Did You Know??? Some great tips!

[Christy Eckert]

Did You Know???

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. Also, take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
Cheese

Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!

Peppers

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.

Ground Beef

Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

Eggs

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.

Brownies

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.

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.

Snicker Bars

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 for 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 try the cup. Next add your ingredient, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes right out.

Foggy Windshield?

Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep in glove compartment. When window fogs, rub with eraser. Works better than a cloth.

Reopening Envelopes

If you seal an envelope and realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or tow. Viola! It unseals easily.

Goodbye Fruit Flies

To get rid if pesky fruit flies, take a small glass, fill it ½” with Apple Cide 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!

About Clothes Dryers

Dryer sheets cause a film over the mesh of your lint filter and that’s what burns out the heating unit. You can’t see the film, but it’s there. Take the filter out and wash it with hot soapy water and an old toothbrush (or other brush) at least every 6 months.

[Tonya]

Fabulous tips. Thank you.

[Lilith Silvermane]

Great tips!! Thanks oodles... very eco-friendly ways of dealing with day to day things as well!

[JamericanSpice]

I love these. Some I knew before but these are really good. Thanks for sharing.