My kitchen tip for today is creating flavor cubes that allow me to very quickly whip up recipes that use cream of mushroom soup. Not only is is WAY less expensive than using canned soups, but it’s a big space saver as well. Twelve “soup starter cubes” take up very little space in the freezer!…
Grease Your Pan
My Grandma taught me how to grease a pan. You can learn a lot of amazing kitchen tips from the generation that lived through the great depression. I think of her whenever I unwrap a stick of butter. She would scrape all that extra butter off, OR… fold it (butter side in) and stash it…
Cleaning Burnt On Food
I found this little kitchen tip ‘jewel’ on Pinterest today: Apartment Therapy’s post on How to Clean Burnt Pans With Vinegar and Baking Soda.I was so excited to try this! Providentially, while I was pinning this tip, my son was upstairs burning the grits. Breakfast was saved by the ‘burnt beans’ kitchen tip. But the…
Freezing Bacon II-Space Saver Option
A while back, I posted a kitchen tip on freezing bacon flat on a cookie sheet. This weekend, my man and I were making breakfast together, and he had a great idea for freezing bacon in a much smaller space. So I took a few snapshots for you. This is for everyone who has a…
Covering Smushy Desserts
I made this lovely banana pudding for an event, and I didn’t want to mess up the whipped cream with plastic wrap. What to do? Mom used to use toothpicks, but those just poke holes right through the plastic wrap. But wait! I remembered these little flag picks that I found last year at the…
Marking Leftovers
I love, love, love using glass jars to store leftovers, and the plastic lids are so much easier for leftovers and freezing than the standard ring lids. However, I do not love trying to clean sharpie marker off the lids of the jars. So, I bought a China Marker, which is a waxy pencil that…
Freezing Tips
Here are a few more freezing tips for all of those holiday leftovers!Problem 1: I don’t like to reheat things in plastic…and the large glass jars split when I freeze in them.I have in the last couple of years nearly phased out plastic storage containers in favor of quart and pint jars. I love them…
Freezing Bacon
Bacon is one of those foods that I just can’t imagine living without. Whether your preference is for thick cut, pepper crusted, turkey, beef, or pork; bacon=love. It is so versatile…I use it on everything from pizza to soup to our standard Saturday morning brrunch-a-thon.The kind I usually buy comes in large, 3 lb. packages. …