Neat and helpful things to know (OT)

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Neat and helpful things to know

 

 

 

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:35:33 -0700

 

 

 

Jan Slama <slamajama2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neat

and helpful things to know

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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, 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!

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 but 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.(We found this works for

deer as well to keep them out of our roses. Put some cayenne pepper in

an old nylon stocking and tie the stocking to the rose bush. Saved the

rose buds and we had beautiful roses this summer.)

 

 

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 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 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

 

 

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 and 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.

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. That perserves 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!

 

PLEASE PASS

THIS ON TO OTHER PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. NOT ONLY COULD IT SAVE

SOMEONE'S HOME, BUT IT COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THUNDER

 

 

u

can cage a animal but u cant cage its rage keep ur knees in the breese

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Great hints, thanks. I did not know about the dryer sheets.-lenosan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grannie <GrannieFox

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Sun, Apr 11, 2010 2:08 pm

Neat and helpful things to know (OT)

 

 

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Neat and helpful things to know

 

 

 

Sun, 11 Apr 2010 13:35:33 -0700

 

 

 

Jan Slama <slamajama2

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Neat

and helpful things to know

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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, 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!

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 but 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.(We found this works for

deer as well to keep them out of our roses. Put some cayenne pepper in

an old nylon stocking and tie the stocking to the rose bush. Saved the

rose buds and we had beautiful roses this summer.)

 

 

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 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 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

 

 

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 and 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.

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. That perserves 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!

 

PLEASE PASS

THIS ON TO OTHER PEOPLE IN YOUR ADDRESS BOOK. NOT ONLY COULD IT SAVE

SOMEONE'S HOME, BUT IT COULD SAVE SOMEONE'S LIFE.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

THUNDER

 

 

u

can cage a animal but u cant cage its rage keep ur knees in the breese