Protect your hands!

Those recipes that start off on the stovetop in a skillet and then move to the oven to finish cooking are great...right up until the moment you forget that the skillet was in the oven and, without thinking, reach over and grab the handle. Yikes! Been there, burnt that. Here's my simple solution: instead of grabbing a hot pad to take the skillet out of the oven, slip an oven mitt over the handle, then leave it there. It will remind you that the pan was in the oven and it will protect you from the blazing hot metal if you do reach over and grab it.