to video. I couldn't unstop my tub drain. Tried everything. went online. watched some guy's video and whala!

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Digital Media while gaining popularity will NEVER fully take the place of print.  I'm sure there will always be books.

There's something special about handling paper.

It can be an old stained favorite recipe page or a decades old Craftsman catalog.

Anything electronic is inheritantly transient.

A broken link, a new "event" (recipe) and the old version is gone...

I'll stick with books, magazines, and catalogs a little longer.

How about a range, cook top, convection oven, crock pot, microwave, induction heating cook book?

Including a chapter on the George Foreman type grills - of course.

Hey guys, I HAVE a Sears Kenmore microwave cook book from 1981, from when we bought our very first Kenmore microwave. I is a hard cover, yet spiral bound book. Cook books are easiest to use when they lay open flat.

Yaa...

That Joy of Cooking book is a bear to wrestle flat, so I hear.

:)

That thing has too complimicated recipes in it for me.

I'm a Betty Crocker, at best, cook the books cooker.

I'm getting the hang of the family rice cooker, though.

Water, rice, push the button and listen for a "click".

No BEEP.

No programming.

No touch-screen.

No motherboard to go wrong!

Just a click.

:)

It has no motherboard? How can it turn on? You mean it is old school mechanical? It might last too long also. Did you buy an MPA on it?

Does it use gas or electricity?

Both?

This is way too complicated...

I got a great recipe for microwaved hard boiled eggs:

DONT!

They need a cookbook for them Induction type cook tops.

Them things bring water to a full boil in something like only TWO minutes!

That's got to affect stove-top recipes...

If Sears doesn't have it, they should "get" a Cooking on a George Foreman Grill cookbook.

That's a really good little electrical grill, right there.

Drains off the excess fat, too!

Got to be careful, though.

Dumb dogs will try to lick the hot grease right out of the front collecting tray...

HOT!

Dummies!

HOT!

also don't lick a metal pole in the winter. good advice for those that need it

Ope!

Don't hang out underneath them 3 foot long icicles, hang'n off the 3rd story roof eves.

How that Bulldog didn't get smashed on the back steps, by an ice avalanche, I'll never know.

:)

AdamO said…

Why would anyone cook a "book"?

That's just unappetising...

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In my experience, paper is a bit dull.  And I can't imagine chewing through a hardback's cover.  Maybe add some garlic...?  You're right, Adam, that IS unappealing.

But, if you chop it up real... fine, maybe a hash?

Real hash.

With MEAT in it!

Top it off with a fried egg, with its YOKE in place.