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Kitchen WisdomStuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of an ice cream cone to prevent ice cream drips.Just suck the ice cream out of the bottom of the cone, for Pete's sake! You are probably lying on the couch with your feet up eating it anyway!To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.Buy Hungry Jack mashed potato mix. Keeps in the pantry for up to a year.When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead and there won't be any white mess on the outside of the cake.Go to the bakery!Are You A Martha or A Maxine?
Are you a Martha or Maxine? *Martha's Way Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of a sugar cone to prevent ice cream drips. *Maxine's Way Just suck the ice cream out of the bottom of the cone, for Pete's sake!Apple Crisp: for those too lazy to make a proper pie crust
I made an apple crisp with apples from the aunt and uncle's orchard¹. No huge story today, just a recipe and some photos. Sorry things aren't precise but think of them as guidelines.The Dirty Dozen: Top 12 Foods to Eat Organic
Courtesy of MSN: http://green.msn.com/galleries/photos/photos.aspx?gid=164&ocid=T003MSN51N1653A 1. Beef According to the Environmental Protection Agency, "meat contains higher levels of pesticides than any of the plant foods." Pesticides end up in the environment, then in the animal, and then in you.Organic Produce Priorities
FitSugar recently posted "May The Food Be With You: Organic Food Meets Star Wars", which had a great Star Wars themed video about why you should choose organic fruit and vegetables over conventional ones. If you can't afford to or choose not to buy all-organic (I know I can't afford to!) what do you do? How do you decide what to buy?Eye look for women wearing glasses.
This look was requested by almost famous. She wanted a look for women wearing glasses. As you probably have seen in some of the pictures I wear lenses, but I do have an old set of glasses somewhere in the closet, so I put it on when I was done with the makeup.
Flaky Apple Turnovers
Flaky Apple Turnovers (Baking: From My Home to Yours by Dorie Greenspan)
For the turnover dough:
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup sugar
4 cups all-purpose flour
1 tsp. salt
1-1/2 cups (3 sticks) unsalted butter, cold, cut into tiny pieces
In a bowl, combine the sour cream and sugar and set aside. In a large bowl, combine the all-purpose flour and salt.
Did You Know Any Of These.....
THINGS YOU SHOULD KNOW BUT PROBABLY DON'T 1. Money isn't made out of paper. It's made out of cotton.Fruit people vs. Vegetable people
I was reading the Prevention.com blogs and I came across this interesting blog by food psychologist Brian Wansick. He talks about some differences that have been noted between people who are fruit lovers vs. veggie lovers.actors originally offered parts, script changes, deleted scenes, and random interesting facts
I saw this over at ohnotheydidnt and thought it was really fun to read! I took the most interesting ones from the original post to share here. "We all love movies, and its interesting to find out that the final cut we see in theatres or on TV isn't always what was originally imagined or intended by the creators.
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