| RE: Asking Someone to Sadie Hawkins |
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What if I don't want you to ask my boyfriend to Sadie Hawkins? ... View related article. |
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| RE: Cast Iron Chili |
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I've heard that tomatoes and cast iron pans don't mix because of the acid in tomatoes. It supposedly dissolves the protective oil coating that protects the pan's metal. Maybe if your pan's coating is thick enough a single tomato recipe wouldn't bother it? Anybody else have ideas? ... View related article. |
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| RE: Covering Windows With Plastic to Reduce Heating Bills |
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Buy carpet 'tack strips' to seal the plastic to the outer window frames if they are wood. They are easy to remove in the spring and can be used repeatedly. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Removing Labels from Jars |
Try soaking the jar labels in mineral spirits. That works to soften most paper adhesives.
If you get seriously mad use acetone -- but be very careful with it. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Product Review: Bissel Little Green Carpet Cleaner |
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Dear Adorable 'Shirthead' - I love that name/title. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Organizing Debit Card Receipts |
I hate all those tiny paper slips, so I input each day's transactions into my computer's word-processing program -- and trash the slips. It's absolutely no hardship doing so since I'm on my computer twice a day anyway. I save that record, and almost all my others, to a removable flash drive.
This becomes a wonderfully handy history of all my debit card use since I began. (Like where and when I might have taken the wife for an anniversary or birthday dinner? -- Lest she forgets).
When my monthly bank statement arrives it's very simple to cross-check -- just in case you forgot or misplaced one. I think that's happened to me twice in the past four years. (It helps to be anal!) ... View related article. |
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| RE: Buying Wooden Privacy Fence Panels |
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Did you ever consider that some things are so very basic that they absolutely cannot be more simple? Like fences that can never magically appear for free? If you don't have the tools or experience to do it yourself, you'll have to pay someone that does! Maybe inlaws? ... View related article. |
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| RE: Cooking Brown Rice at High Altitude |
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It's possible the boiling temps at the altitude where you live never get high enough to cook the rice. Which means you need a pressure cooker, which will compensate for the altitude. Higher up you go the lower the temp at which water boils. I think rice doesn't care where it cooks. Just needs enough BTUs, which it's not getting. Small pressure cookers are fairly cheap. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Recipes Using Chicken Drumsticks |
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I like to cook six or seven in cream of mushroom soup with lots of onions. About an hour in, add potato and carrot chunks and cook a half-hour longer. The meat makes splendid sandwiches too. ... View related article. |
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| RE: Organizing Recipes In Cookbooks |
I do basically the same, except I keep mine in a three ring loose leaf binder. I use the first two letters of the main ingredient; such as 'Be' for beef, to determine where they get filed alphabetically. Maybe three letters might be better, but it's way easy to find the one you want that way.
A computer printout of a Table of Contents can remind you of ones you've loved and maybe forgotten. I also add notes and hints and changes on individual recipe pages to remind me of mistakes, etc., in previous attempts cooking from that recipe -- which helps make the recipe better. ... View related article. |
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