Some of the tips are quite interesting but you’ll find
very useful.
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. Separate 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.
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
you want a stronger taste of garlic.
Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It
will help pull the grease away from the meat while
cooking.
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 forget about weeds. Weeds will get
through some gardening plastic buy 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 narrow 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 is 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 filter 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 e very 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
paddling at all! That repairman knew what he was talking
about!
Share this page. You could not only save someone's
home but you could save someone's life.
Tim
|