DID
YOU KNOW?
Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to pick the little
"stringy things" off of 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. (Try
putting some cream of mushroom soup, too - really good.)
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. Then
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.
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.
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. The
same
thing works with slacks that cling when wearing panty hose. Place
a
pin in seam of slacks and -- ta da! -- static is gone. (Friend
told me if you rub a dryer sheet on your slip or whatever that will
keep static cling 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 windows 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. (can
also put the sealed part of envelope over steam and it will open it).
Conditioner
:
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's a lot 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...
Good-bye 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 wahing 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 & you don't have the
worry about pets or small children being harmed! (Grits
work, too - blow those little pests up)
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 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 through
the screen! There wasn't any puddling at all! That repairman knew what
he was talking about!
PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO OTHER PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. NOT ONLY
COULD IT SAVE SOMEONE'S HOME, BUT IT COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE