Peel a banana
from the bottom and you won't have to
pick the little
'stringy things' off of it. That's how the primates do it.
Take your
bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them
connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
Store your opened
chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay
fresh much longer and not mold!
Peppers with 3
bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4
bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.
Add a teaspoon of
water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull
the grease away from the meat while cooking.
To really
make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of
spoonfuls of sour
cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.
For a cool
brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt
Andes mints
in double broiler
and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful minty
frosting.
Add garlic
immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste
of garlic and at
the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of garlic.
Leftover
snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply
chop them up with
the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a few apples. Place them
in a baking dish
and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the apples. Bake at 350
for 15
minutes!!! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream. Yummm!
Reheat
Pizza
Heat up leftover
pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heat to
med-low
and heat till
warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw
this on
the cooking
channel and it really works.
Easy Deviled
Eggs
Put cooked egg
yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all broken up.
Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up mixing
thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg.
Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
Expanding
Frosting
When you buy a
container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with your mixer
for a few
minutes. You can double it in size. You get to frost more
cake/cupcakes
with the same
amount. You also eat less sugar and calories per serving.
Reheating
refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits,
pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place them in
a microwave with
a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the food
moist and help it
reheat faster.
Newspaper
weeds away
Start putting in
your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wet newspapers,
put layers around
the plants overlapping as you go cover with mulch and for-
get about weeds.
Weeds will get through some gardening plastic they will not
get through wet
newspapers.
Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton
ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you can't see
easily.
No More
Mosquitoes
Place a dryer
sheet in your pocket.
It will keep the
mosquitoes away.
Squirrel Away!
To keep squirrels
from eating your plants, sprinkle your plants with cayenne pepper.
The cayenne
pepper doesn't hurt the plant and the squirrels won't come near
it.
Flexible
vacuum
To get something
out of a heat register or under the fridge add an empty paper
towel
roll or empty
gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bent or flattened to get
in nar-
row openings.
Reducing Static
Cling
Pin a small
safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have a clingy
skirt
or dress. Same
thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose.
Place pin in seam
of slacks and ... ta da! ... static is gone.
Measuring Cups
Before you pour
sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hot water.
Dump out the hot
water, but don't dry cup.. Next, add your ingredient, such
as peanut butter,
and watch how easily it comes right out.
Foggy
Windshield?
Hate foggy
windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the glove box
of
your car . When
the window s fog, rub with the eraser! Works better than a cloth!
Reopening
envelope
If you seal an
envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside,
just place your
sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It
unseals
easily.
Conditioner
Use your hair
conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shaving cream
and
leaves your legs
really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner you
bought but didn't
like when you tried it in your hair.
Goodbye Fruit
Flies
To get rid of
pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it 1/2' with Apple
Cider Vinegar
and 2 drops of
dish washing liquid; mix well. You will find those flies drawn to
the
cup and gone
forever!
Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles
of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it 'home,' can't
digest it so it
kills them. It may take a week or so, especially if it rains, but
it works
and you don't
have the worry about pets or small children being harmed!
INFO ABOUT
CLOTHES DRYERS
The heating unit
went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes things around the
house for us told
us that he wanted to show us something and he went over to the
dryer and pulled
out the lint filter. It was clean. (I always clean the lint from
the fil-
ter after every
load clothes.) He told us that he wanted to show us something; he
took the filter
over to the sink and ran hot water over it. The lint filter is
made of a
mesh
material ... I'm sure you know what your dryer's lint filter looks
like.. Well ...
the hot water
just sat on top of the mesh! It didn't go through it at all! He
told us
that dryer sheets
cause a film over that mesh that's what burns out the heating
unit.
You can't SEE
the film, but it's there. It's what is in the dryer sheets to make
your
clothes soft and
static free ... that nice fragrance too. You know how they can
feel
waxy when you
take them out of the box .... well this stuff builds up on your
clothes
and on your lint
screen. This is also what causes dryer units to potentially burn
your
house down with
it! He said the best way to keep your dryer working for a very
long
time (and to
keep your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out and wash
it with
hot soapy
water and an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every six
months.
He said that
makes the life of the dryer at least twice as long! How about
that!?!
Learn something
new everyday! I certainly didn't know dryer sheets would do that.
So, I thought
I'd share!
Note: I went to
my dryer and tested my screen by running water on it. The water
ran
through a little
bit but mostly collected all the water in the mesh screen. I
washed it
with warm soapy
water and a nylon brush and I had it done in 30 seconds.. Then
when
I rinsed it ...
the water ran right thru the screen! There wasn't any puddling at
all! T
hat repairman
knew what he was talking about!
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