Fun Tips to Try!

It’s been a while since I’ve shared some fun tips for the kitchen, so today’s post features cool tricks for your cooking and baking! 

1.     Freeze butter and grate it using a cheese grater! You can use the shavings for recipes needing cold butter, or you can put it on foods you want to put melted butter on because the shavings melt much faster than chucks of better (toast, bagels, baked potatoes, etc.).

2.     Reheat pasta in a doughnut shape; it will warm up much more evenly because the heat can more easily access all the pasta.

3.     Place a paper towel over a bowl of lettuce or salad, cover with plastic wrap, and it will help keep the lettuce fresh for about a week.

4.     You can use unscented floss to cut through soft food fairly easily, such as cake (helps make flat, even layers of cake).

5.     If you want to juice lemons, limes, or oranges, if you roll them with the palm of your hand, pressing down medium-hard, you’ll get more juice out of them.

6.     It you coat measuring cups and spoons with non-stick spray, sticky substances (peanut butter, honey, molasses, etc.) won’t stick to the tools.

7.     You can freeze your fresh herbs in olive oil to use for pasta sauce or cooking meats and vegetables.

8.     If you cook fish on top of lemons on the grill, the fish won’t stick to the grill AND you’ll have a hint of lemon in your dish.

9.     Freeze fruit and citrus slices in water and use them in seltzer, alcoholic, or fruit drinks.

10.  To cook bacon quickly, throw it in the waffle iron to crisp it up.

Keep on cooking and baking with these fun tricks!