Kitchen Wisdom

 

Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the bottom of an ice cream cone to prevent ice cream drips

  Just suck the ice cream out of the bottom of the cone, for Pete's sake! You are probably lying on the couch with your feet up eating it anyway!

To keep potatoes from budding, place an apple in the bag with the potatoes.

Buy Hungry Jack mashed potato mix. Keeps in the pantry for up to a year.

When a cake recipe calls for flouring the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead and there won't be any white mess on the outside of the cake.

Go to the bakery! Hell, they'll even decorate it for you!

If you accidentally over-salt a dish while it's still cooking, drop in a peeled potato and it will absorb the excess salt for an instant 'fix-me-up.'

If you over-salt a dish while you are cooking, that's too bad. Please recite with me the real woman's motto: 'I made it, you will eat it and I don't care how bad it tastes!'

Wrap celery in aluminum foil when putting in the refrigerator and it will keep for weeks.

Celery? Never heard of it!

 

Cure for headaches: take a lime, cut it in half and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away.

Take a lime, mix it with tequila, chill and drink! All your pains go away!

Don't throw out all that leftover wine. Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces.

Leftover wine??????????? HELLO!!!!!!!

Lastly, if you don't forward this to 1 of your friends within the next 5 minutes your belly button will unscrew and your butt will fall off.

It’s HERE!

… Picked up the latest addition to my stables today.  It didn’t want to start right away, it took a little bit of carb cleaner.  It also didn’t want to stay running at first either.  And boy did it smoke up the neighborhood.  But it was good smoke, not the blue oily smelling smoke that says you need a new engine.  The black and white smoke that says this car hasn’t run in a long time kind of smoke.  But since it was exactly like the way my convertible ran when it sat for two years, I just kept babying it until it would idle without dying. 

… By the time we had filled it up with good gas and I got it home, it was purring like a kitten, put your hand on the front fender and you could barely feel the vibrations.  And the transmission shifts smooth as ice right after the Zamboni rode over it.  Well worth the $200 for the engine and transmission alone.  If you look at the picture (HERE),  you’ll that the front seat is in useable condition, it’s got a few rips in it, but the cushioning is still intact.  But the back seat is in perfect condition, looks like new.  It needs a new vinyl top and the paint is nicely oxidized.  There are a couple of bad rust spots right behind the back tires, repairable though, and some surface rust, but overall it’s solid.  the best part, though, is the all-but-mint-condition owners manual.

Dad & Julia

Number 55 soon to be.

… Right around the corner from my brother’s house (The Gearheads) an LTD has sat for a couple of years.  Just recently the homeowner mentioned that he was going to have it towed to a junkyard, it’s just taking up room and they don’t use it anymore.  My brother and his wife didn’t want to see it turned into scrap, so they decided to rescue it and made the guy an offer.  Then they mentioned it to me.

… Well, they had already returned the truck to me, because they didn’t have the room for it, so when I showed some interest in it they decided that as long as it wasn’t going to the scrap heap, they were happy.  So they said I could add it to my stable.

… Which is perfect, because it’s a 2-door hardtop and fits perfectly into my plan. It’s not in as good shape as the other ones I picked up, it has a little rust at the back on the trunk, a dent in the front passenger fender and it needs a new battery and exhaust system.  It also needs a good cleaning, as you can see by the pictures.  There may be some other issues, we won’t know until we get it started when we pick it up on Saturday, but for the price I just couldn’t turn it down. $200.  I can even afford that.

… So, here’s to #55 and the cementing of my obsession.

 … Henry Ford Clinic, here I come.  Again.

I got to laugh today.

… Kid says, not really to me but more towards me, on his way out of class today:

… “I know I’m Special, but why do they call me Ed?”