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First and foremost, the winner of the chili twister is………….HOLLY!  Congrats Holly, I told my son to pick a number between 1 and 26….my son picked number 11 and that’s your comment #!  Contact me with your mailing address please.

Now for today’s tips!  Some may find this useful and some won’t.  It’s been handy for [...]

Today’s tips will revolve around baking. I LOVE to bake but hate the clean up;)  BTW–I give tips every Tuesday!!

If you like to use insulated baking sheets, don’t run out to the store to buy them; you can simulate them by stacking one regular cookie sheet over another. Be especially careful when you take them [...]

To stay with the Thanksgiving theme, I’m sharing some tips.  These range from cooking to hosting.

Put the ham in the oven on a pretty low temp the night before Thanksgiving you go to bed. Then roast your turkey in the morning. The ham is always juicy and never dry because it cooked slow and low, 
Cover a turkey with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]