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. 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.
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!
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 told us that he wanted to show us
something; 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!
