Kitchen Hints (Post 54)

If you want to start your own ten cent crazy book - read post 1-4 to find out how

Here's some fun kitchen hints to add to your ten cent crazy book

Watery Soup - mix together, one tablespoon of butter and some flour - whisk it into the soup

If something is to salty add sugar

If your coffee is bitter, add a pinch of salt

If you don't know how old your eggs are - put them in a bowl of water - a rotten egg will float to the top

Do you have any plastic bowls with lids? - Fill them half full with water and keep lettuce or celery in them - it will stay fresh and crispy in the fridge for what seems like forever.

Is your chili to spicy? - add a can of crushed pineapple.

Is your sauce to sweet? - add a little lemon juice

Hard cookies - wrap in a paper towel with a few slices of apple and microwave for about 5 seconds

When measuring anything sticky (syrup, honey etc.) spray your measuring cup with oil, everything will slip right out.

Every year, I teach at least one person to core lettuce - this to me is amazing. When you get home with that next head of lettuce, remove it from the package, remove the outside leafs and bang the hard flat core side onto a table or kitchen counter - probably just once, maybe twice, you will probably feel it break. Now turn the lettuce over and with your thumb and fingertips, twist the core - it should come right out, and the whole rest of the head of lettuce can be cut up and used or of course put it in your plastic bowl of water, in the fridge and it will last until you need it.

Follow me for more crazy book ideas