Wednesday, April 16, 2008

Interesting things to know...


Bananas
Originally uploaded by Dr. GORI ( PJr.)
My friend, Dolores, sent this to me. I wanted to share it with you all. It is pretty interesting and fun.

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.

Add cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat the eggs. To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream.

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.

Reheat Pizza: Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set heatto 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 is 2%.

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Thanks be to God!!

12 comments:

  1. Wow, Thank you for posting this! (haha, i've got to try them all now!) My family likes cooking, so this post really comes in handy.
    Have a great day!!

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  2. Thanks, cy, I'm going to give them a try to. I have to get some bananas though. I have none in the house right now. Good day to you!

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  3. Well now . . . my mouth is watering just reading this! Please thank Dolores for me. The Snickers/apples tip sounds delicious . . . I think I'll go to the store and buy some . . . why wait for Halloween leftovers? :)

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  4. Wow! These are great ~ I'm printing out this list! (Also, LOVE the new tune!)

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  5. I LOVE that banana tip . . . in our family we call those "strings" shoelaces, and we hate them!

    God bless.

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  6. Cathy,

    These are really interesting and helpful facts to know.

    Thank you for taking the time to share them with us.

    God Bless,

    Kathy

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  7. That's brilliant, I'm hopeless in the kitchen.

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  8. I've never heard of any of these except for the Snickers. They're all great tips. That's incredible about the frosting. Thanks, Cathy!

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  9. I too think that these are the greatest tips...Not only because they are insightful, but because they involve FOOD. Eating, a wonderful pastime don't you think? Thank you all!

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  10. very intersting tips! Thanks for sharing!!!

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  11. These ARE awesome tips! I will implement many! Thank you. I'd like to pass along two of my mom's, and to ask what is the general consensus on one. She always ran the cold water after using the hot water faucet so that whomever came along after her to wash hands or get a drink etc. wouldn't be scalded. She also put all sharps pointed end down in the dish drainer so that when adding other silverware to it, or putting it away, no one would get poked. My son always puts the knives tip-end up; his argument is that when tip-side down, they're sitting in that nasty sludge in the bottom of the flatware drainer (uh, his drainer..not mine,lol). That's sort of a Catch-22 like a friend's who said of vegetarianism for the sake of protecting-respecting animals, "Yes, but, if you're now eating all their grains and greens.. what favor are you doing them?" Things like that hurt my brain, but anyway, what about the sharps? What say you, folks?

    (Carol)

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  12. Oh thank you Cathy. These are such great tips, interesting, practical and helpful.

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