Misc newlywed tips

Well i am not a silent one that's for sure ... Oh and I happen to htink you could put our states next to the recipes/tips in the booklet ... mins Michigan.

Get & use a large pizza cutter. They are for more than Pizza! french toast pancakes, cakes, pies, children's dinners try it you'll like it!

Use egg slicer to slice mushrooms, soft kiwi, and strawberries! For pretty strawberry fans, slice with stem side down and slice almost through then "fan" with fingertips.

Put a little oil in pasta water to keep from boiling over, also I like to add Italian spices to the water to help flavor ...

Freeze excess fresh herbs.

To serve 2 leiter soda in style ... place bottle in the center of a napkin or piece of fabric or lace, draw up the corners and tie a wired ribbon about 2/3 ways up the bottle, let the corners drop back, write type of soda in fancy or block letters (dempending on occasion) near the top. Cover the commercial on the bottle and fun think of a picnic with red checked napkins ...

Remember "friends" are more important than "things" esp in the kitchen when somthing spills or breaks ...

Put an extra portion in the freezer and bless someone (an elderly single?) with a home cooked dinner plate as able.

Freeze things in small amounts like gravey or broth base by useing ice cube trays "pop" into baggies and MARK well.

The look of the table can make a difference, even if only to you.

Don't be afraid to try ....

Keep a pair of siccors hidden back in the drawer, tell no one, maybe a roll of tape too. Change locations as needed! hehe!

Treat your family like company once in a while, a bowl for chips, nice stemware ... let them know they are everybit if not more important than company.

When making a pie or some other treat for a church function or whatever, be sure to double and leave one for the family to enjoy, even cut in 1/2 a nd leave 1/2 if you have to ... don't let them always see treats leave ...

Get good knives.

Buy plaxtic wrap and aluminum foil in bulk at a resturant supply, decroate box to match kitchen, even wallpaper it, it will be around for yrs!

It takes the same time to make up somthing with cheap ingredients or fabric or whatver as it does the good stuf but results are not always the same, weigh this out.

Yes, you can subsitute evap milk with 2%

Hang artwork in a nice location, not just the fridge.

Keep cleaning products high in the begining and then you will not need re-training if little ones come on the scene.

Hide a nice set of company towels from yourself till you have a drop in guest!
and make sure the set has a washcloth.

Don't buy glasses with indentation on the underside, they will collect water in the diswasher.

Write in your cookbooks -- it's okay! :)

I try to place scripture cards around my work area so that i can "think on these things"

Don't talk about money matters when you are tired or after nine at night whichever comes first.

one of the best things you can give to a friend (esp the tired on who drops in for a 'shoulder') is a little bit of a messy house and a cup o' tea, she didn't come in to inspect your home ...

Ask at fabric stores for the tubes rolled fabric comes on and use to store table linnens just "roll em up" another iron saver is to place sheets of tissue as you fold if you choose to fold them.

Stay out of debt.

PLAN time to write notes, it is a lost art. Have everything on hand as well.

Expectations are the begining of resentments.

Marriage is 100% 100% not 50/50, that way if one is tired and not able to give as he should, marriage is not lacking ...

This one for tkl fans smoke alarms are not kitchen timers! HA!

Open bars of soap before storing, that way they will not disinigrate in box.

Buy an 'extra' for somone in need when you find a sale.

Bigger is not always cheaper, compare!

Let the machine/gadget work for you, don't work for it!

Find a place to keep bags.

Use a plastic ziploc, cut a hole in corner, to fill deviled eggs.

Small waste cans get emptied faster.

Run some hot water for a few min. after you turn off the garbage disposal. run cold water before you turn it on.

RETURN it if it is not to your satisfaction, even if that is the only reason, no need to keep usless produts.

Make a cupon box out of a small rectanglularplastic fishing box, handle and good closure is nice to have.

Let hubby feel free to invite guests over for dinner, don't give him a hasstle, encourage it.

If stove is older lift top once in a while to clean (you'd be suprised how many do not know this...) oven doors usually come off too.

Fun to share and remember nothing is new under the sun, i learned these somewhere too ....
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