Tuesday’s Tips – Simplifying the Clean Up

With the holiday season around the corner, baking will be overtaking the kitchen.  A couple of thing you can do to make the clean up a breeze are:

Use those nonstick liners for your baking sheets!  Most of them are reuseable but because I’m lazy, I just use them and toss them.  It saves me some… [Continue Reading]

Measurement Equivalents 1

I can never remember what equals what, so I thought it would be handy to put some conversions on a list to use for reference.  Here we go!
       AMOUNT————EQUIVALENT

pinch/dash…………..1/16 tsp
1/2 tsp…………………30 drops
1 tsp…………………….1/3 tbls
3 tsp…………………….1 tbls
1/2 tbls…………………1 1/2 tsp
1 tbls…………………….3 tsp; 1/2 fl oz
2 tbls…………………….1/8 c; 1 fl oz
3 tbls…………………….1 1/2 fl oz
4 tbls…………………….1/4 c; 2… [Continue Reading]

Cooking Tips Passed Down

Here are a few tips that will make things better or easier. These have been passed down through generations so you know they work;)
Bacon – Minimize bacon shrinkage by running bacon under water before frying.
Beans – A tablespoon of bicarbonate of soda in a large pot of beans while soaking them, the ‘flatulence’ caused by… [Continue Reading]