We love fresh mozzarella sliced in salads, but it tends to shred rather than slice. Try using an egg slicer to make quick, uniform rounds.

Michael Jackson’s untimely death will undoubtedly dominate the news for a while – days, possibly weeks. 24-hour cable channels, newspapers, tabloids, blog-sites and even the major broadcast networks will frantically report every breaking news detail emerging from the circumstances of his death, and saturate us with retrospectives on his life, career, quirks and legal troubles.

I learned this from Chef Carol Dearth of the Sizzleworks Cooking School, when she was in our studio making Wasabi Mashed Potatoes for our Northwest Favorites show in May 2009.

The audience was on their feet before the show ended. When the hoots and hollers eventually settled, I turned to my date and we smiled and simply shrugged in total awe. No words necessary. Simply in awe.

We have been fielding a lot of calls and e-mails regarding the DTV transition and viewers not receiving KCTS 9. If you haven't re-scanned your DTV converter box or digital TV since Friday, June 12, please do so immediately.

A knife just doesn't cut it with those rounds of soft goat cheese. Try a length of dental floss (the plain, Teflon-y kind is best). Arrange it under the log of goat cheese, cross the ends over the top in an "x" and pull, making a neat slice.

Calls are coming in to our in-house call center and the biggest question is rescanning. If you had a digital TV or converter box working with KCTS 9 before today, and now aren't getting us... it's because we switched digital channels from UHF 41 to VHF 9. (For the full story, click here.)

It's a few minutes past 4:00 a.m. in Seattle and we just put the new KCTS 9 digital transmitter on-air.

This transmitter is on VHF channel 9 where our old transmitter has been.

Click here for digital transition help

I'm here at the KCTS 9 transmitter with our transmitter engineer Tim and it's almost time for the analog shut off.

In about 20 minutes we will be shutting down the KCTS 9 analog transmitter. We will also shut off the current KCTS 9 digital transmitter that's operating on channel 41.

We unearthed this mystery utensil during a recent KCTS kitchen cleanout, and don’t have the faintest idea what it is. Any guesses? On the neck it says "Regd 911032 Made in England."

The UFO is about 7 inches long, wood-grain plastic handle.

Can anybody help?