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. MeltAndesmints
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 fromHalloweenmake
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 choppedcandy
barsover
the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or
with vanilla ice cream. Yum
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 emptygift
wraproll
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 wearingpanty
hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and -- ta da!
-- static is gone.
11.Measuring
Cups
Before you pour sticky substances into ameasuring
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
thanshaving
creamand
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 ofAnts
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 ABOUTCLOTHES
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 this
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!
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO OTHER PEOPLE. NOT ONLY COULD IT SAVE
SOMEONE'S HOME, BUT IT COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.
