Joey Green's Kitchen Magic: 1,882 Quick Cooking Tricks, Cleaning Hints, and Kitchen Remedies Using Your Favorite Brand-Name Products
Joey Green
Language: English
Pages: 356
ISBN: 2:00364752
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
From the guru of brand-new uses for brand-name products come ideas and tips for culinary fun, cleaning shortcuts, and kitchen cabinet remedies.
Joey Green has fascinated readers for more than a decade with his quirky and innovative tips to make domestic engineering a lot more fun. Now fans will be completely intrigued and entertained by Joey's kitchen- and pantry-focused ideas, like using Canada Dry Club Soda to buff stainless steel appliances and flexible fabric Band-Aids as labels for frozen foods.
Filled with time- and money-saving ideas, Joey Green's Kitchen Magic offers clever ways to make household items do double duty, like using ReaLemon for revitalizing wilted asparagus, L'eggs Panty Hose (clean, of course) for removing corn silk, and Oral-B Dental Floss for slicing layer cake. He shares unusual ideas for kitchen troubles, like stirring in Jif Peanut Butter to save burnt gravy and using Efferdent to clean the coffeepot. Joey even tosses in home remedies from the kitchen (soothe a blister with Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk) and simple recipes (try Slow-Cooker Brisket with a Coca-Cola marinade).
Whether it's a quick fix (Eggo Waffles for hot dog buns, anyone?) or an emergency substitution (Bounty Paper Towel for a coffee filter), there are loads of useful and entertaining tips for making the most of brand-name purchases.
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Message or designs on the cake. Use a French’s Mustard bottle (see page 114) or Ziploc Storage Bag (see page 115) to pipe the icing. Forster Toothpicks. If the top layer of a double-layer cake continually slides off the bottom layer as you attempt to ice it, secure the top layer in place by inserting three or four Forster Toothpicks through the layers, spaced far apart from each other. Be sure to remove the toothpicks before serving the cake. French’s Mustard. To decorate a cake with frosting,.
Hot water, let sit for ten minutes, and rinse clean. ReaLemon. To prevent cooked fish from filling your kitchen with a fishy smell, before cooking, use a pastry brush to paint the fish with ReaLemon lemon juice, or before frying the fish or heating up the butter or vegetable oil, add one teaspoon ReaLemon lemon juice to the frying pan. Fish Sticks Reynolds Wrap. To bake fish sticks, crumple up a sheet of Reynolds Wrap, smooth it out, put it in a pan, and then place the fish sticks on top of the.
Contents of a can of Campbell’s Beef Bouillon (or Campbell’s Chicken Broth) into a saucepan; add chopped carrots, celery, and onions (browned first in Land O Lakes Butter); season with herbs and a little wine; and simmer for thirty minutes. Hershey’s Caramel Topping. To give stock a rich, brown color, add one teaspoon Hershey’s Caramel Topping. Hunt’s Tomato Paste. For another way to give stock a rich, brown color, stir in one teaspoon Hunt’s Tomato Paste, boil well, and strain. L’eggs Sheer.
Karo Light Corn Syrup and Smucker’s Strawberry Jam. To make a delicious topping for pancakes or waffles, add several tablespoons Smucker’s Strawberry Jam to one cup Karo Light Corn Syrup. Warm over a low heat, stirring frequently. Pam Cooking Spray. To prevent syrup from sticking to the bowl of a spoon or inside a measuring cup, spray the utensils with a thin coat of Pam Cooking Spray. Welch’s Grape Jelly and Land O Lakes Butter. To improvise pancake or waffle syrup, mix one-half cup Welch’s.
Breaks to prevent scalding and skim off any film from the surface.) Remove from the microwave and let cool to about 115 degrees Fahrenheit. Add three tablespoons Dannon Plain Yogurt, mix well, pour into a clean, empty glass jar, and seal the lid tightly. Place the warm jar inside an insulated picnic cooler, close the lid, and let sit undisturbed for eight hours. Refrigerate when ready. If desired, add vanilla extract, strawberries, peaches, or raspberries to taste. Three tablespoons yogurt from.