1. Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.. I didn't know
that!
2. Store your opened
chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!
3. 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.
4. Add a teaspoon of
water when frying ground beef. It will help pull the grease away from the meat
while cooking.
5. To 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.
6. 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.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. Newspaper weeds
away: Plant your plants in the ground, work the nutrients in your soil. Then
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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. Pin a small
safety pin to the seam of your slip to eliminate static cling. It works; 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.
15. 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.
16. De-fog your
windshield: 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!
17. Re-opening
envelopes: 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. Voila! It unseals easily.
18. 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.
19. 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 an d gone forever!
20. 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!
21. Wash your dryer
filter: Did you know that cleaning your lint trap with a dryer sheet can ruin
it? 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, and smell good. You know how they
can feel waxy when you take them out of the box? Apparently that stuff builds
up on your clothes and on your lint screen. This is what causes dryer units to
potentially burn your house down with it! You can test it by running the lint
trap under water. If the water goes through you are good. If not then you need
to clean it. The best way to keep your dryer working for a 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 every six months.
22. Drop a small
object on the carpet and can't find it. Place panty hose over the end of the
vacuum hose and start vacuuming. The panty hose will trap anything to large to
fit through the tiny hose and keep it from getting sucked into the vacuum.
23. Wearing a skirt
or dress on a windy day. Cut open a few sections on the bottom seam. slip in
some heavy washers or flat weights (anything small heavy and flat will work)
then sew the seam back up.
24. Need to cut some
corn off the cob. Use your bundt pan. Place the ear on the opening in the
center of the pan, and as you slide the knife down the ear, all the kernels
will collect in the main part of the pan
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