DID YOU KNOW?
Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have
to pick the little 'stringy things' off
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; then beat
them.
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. Simply
chop them 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 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 onthe food 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 mixerfor a few minutes. You can double
it in size and get to frost more cake/cupcakeswith
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 next to a cup of water. The increased moisture will
keep the food
moist and help it reheat faster.
Newspaper weeds away
Start putting torn newspaper 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 skirtor 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 (peanut butter, honey, etc.) and watch how easily it
comes right out.
Foggy
Windshield?
Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in the
glove box ofyour 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 unsealseasily.
Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than
shaving cream andleaves your legs
really smooth. It's also a great way to use up the conditioner
youbought 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 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 of clothes.)
He took 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 your
clothes soft and static free. You know how they can feel
waxy 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
your
house down with it! He said the best way to keep your dryer
working for a very 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
at least every six months.
He said that increases 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 thru the screen! There wasn't
any puddling at all! That repairman knew what he was talking
about!