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How to store fresh produce – From A to Zucchini.

January 25, 2012 107 Comments

The best way to store Fresh Produce via The V Spot Blog

Do you ever buy fresh fruits and vegetables, toss them into the produce drawer and forget about them? Then a few days later you open the drawer only to discover that it’s all spoiled? Here are some of the best methods for storing your fresh produce.

Filed Under: Featured, kitchen stuff, Let me help you, organization, Tip of the Day, Tips & Tricks

Wine marinated Beef Stew, served with a side of Funny. mmm mmm good.

January 19, 2012 11 Comments

Yesterday Giada De Laurentiis was on The Today Show sharing some recipes for comfort foods.  One of them was for a Chianti marinated beef stew. Sounded good.  I didn’t have the exact ingredients that she used, so I winged it.  I used a Cabernet to marinate the meat instead of Chianti.  Grant was watching the wine-marinating process. […]

Filed Under: bacon, beef, concoction of the week, Exchange of the Day, Grant, kitchen stuff, Main Dish, recipes, wine

No more burned tongues! Make hot cocoa ice cubes.

November 15, 2011 30 Comments

I shared this simple tip over at I {Heart} Naptime last week.    It’s an easy way to help keep your little people from getting burned by one of the holiday season’s most common treats: hot cocoa. Have you ever burned your tongue?  Of course you have.  It hurts, and it would be preventable if you […]

Filed Under: camping, cheap and easy, Christmas, Drinks, Holidays, kitchen stuff, Let me help you, recipes, Tip of the Day, Tips & Tricks

Dutch Ovens. Not just for camping anymore.

November 14, 2011 6 Comments

Do you have a Dutch Oven?  Ever cook with one? Me neither. But Handsome Hubby has one, and he has cooked several delicious dishes in it.  We usually take it camping with us and he made us an amazing apple pie in it one year.  It was so good! The Food Network has great Dutch […]

Filed Under: camping, kitchen stuff, Main Dish, recipes, Side Dish, Thanksgiving

How to char poblano peppers & make basic Rajas. Yum!

July 28, 2011 14 Comments

Have you ever had rajas?  They are strips of poblano peppers, corn and onions in a delish creamy, cheesy sauce.  They are ridiculously good.  I like them as a side dish or put into a quesadilla.  Handsome Hubby likes them wrapped in a warm corn tortilla. However you eat them… they are crazy good, and […]

Filed Under: Cinco de Mayo, kitchen stuff, recipes, Side Dish

Cleaning Stove Burners & Grates using Ammonia (The best, easiest, cheapest No-Scrub way EVER.)

July 7, 2011 608 Comments

I’m going to change your life today.  (Well, your stove top at least.)  This post contains affiliate links. Don’t you judge me!  I cook.  A lot. These were my stove burner/grates. Yep.  They were so bad that I am almost embarrassed to put a watermark on this photo.   You cook… oil and grease spatter… they […]

Filed Under: cheap and easy, cleaning, kitchen stuff, Let me help you, Tip of the Day, Tips & Tricks

Mother’s Day Wrap-up. No pictures of people, but pictures of Pom-Poms. Duh.

May 10, 2011 20 Comments

I just washed and put away the last champagne flute from our annual Mother’s Day Brunch. This is the 5th one we’ve hosted, and each time it gets a little easier to put together. I change the theme and/or color scheme each year.  I was going to do this turquoise and apple green, with pops […]

Filed Under: bacon, Crafts, decor, Entertaining, kitchen stuff, Mother's Day, party, project du jour, Spring, UseWhatchaGot

Fast, simple, low fat, low calorie Super Salsa. Pass the chips please.

March 23, 2011 22 Comments

I’ve always been a (lazy) jarred salsa kind of girl. Last summer while camping, we had delicious, fresh salsa that was whipped up by my friend’s 14 year old daughter. I asked for the recipe, but couldn’t recreate it. It just wasn’t the same. I tweaked it and tweaked it and found out that simple […]

Filed Under: Appetizers, cheap and easy, concoction of the week, kitchen stuff, recipes, Tip of the Day, tutorial

What’s the best way to store celery?

January 20, 2010 22 Comments

You know how there are some items that are common in some people’s kitchens, but for whatever reason, it just isn’t common in yours? Celery is one of those things at my house. I buy it if I’m making stuffing or Bloody Marys. That’s about it. This celery? I bought it in mid November for […]

Filed Under: kitchen stuff, Let me help you, Tip of the Day, very cool

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