~ Save your favorite recipes form a magazine by finding them on the magazine site and pining them to your Pinterest board.
~ How to peel a whole head of garlic at once!!
~ Easy way to prep Pearl Onions. Blanch in boiling water for 1 minute. Then place in cold water and peel.
~ How to tell if your eggs have gone bad.
~ To incorporate brown rice into your diet, use 3/4 brown rice and 1/4 white rice.
~ Shop the bulk food isle. The savings can be huge!
~ When buying meat in bulk, make up a marinade in the bag before splitting up into meal sized portions. Makes for a no-fuss meal as it marinates while thawing.
~ Save your left over chicken carcass and boil the bones down for stock. Just add some salt, pepper, thyme, onion, garlic and celery and boil. Strain out the veggies, bones and meat. Freeze up to 6 mo. in individual containers.
~ Grow and dry your own herbs.
~ Toss moldy or stale bread out in the yard for the birds to enjoy.
~ Use bread flour instead of all-purpose when making bread and pizza dough. I like Better For Bread flour by Gold Medal.
~ Pull recipes out of magazines and store in a binder to create your own custom cookbook
~ Check out cookbooks from the Library. That way you can try before you buy!
~ Asparagus has a natural breaking point that will get rid of the woody part. Just bend the spear at the end and "snap" the woody part will come off and you are left with the best part!
