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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.
Scrambled Eggs= to really make scrambled eggs or omelettes 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 chocolate mint
patties
In double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful
minty frosting.
Garlic
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. 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 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 s 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.
Hair 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 thecup and gone forever!
Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it
'home,' can'tdigest 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 thehouse 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; hetook the filter over to the
sink and ran hot water over it. The lint filter is made of amesh
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 yourclothes soft and
static free... that nice fragrance too. You know how they can feelwaxy
when you take them out of the box ..well this stuff builds up on your
clothesand on your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units to
potentially burn yourhouse down with it! He said the best way to keep
your dryer working for a very longtime (and to keep your electric bill
lower) is to take that filter out and wash it withhot soapy water and 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 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
through the screen! There wasn't any puddling at all! That repairman knew
what he was talking about!
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.
Scrambled Eggs= to really make scrambled eggs or omelettes 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 chocolate mint
patties
In double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful
minty frosting.
Garlic
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. 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 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 s 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.
Hair 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 thecup and gone forever!
Get Rid of Ants
Put small piles of cornmeal where you see ants. They eat it, take it
'home,' can'tdigest 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 thehouse 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; hetook the filter over to the
sink and ran hot water over it. The lint filter is made of amesh
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 yourclothes soft and
static free... that nice fragrance too. You know how they can feelwaxy
when you take them out of the box ..well this stuff builds up on your
clothesand on your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units to
potentially burn yourhouse down with it! He said the best way to keep
your dryer working for a very longtime (and to keep your electric bill
lower) is to take that filter out and wash it withhot soapy water and 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 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
through the screen! There wasn't any puddling at all! That repairman knew
what he was talking about!
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