Use Painters’ Tape to Label Stored and Freezer Foods

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My sweet friend Mary submitted this week’s Kitchen Tip:

I use blue painters’ tape to mark the lids of freezer and stored items. I write on it with a pen or sharpie. This tape stays on in the freezer and easily peels right off. Read more…

Bake Bread (and More) in Your Toaster Oven

Here’s another tip from my friend Christina (who shared her fool-proof method for warming milk a few weeks ago). We love having fresh baked dinner bread every night at dinner. If I don’t want to heat the house with the big oven I just bake it in my toaster oven. I make a small loaf [...]

Fool-Proof Method for Warming Milk

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My dear and local friend Christina submitted this tip for the Weekly Kitchen Tip series:

I thought of a kitchen tip that I use quite a lot that perhaps others have not thought of. I heat milk for pudding or yogurt or ….

Transferring Bar Cookies to Freezer Bags for the Freezer

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Here’s the second Weekly Kitchen Tip at gnowfglins.com. I am looking forward to receiving and sharing your tips in the future. (Hint, hint: send them to tips at gnowfglins dot com.) Transferring bar cookies to freezer bags one at a time not only takes time, but it isn’t that easy to get the cookies arranged [...]

Pressing Bar Cookies Smoothly Into A Pan

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Here’s the first Weekly Kitchen Tip at gnowfglins.com. I am looking forward to receiving and sharing your tips in the future. I will use one of my own to kick-start this series. I’m a weakling. When the kids got big enough that I no longer carried any of them around on my hip, my arms [...]