1. Use a brush to clean a colander / strainer / sieve, not a sponge. Because the bristles go in the little holes and poke out all the crud! When I think of the dozens of minutes of my life wasted for lack of this knowledge, my heart aches (just a little).
2. Feeling stressed out doesn’t mean that my life is shit, or I’m a mess, or I’m specially doomed or something. It just means I have action chemicals building up in me and I need to work them out. So lately, instead of doing my normal stress things — eating, watching TV, drinking wine – I’ve been attempting to get up and break a sweat. I am kind of astounded at how well it works.
Could I / should I have learned these things before age forty? Possibly, but at least I know them now.
What about you — picked up any useful tidbits recently? Oh, how I love a good useful tidbit!
Oxyclean powder works better on baked-on lasagna crud in your pyrex pans than it does on laundry.
One scoop of Oxyclean in the bottom of any baked-on-crusted glass/pyrex/plastic pan (not aluminum, it will discolor aluminum… ask me how I know that) and fill it with hot water to soak overnight.
Next morning, you can literally wipe the dish clean with a paper towel. For realz.
Happy New Year!
hey that’s a good one!