Monday, July 22, 2013

Baby wipe your shoes!

Save your shoes by keeping baby wipes around.  Inexpensive and easy to find, baby wipes are perfect for a quick refresher for your insoles.  Helps keep your stilettos pretty for a while longer especially for light or nude colored insoles.  Helps to clean off the sole and bottom of the heel too.


Great for so many things!

How to speed up defrosting meat

Ever have that moment of forgetting to take out and to defrost the ground turkey or beef? 
No need for a microwave with this tip to speed up defrosting ground meat.

  1. On the stove top, heat up some olive oil with some water with the meat.  
  2. As the meat turns brown, scrape off the brown sides with a spatula and flip.  
  3. Repeat this until the meat is broken up.  
  4. Drain the water and continue cooking the meat for pasta sauce or whatever you are cooking.

All it takes is just a bit of water in a pan

How to save dried out cookies

If you have ever overly baked some cookies?  Or found that your cookies dried out and are hard pucks?  Before you throw them away, try this easy tip.

Store them in an airtight container with a piece of bread.  The cookies will draw out the moisture from the bread.  Remove the bread when the piece is dried out.  So easy!

Pic credit: NY Times