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Hi Everybody,
The winner of our last contest is Becki from Indiana. Thanks Becki and everyone else for your entries.
A new contest started at midnight last night. This contest ends May 20th:
The prize is: Home Coffee Roasting Kit - Peruvian Certified Organic
This kit includes everything you need to get started roasting coffee at home on your stove, in your oven, or in a hot air popcorn popper. Includes the book Coffee Roasting at Home by Susan Sanders and Fletcher Sandbeck, 1 lb of green, unroasted coffee beans, and coffee bags to store your roast.
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Susan
Today's Tips
Don't waste money on expensive rinse agents for the dishwasher. Just fill the reservoir with plain old vinegar for spot-free dishes! By Bianca Escarcega
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"Old-Fashioned" Homemade Bread in a Bread Machine
This tip includes a recipe. The tip is for using a bread machine, but still having that "Old-Fashioned" Homemade loaf of bread.
I don't like the thick hard crust the bread machine makes, so I use my favorite recipe for bread and just use the dough cycle. I mix it, let it go through the "knead" cycle, then remove it, place in a greased bowl, turn, cover and let rise until double. Punch it down, shape it into a loaf and place in greased bread pan. Let rise again until it is just a little above the edge of the pan. Preheat oven to 375º and bake for 30 minutes. Remove from the pan and immediately wrap it in a heavy towel until cool. Slice and enjoy.
And now for that recipe:
Add in this order to your bread machine: 1 cup warm water, 1 teaspoon salt, 2 Tablespoons sugar, 1 Tablespoon oil, 1/2 teaspoon vanilla, 1 Tablespoon yeast, 3½ cups flour. When the "knead" cycle ends, turn the machine off and place the dough in a greased bowl and follow the directions above.
By Harlean from Arkansas
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When making homemade chicken soup I start out by covering the chicken with cold water and bringing it to a boil. Then I put it on simmer for about 1 hour. I line a colander with a clean white cloth (which I have wet with water and rung out to help the cloth "stick" to the colander). I then pour the broth into the cloth that is lining the colander. This catches any fat and makes a more calorie conscious soup base. I then remove the chicken, let it cool, cut the chicken into small pieces and return to the soup pot. Then add the low-fat soup broth. Then add whatever veggies and seasonings you like. By joesgirl
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We added this tip to one of our past Brainstorms: "Using Newspaper Plastic Bags".
You know those bags that your newspaper comes in? Here are some tips for other uses.
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For years I have sought out the markdown bins at grocery and retails stores. Many times I can get an item at half off or more just because the box or can is crushed or one item is missing from a package. I have recently been told that Sam's Club has also started having a markdown bin. I bet there are GREAT savings there!
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Something I have started to do is keep my bobbin and matching thread spools together for easier access.
I used to use (a leftover box from my last baby) the disposable baby bottle bags and enclose the spool and bobbin together inside and fold down and tape shut. Then I found those handy (tiny) ziplock bags in the craft section of Walmart and started to use those.
I also came up with the idea of a pegboard of some sort to hang on my sewing room wall next to my machine with dowel rods cut long enough to hold the spool and bobbin on the same dowel. I just haven't put the idea into action yet.
Tawnda
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New Requests:
We recently moved the ugly "wishing well" that sat over the normal ugly well pipe that sticks out of the ground. We are looking for new and different ideas to cover this up.
There are at least ten wishing wells on our street, two pyramid type lattice covers, raised rock beds, etc. Ours is right near the end of our driveway about ten feet off of the road. It is very much in the open. We are considering using whatever we use to cover this with as an address sign as well. Any crative ideas?
Also, I had seen in a woodworking magazine where they built a three or four foot lighthouse and sat it over the well pipe. It was very cute, but not my style.
Tawnda
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I wonder if anyone has a homemade recipe for hairspray. My young daughter seems to be going through so much, trying to keep her hair in place, that I thought maybe someone has come up with a substitute. Thanks! Kelli in Ohio
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We have a problem with birds in the garden. I was wondering how to keep birds from eating everything when it ripens in the garden? We have it fenced so our chickens won't get in but last year we had a lot of birds get to our tomatoes and other things before we did. It is a large garden so it would not be practical to put netting over everything. Do those twirling owls work? Kathy Please Be An Organ Donor
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