Thursday Thoughts (and Tips)

Here are a few tips for cooking and cleaning, I hope they’re as helpful to you as they are to me->

To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.

If you over-salt a dish while it's still cooking, drop in a peeled potato and it will absorb the excess salt.

Don't throw out leftover wine, freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles, sauces and punch. (ummm I never have left over wine but if YOU do…)

To keep cheese from getting hard, spread with a thin film of butter or margarine, put it in a cool place. This keeps out the air and prevents the cheese from drying out.

To keep chocolate cakes brown on the outside, grease pans and dust with cocoa, instead of flour.

I haaaaate boxed cake mix but if you absolutely have to use it, here’s how you can enhance it, add 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 cup sugar, 1 egg, 1 tsp. baking powder.

Sponges harbor soooo many germs! They are gross but they are the best thing to wash dishes with I buy really cheap sponges from the 99 cents store and use them as disposables, I use one a day and throw them out. I ONLY wash dishes with them I never wipe the counter or stove with them bc all they do is spread germs, for wipe ups I use clorox or lysol disinfecting wipes.

xoxo NiQ