Wednesday, February 2, 2011

Helpful Ideas for in the Kitchen

Here are some clever ideas worth knowing to help you out when cooking!

*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 you 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
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 by placing 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-seen on the cooking channel.

*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
baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done easy clean up!!

*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.

Be sure to check out our blog next week, we will have more helpful hints to help you around your house.

If you don't feel like cleaning, just give Maid to Order a call! We'll leave your house spotless!!
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