thanks for this one frank,,, learned alot too...
1. 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.
2. Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. If youleave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster.
3. Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil. It will stayfresh much longer and not mold!
4. Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better foreating. Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better forcooking.
5. Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef. It will help pullthe grease away from the meat while cooking.
6. To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple ofspoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beatthem up.
7. For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed. Melt Andesmints in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for awonderful minty frosting.
8. Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste ofgarlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste ofgarlic.
9. Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert.Simple chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core and slice a fewapples. Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy barsover the apples. Bake at 350 for 15 minutes!!! Serve alone or withvanilla ice cream. Yum
1 0 . Reheat PizzaHeat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, setheat to med-low and heat till warm. This keeps the crust crispy. Nosoggy micro pizza. I saw this on the cooking channel and it reallyworks.
11. Easy Deviled EggsPut cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are allbroken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it upmixing thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg.Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.
12. Expanding FrostingWhen you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it withyour mixer for a few minutes. You can double it in size. You get tofrost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat less sugarand calories per serving.
13. Reheating refrigerated breadTo warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, placethem in a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture willkeep the food moist and help it reheat faster.
14. Newspaper weeds awayStart putting in your plants, work the nutrients in your soil. Wetnewspapers, put layers around the plants overlapping as you go coverwith mulch and forget about weeds. Weeds will get through somegardening plastic they will not get through wet newspapers.
15. Broken GlassUse a wet cotton ball or Q-tip to pick up the small shards of glass youcan't see easily.
16. No More MosquitoesPlace a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the mosquitoes away.
17. Squirrel Away!To keep squirrels from eating your plants sprinkle your plants withcayenne pepper. The cayenne pepper doesn't hurt the plant and thesquirrels won't come near it.
18. Flexible vacuumTo get something out of a heat register or under the fridge add an emptypaper towel roll or empty gift wrap roll to your vacuum. It can be bentor flattened to get in narrow openings.
19. Reducing Static ClingPin a small safety pin to the seam of your slip and you will not have aclingy skirt or dress. Same thing works with slacks that cling whenwearing panty hose. Place pin in seam of slacks and -- ta da! -- staticis gone.
20. Measuring CupsBefore you pour sticky substances into a measuring cup, fill with hotwater. Dump out the hot water, but don't dry cup. Next, add youringredien t, such as peanut butter, and watch how easily it comes rightout.
21. Foggy Windshield?Hate foggy windshields? Buy a chalkboard eraser and keep it in theglove box of your car. When the windows fog, rub with the eraser!Works better than a cloth!
22. Reopening envelopeIf you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include somethinginside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour ortwo. Viola! It unseals easily.
23. ConditionerUse your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's cheaper than shavingcream and leaves your legs really smooth. It's also a great way to useup the conditioner you bought but didn't like when you tried it in yourhair...
24. Good-bye Fruit FliesTo get rid of pesky fruit flies, take a small glass fill it 1/2" withApple Cider Vinegar and 2 drops of dish washing liquid, mix well. Youwill find those flies drawn to the cup and gone forever! Make sure theyou don't put it in a paper cup on top of a wood surface - theingredients will eat through the cup and leave a ring!!
25. Get Rid of AntsPut 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 aboutpets or small children being harmed!
26. INFO ABOUT CLOTHES DRYERSThe heating unit went out on my dryer! The gentleman that fixes thingsaround the house for us told us that he wanted to show us something andhe 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.) Hetold us that he wanted to show us something; he took the filter over tothe sink, ran hot water over it. The lint filter is made of a meshmaterial - 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 throughit at all! He told us that dryer sheets cause a film over th at meshthat's what burns out the heating unit. You can't SEE the film, but it'sthere. It's what is in the dryer sheets to make your clothes soft andstatic free -- that nice fragrance too, you know how they can feel waxywhen you take them out of the box, well this stuff builds up on yourclothes and on your lint screen. This is also what causes dryer units tocatch fire & potentially burn your house down with it! He said the bestway to keep your dryer working for a very long time (& to keep yourelectric bill lower) is to take that filter out & wash it with hot soapywater & 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! Howabout that!?! Learn something new everyday! I certainly didn't knowdryer sheets would do that. So, I thought I'd share!
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