Handy Hints for Wednesday ~ 22
I think you all guessed I was having a little fun last week with it being April Fool’s day. Today I have more serious hints for you.
Separate your good dishes by putting a coffee filter between each dish.
If you have a toe fungus problem use one part vinegar to one part warm water and soak your feet. This repeated over the course of a week will clear up your toenails.
To remove the smell of garlic, onions, or fish from a cutting board wash with lemon juice.
Poached fish will be firmer and whiter if you add lemon juice to the cooking liquid.
Feeling flat in the afternoon? Mix two teaspoons of Angostura bitters in a glass of tonic water and sip. The mixture of the quinine in the tonic and the bark extracts in the bitters will refresh and revive you.
Little Links - Wednesday April 8th 2009 | Joe Scanlon said,
April 8, 2009 at 10:01 am
[...] Lemons are so useful! - Great tips as usual from Grannymar. [...]
steph said,
April 8, 2009 at 10:18 am
“Feeling flat in the afternoon?”
I’d prefer two large gin and tonics, please
Grannymar said,
April 8, 2009 at 11:18 am
Steph,
I have two bottles in front of me… NO! they are not open right now!
One is a 1 Litre bottle of Gin that states the alcohol is 40% vol. While the little unassuming under the counter 200ml bottle of Angostura Bitters is 44.7% alcohol/vol!
Is it any wonder it makes you feel good………
Sch… Scher… seriously folks I never touched a drop! hic!
Nancy said,
April 8, 2009 at 1:16 pm
“The mixture of the quinine in the tonic and the bark extracts in the bitters will refresh and revive you.”
Plus,Grannymar, it may help clear up my Malaria.
Grannymar said,
April 8, 2009 at 4:45 pm
Nancy, Nice one!
Magpie11 said,
April 8, 2009 at 7:44 pm
Oh boy! What a way to spoil Angostura bitters!…Tonic is too bitter for me! Pink Vodka….for me!
BTW that 44% proof is all very well but to experience it you’d have to consume a lot of other things to get the effect and by than you’d be very ill!
Grannymar said,
April 8, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Magpie,
I like Angostura bitters & tonic. In fact, I have been known to drink tonic undiluted when I know I have to drive. An alternative short would be ginger ale it looks like a drink, and I hate long glasses of sweet fizzy stuff.
Annb said,
April 8, 2009 at 8:14 pm
Grannymar, I am again, in awe at how you hop, gazelle like, from coffee filters to gin with a nod to vingegar along the way! Now that’s what I call class!
Grannymar said,
April 8, 2009 at 8:26 pm
Annb,
I wish I felt gazelle like!
Annb said,
April 8, 2009 at 9:03 pm
The important thing is that everyone else thinks you do!
Nancy said,
April 8, 2009 at 9:13 pm
Right on, GM. When I was entertaining people who were looking for a home I usually took them for lunch. Not wanting to drink alcohol at Noon and yet not wanting to discourage them from have a nip if they wanted one, I would order a tonic and lime and they never knew the difference.
I don’t think I ever mentioned it to them but I think they thought I was having a nip right along with them.
Grannymar said,
April 8, 2009 at 9:37 pm
@Annb - I fool the troops all the time.
@Nancy - Elly would tell you I am a class act at playing with a glass!
Magpie11 said,
April 8, 2009 at 9:57 pm
Ginger Ale’s okay….I seem to be very sensitive to bitterness…more ways than one I think…but heat! Well I tried my first bird’s eye chilli the other day bit into it and for once a chilli caused a reaction..but the heat was soon coped with… much to everyone’s amazement.
Must try putting a few chillies in a bottle of vodka some time!
Dorothy Stahlnecker said,
April 9, 2009 at 12:47 am
Loved the tips however I’m not sure bitters and tonic could do it..I need something stiffer as life is really in the dog house lately..
Hugs from me
Dorothy from grammology
grammology.com
Brighid said,
April 9, 2009 at 4:57 am
Ah I love your tips.
But do you not realize how talented you are to be able to be putting coffee filters between the plates, while soaking your feet in vinegar, pouring lemon juice on the dinner, and knocking back a bit of tonicy stuff.
Grannymar said,
April 9, 2009 at 4:04 pm
@Magpie - All this talk of drink has gone to your head! I hope there were no after affects from the chillies!
@Dorothy - Sorry to hear that things are not too godd at the moment. Hugs.
@Brighid - And all with two hands