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Kitchen Tip Tuesday: Grease Your Pan

Posted by Gwendelynn Brown on Tuesday, March 13, 2012, In : Cooking Tips

My Grandma taught me how to grease a pan. You can learn a lot of amazing kitchen tips from the generation that lived through the great depression. I think of her whenever I unwrap a stick of butter. She would scrape all that extra butter off, OR...

fold it (butter side in) and stash it in the freezer. I have started stashing mine in a zipper bag. The next time you need to grease a pan...

grab a butter paper and unfold it. Voila! An instant perfectly sized pan-greaser! The frozen b...

Freezing Tips

Posted by Gwendelynn Brown on Tuesday, December 28, 2010, In : Cooking Tips

Here are a few more freezing tips for all of those holiday leftovers!

Problem 1: I don't like to reheat things in plastic...and the large glass jars split when I freeze in them.

I have in the last couple of years nearly phased out plastic storage containers in favor of quart and pint jars. I love them for leftovers, but I've had a number of problems with them cracking in the freezer. I finally figured out why. The larger quart jars, even those with wide mouths narrow in at the top, creatin...

Spice Grinder Kitchen Trick

Posted by Gwendelynn Brown on Tuesday, April 13, 2010, In : Cooking Tips

I love this spice grinder kitchen trick. Stop me if you've heard this one.
First, you'll need an Osterizer Blendor or Blender. Potay-toe-Potah-toe.

Next, you'll need a homemade spice blend in a standard glass canning jar. Why, you ask, would you need to or want to blend up a spice mix? Well, I'm glad you asked. There is a very good reason. Ground spice mixes give you maximum flavor instantly, and stay homogenous (mixed in perfect proportions).

Way back when I was looking for the perfect Ho...
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The Teatowel Tip

Posted by Gwendelynn Brown on Friday, April 9, 2010, In : Cooking Tips

One of the reasons that I put of any kind of breadmaking for years and years and years was a strong aversion to scraping dough and flour off of the countertop with my fingernails. Then, about 5 years ago, I discovered that a trick from a pumpkin roll recipe worked just as well for kneading and rolling out bread, cookies, etc. This is how it works: