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.
1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
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.
5. 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 forget
about weeds. Weeds will get through some gardening plastic
they will not get through wet newspapers.
6. Broken Glass:
Use a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards
of glass you can't see easily.
7. No More Mosquitoes:
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It
will keep the mosquitoes away.
8. 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.
9. 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 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 is gone.
11. 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.
12. Foggy Windshield?:
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 better than a cloth!
13. 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.
14. 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...
15. 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!
16. 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 & you don't have the worry about pets or
small children being harmed! |