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. Simple 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.
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.
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.
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.
4. 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.
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 forget about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening
plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass you
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes 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.
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 narrow openings.
10. 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
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.
Hate foggy windshields?
Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the
glove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub
with the eraser! Works
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.
Use your hair
conditioner to shave your legs. It's a lot 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
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!
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 & you don't have the worry about
pets
or small children being harmed!
17. 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 filter after every
load clothes.)
He took the filter over to the sink, 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 t his stuff builds
up on your
clothes and on your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units to
catch fire & potentially burn
your house down with it! He said the best
way to keep your dryer working for a very long time (&
to keep your
electric bill lower) is to take that filter out & wash it with hot soapy
water & 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 & 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 & a nylon brush & I
had it done in 30 seconds. Then when
I rinsed it the water ran right
Thru the screen! There wasn't any pudding at all! That repairman
knew
what he was talking about!
