Helpful Hints

DID YOU KNOW?
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. Simple
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.

1. 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.

2. 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
Mixi ng thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze
mixture into egg.
Just throw bag away when done easy clean up.

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Broken Glass
Use a wet cotton ball or Q- tip to pick up the small
shards of glass you
Can't see easily.

7. No More Mosquitoes
Place a dryer sheet in your pocket. It will keep the
mosquitoes away.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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 --
at DA! -- static
Is gone.

11. 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.

12. 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!

13. 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.

14. Conditioner
Use your hair conditioner to shave your legs. It's a
lot 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..

15. 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!

16. 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 &
you don't have the worry about
pets or small children being harmed!

17. 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, 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 t his stuff
builds up on your
clothes and on your lint screen. This is also what
causes dryer
units to catch fire & potentially burn your house down
with it! He said
the best way to keep your dryer working for a very
long time (& to keep
your electric bill lower) is to take that filter out &
wash it with hot
soapy water & 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!
Note: I went to my dryer & t ested m y 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 & a nylon
brush & I had it done in 30 seconds. Then when I
rinsed it the water ran right Thru the screen! There
wasn't any pudding at all! That repairman knew what he
was talking about!

Hope these help