Kitchen

[ciao_bella]

I received this in an email recently and thought it might be interesting to share.....Barb

Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store.
If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen faster..


Store your opened chunks of cheese in aluminum foil.
It will stay fresh much longer and not mold!


Peppers with 3 bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.
Peppers with 4 bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.


Add a teaspoon of water when frying ground beef.
It will help pull the grease away from the meat while cooking.

To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls
of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream in and then beat them up.


For a cool brownie treat, make brownies as directed.. Melt Andes mints
in double broiler and pour over warm brownies. Let set for a wonderful
minty frosting.


Add garlic immediately to a recipe if you want a light taste
Of garlic and at the end of the recipe if your want a stronger taste of
garlic.
Leftover snickers bars from Halloween make a delicious dessert. Simply
chop them up with the food chopper. Peel, core, and slice a few apples.
Place them in a baking dish and sprinkle the chopped candy bars over the
apples.

Bake at 350 for 15 minutes! Serve alone or with vanilla ice cream.
Yummm!


Reheat Pizza
Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove, set
heat to med-low and heat till warm.
This keeps the crust crispy. No soggy micro pizza. I saw this on the
cooking channel and it really works.


Easy Deviled Eggs
Put cooked egg yolks in a zip lock bag. Seal, mash till they are all
broken up.
Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing it up, mixing
thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just
throw bag away when done easy clean up.


Expanding Frosting
When you buy a container of cake frosting from the store, whip it with
your mixer for a few minutes.

You can double it in size.
You get to frost more cake/cupcakes with the same amount. You also eat
less sugar and calories per serving.


Reheating refrigerated bread
To warm biscuits, pancakes, or muffins that were refrigerated, place
them in
a microwave with a cup of water. The increased moisture will keep the
food
moist and help it reheat faster.