| T O P I C R E V I E W |
| aimeeravae |
Posted - Jun 02 2008 : 09:56:18 AM
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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 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!
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 and 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 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 (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!
Aimee
"Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic."-Rosalind Russell |
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| LauraH |
Posted - Jul 15 2008 : 5:16:40 PM
Great tips! I never heard the one about peppers with 3 or 4 bumps..
interesting!
Laura
http://cottagekids-laura.blogspot.com |
| StitchinWitch |
Posted - Jul 15 2008 : 2:30:30 PM
A safety pin on my undies?? Horrors! When I was little I was always told never to have safety pins on because what if you were in an accident or something and had to go to the hospital and wouldn't you be so embarrassed to have a safety pin on your slip or dirty underwear? It wasn't until years later that I realized that if I had to suddenly go to the hospital a safety pin would be the least of my worries......
Happiness is Homemade |
| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 15 2008 : 05:34:53 AM
gonna' go downstairs right now and try the measuring cup . hot water and peanut butter trick! that is a GREAT idea!
thanks!
True Friends * Frannie
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 15 2008 : 05:33:50 AM
LOVE the cornmeal idea! my daughter has teeeeeeeeensy little ants (she freaks if she even sees ONE in her kitchen) ..i'm gonna' tell her about this one!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 15 2008 : 05:32:38 AM
i've also used 'body lotion' to shave my legs with .. gums the razor a little bit .. but i like the feel.
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 15 2008 : 05:31:38 AM
HA! ... the little 'envelope opening' trick might be a good one to get a peek at sumpthin' we're not supposed to peek at!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 15 2008 : 05:30:09 AM
oh .. p.s. BANANAS HAVE STRINGS?
HA! guess i just eat them!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| CabinCreek-Kentucky |
Posted - Jul 15 2008 : 05:28:50 AM
thanks for posting .. love these ideas!
True Friends * Frannie
adopt a 'rag-chile'
http://sistermercysfoundlinhome.blogspot.com
treasures .. new and olde .. http://mudpiemanormercantile.blogspot.com
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| MissWhit |
Posted - Jul 14 2008 : 08:35:55 AM
Thanks!! Wonderful ideas :)
"The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest." Thomas More
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| Bird |
Posted - Jul 14 2008 : 04:31:38 AM
Thanks Aimee! I got to print out the tips this time. Lorrie
Your mind becomes what you feed it. |
| SusieQue |
Posted - Jul 13 2008 : 4:55:38 PM
Great tips....some of them I really needed! |
| mommom |
Posted - Jul 12 2008 : 2:03:06 PM
Thank you so much! I'm never to old to learn! Susan |
| Ronna |
Posted - Jul 11 2008 : 7:37:48 PM
I have to dispute the very first one. My husband always peels from the bottom end of the banana and still pulls several "strings" off before eating. He and our daughter are so picky about some things, that being one.
The last one, on not using dryer sheets or washing the filter if you do, is very true. If you notice the top of your dryer getting quite hot, it's time to make sure the filter is letting air through and/or the vent is not clogged with lint as it leaves the back or bottom of the unit. |
| chessie |
Posted - Jun 05 2008 : 6:56:27 PM
great tips! here's one for you and your friend,
I learned this from an organic Avocado grower around here. Once you buy an avocado flick out the stem, with your fingernail. It's easy. Growers leave them on deliberately to slow down the ripening and lengthen the harvest shelf life. I now flick them out at the store.
Love this thread, Karen
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| Pearlsnjeans |
Posted - Jun 03 2008 : 7:36:06 PM
Thanks for the tips! I especially like the one about taking bananas apart. Almost green bananas are the best and they always seem to ripen too fast.
Vicki
Farmgirl Sister #120
Farmgirls are elegant |
| BarnChickCecily |
Posted - Jun 03 2008 : 6:19:16 PM
Great tips! Thanks for posting them! |
| aimeeravae |
Posted - Jun 03 2008 : 11:01:29 AM
A friend of mine emails me these all the time. I collect them up and save them then share. Anyone else have them?
Aimee
"Taking joy in life is a woman's best cosmetic."-Rosalind Russell |
| FarmWife410 |
Posted - Jun 02 2008 : 11:56:43 AM
What great tips!!! Thanks for sharing, I am going to have to print these out for future reference! |
