Sunday, February 12, 2012

Living Unbound: DIY Experiment: Homemade Chunky Chocolate Chips!

This is amazing, I am giving it a try

Living Unbound: DIY Experiment: Homemade Chunky Chocolate Chips!: Sometimes I get in moods where I just feel like doing something totally new just for the fun of it. Only when my toddler is napping of cour...

Saturday, February 11, 2012

BOX OVEN FROM CARDBOARD

1 empty cardboard box with flaps
heavy duty aluminum foil
4 empty soda cans (I like using the smaller ones, like the ones that pineapple juice or V-8 juice come in.)
charcoal

1.) Cover box TOTALLY in aluminum foil, inside and out, flaps and all, better to much
than too less.

2.) Fill the cans half way with water. Lay box flat on its side so the opening is facing you.
Put soda cans in the box on the four corners so it can hold up what you are cooking.

3.) Place the dish with your food on the soda cans.

4.) Place one charcoal in the box under the dish for every 40 degrees you want your oven
to be.  Prepare: Get the charcoal ready to cook by starting them and waiting until they are white.
Have you ever been camping and needed or wanted an oven, here is that will do the trick and it works very well.  You will need:
 

                        How to clean rust off cast iron skillets. 

My mom used a white vinegar solution 2 parts vinegar 1 part water to clean
the rust off cast iron pans.

She would soak the pan overnight in the vinegar solution and the vinegar just dissolves the rust.

Very rusty pans may take an extra evening. Don't leave it in there too long or you will not have a pan. The vinegar actually dissolves the metal.

This would work on new cast iron pans also.

I  collect antique cast iron pans and after cleaning the old grease off them many times they are rusty
under the old seasoning.

I did not know it was this simple until my mother taught me, you know the moms out there are good for teaching us stuff after all. Who would have thought?
Home made Anti-Bacterial Spray (Cleaner Concentrate)

                        
  1               pint  rubbing alcohol
  2               Tbsp  ammonia
  2                tsp  Dawn dish soap          
  1               drop  food coloring -- (opt. I like green)

Concentrate:  Recycle a heavy-plastic gallon apple juice jug (NOT a
milk jug). Pour in cleaning ingredients, filling with water. I add the Dawn dish soap after the water, less suds. Add food coloring, if wanted. Shake gently but enough to mix.  Cleaner can be used full strength but it works just as well diluted and you save money.

To Dilute:  Fill a squirt bottle, half and half, with tap water and concentrate. This cleaner is totally safe on food surfaces; spray and leave on the surface for 10 minutes, before wiping. You needn't rinse when used diluted, but you'd want to rinse, if not diluted
 Yield:     "1 gallon"