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Smell of Citrus
Take an orange or lemon "anything with a peel" cut it in half dig out the fruit and pour about 1/4 of a cup of salt into the rind. Set on top of fridge or any place out of reach of children.. the salt will pull the fragrance out and fill your house up with your favorite citrus scent.
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Smelly Onion Hands- No More!
To get rid of that awful smell on your hands after chopping onions, just grab anything made of stainless steel (a spoon, spatula, measuring cup, etc.) While holding the item, run your hand under cool running water. Within seconds, smell is gone. Honest
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Soft Cookies
To keep home baked cookies soft, place them in a air tight container after they cool and put a half slice of bread in the the container. The cookies will stay soft and moist.
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Solve the Burned Rice Problem
If you have ever burned rice while cooking it, here is a tried and true method to eliminate that smokey taste from the rice. Take a small glass, approximately 4 oz., you want to be able to fit it inside the pot that the rice was cooked in. Place the rice in the center of the pot of rice, pushing it in until only the bottom of the glass shows through the rice. Place the cover back on the pot and let it sit for ten - fifteen minutes, depending on how much rice you have prepared. The glass absorbs the smoke from the rice, and although you may still smell the smoke there will be no burned flavor to your rice.
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spagetti sauce with hidden extras
I am an Australian mother to 6 kids. One of our family favourites for dinner is spagetti bolognaise. I cook it in bulk (10lbs of ground beef), add lots of pureed tomatoes, onions (finely diced), garlic and oregano and then stretch it with about 2lbs red lentils and 3lbs grated carrots. The lentils and carrots turn into mush as you cook it and the kids don't even know they are eating 'health food'. I freeze it in family sized portions so that when we are busy I just need to cook the pasta while the sauce defrosts in the microwave. Serve with grated cheese.
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Splattering Oil
To keep you frying pan oil from splattering,
add a little salt to the cold oil before you place the pan on the heat.
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Sprouting onions
I hate when you don't use all your onions fast enough and they start to sprout. To avoid this, place an apple in the bag along with the onions and they will last a lot longer.
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Stain Remover For Hands
Potatoes will take food stains off your fingers. Just
slice and rub raw potato on the stains and rinse with water.
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steaming or using a double broiler?
Put 3-4 marbles in the bottom of a double broiler. If you forget to check the water level and it boils away, the rattling of the marbles will remind you to add more.
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Stop Curling Bacon
To keep bacon from curling, dip it in cold water before frying.
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Stop the Hassle of Deciding What to Fix for Dinner
I often found myself worrying about what to fix for dinner each evening that was not only healthy but something different than we had the night before. So, I decided to take 30 minutes each Saturday while my infant takes a nap to set with my cookbooks and grocery list and make a meal plan for the week. Not only does this help me save money at the grocery store by buying only what I need, but it helps me organize my coupons so I get the best use of them and of my money. It also helps my husband and I use the menu as a tool for working together as a team to get supper cooked, especially when our baby is having a fussy night.
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storage
Save your shower caps from hotels or buy
some in the dollar stores and cover your
left over food in any dish that it will cover.
Keeps fresh and can see thru it. Can be washed to
use again.
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Storing Koolaid packets
Use an empty diapers wipe container to store your kool aid packets. No more packets found 3 months later in the back of the cabinet. Be sure to wash the wipes container well to remove any perfume smell.
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Strecthing It Out
This is kinda two tips in one a have a 5 person family and my children lover hamburger helper the problem one box isn't enough and two is too much. The only one eating the leftovers is me so instead of making two I would add a little bit more noddles a kid friendly kind, of course! And just make enough for dinner. Not only is it cheaper but it is just as tasty another tip if you ever run out of the handy hambuger helper you can substitute mac and cheese With a pound of ground beef for the cheeseburger helper . the kids will never know.
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sub sandwich oil
this is a cheap way of making a oil for your own homemade subs. We made this and took it to a concert with all our own sub ingredients and it was great.
1/2 cup balsmic vinagar
1 cup virgin olive oil
1 TBLS italian seasoning
1 teasp black pepper
1 TBLS garlic powder
Mix all togather in a bottle or something
(we used a clean Pepsi bottle)
Let sit in fridge over night so the flavor has a chance to blend
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