Deviled Eggs

Put cooked egg yolks in a Ziplock bag. Seal, mash until they are all broken up. Add remainder of ingredients, reseal, keep mashing up thoroughly, cut the tip of the baggy, squeeze mixture into egg. Just throw bag away when done. Easy clean up.

Reheat Pizza

Heat up leftover pizza in a nonstick skillet on top of the stove. Set heat to medium low and heat until warm. This keeps the crust crispy. No more soggy micro pizza!!

Scrambled Eggs or Omelets

To really make scrambled eggs or omelets rich add a couple of spoonfuls of sour cream, cream cheese, or heavy cream. Then beat them together.

Peppers

Peppers with three bumps on the bottom are sweeter and better for eating.




Peppers with four bumps on the bottom are firmer and better for cooking.

Cheese

Store your opened cheese in aluminum foil. It will stay fresh much longer and won't mold.

Bananas

Peel a banana from the bottom and you won't have to peel off those little stringy things. That's how the primates do it!










Take your bananas apart when you get home from the store. (If you leave them connected at the stem, they ripen and spoil too fast).

Two of my best kitchen secrets...

#1--You know how anything with a tomato based sauce leaves that ever-lasting orange/red stain on your tupperware?

Want to know how to get it out???

Well, simply put the tainted tupperware/plastic in direct sunlight for a day, and VOILA!!! Orange/red tint is gone. Bleached by the sun. Amazingly simple, I know, but it works, I promise. Extra bonus: it's free. You only need a sunny day.

#2--Tearing up everytime you cut those onions?

Want to know how to keep it from getting to you???

Put a piece of bread in your mouth as you cut and somehow it absorbs the fumes. I just take a bite and leave the rest hanging out. Amazing again, right? Try it out and let me know how it worked.

{I got these wonderfully useful tips from my SIL. She's great in the kitchen :0) }

Please share a secret or two, if you want, in the comment section.

August: Kitchen Tips/Secrets

I know it's almost over, but for this month, post about your favorite KITCHEN TIPS or SECRETS. :0)