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are YOU doing to save time?
Here is your chance to take that course on time management--you
know-- the one you never have time to fit into your schedule.
Learn how to:
• Stretch your day
• Zip through housework
• Find pleasure in being organized
• Use tech tips
• Liberate the living room
• Plan a party lickety-split
Praise
for IT'S ABOUT TIME:
If you don't have time to read this book, then this is the book
you should definitely read. --Joey Green, author of Clean
It! Fix It! Eat It!
Schar's
fresh and personally-tested shortcuts and ideas are pithy, powerful,
terrific and of course—timely! --Allan Rathey, president
of HousekeepingChannel.com
(For
more information about Schar Ward and her seminars,
go to: www.cleaningwithclara.com.)
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ISBN
13:978-1931863-285
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Some
Food Fundamentals
(excerpt)
Cooks' Quick Tricks
There are many little shortcuts that you can incorporate into
your favorite recipes and meal preparation. Here are some you
might not be aware of:
Hole in One
When making up your own hamburgers patties, shape them like a
doughnut with a small hole in the middle. They will cook faster
that way.
Hot Tip
Chunks of meat on a metal skewer cook more quickly when in the
oven, in a broiler or on an outdoor grill.
Cook Once; Eat Twice
It doesn’t take that much more time to prepare a double
of any recipe. Cook it in one dish or two, and put one away for
future use.
Half Time Procedure
Cooking chicken or meat on a grill? Precook food about 1/2 way
done in your microwave, and then complete it on the grill.Or the
reverse. Foods started (and seasoned) on a grill can be finished
up in the microwave oven to shorten cooking time.
Basting A Turkey
Drape a few strips of bacon over your roasting turkey to baste
it automatically.
Whipping It Up
Let egg whites stand at room temperature before beating. They
will fluff up faster.
Weekend Warrior
Use your weekends to cook up meals for the week ahead, especially
ones that freeze easily. School lunch peanut butter sandwiches
are perfect for this. Take a whole loaf of bread and make all
the slices into sandwiches. Pack each sandwich in it’s own
small sandwich bag and then put them ALL back in the bag the loaf
came in. Store it in the freezer and take out as needed. .
Cabbage Shortcut
When making cabbage rolls, instead of softening the cabbage leaves
in boiling water, just freeze the entire head of cabbage first.
When thawed the leaves will be soft and ready to use.
Chop Chop
Next time you have your food processor out, chop up a few extra
onions and store these in a plastic bag in your freezer. Just
take out what you need when a recipe requires you to first sauté
chopped onions.
Slicer Dicer
Cut up small cooked potatoes for potato salad quickly using a
hard-cooked egg slicer. It also works on mushrooms.
It’s in the BAG
Reduce washing dishes by mixing various fixings in a closed one-gallon
plastic bag instead of a bowl. Or just put each hand into a plastic
sandwich bag to mix anything that is messy which would make hand
clean-up a chore.
• Hamburger/meat loaf
• Cookie dough
• Bread dough
• A marinade
• Dry ingredients
• Salad fixins’. For a crowd, use a larger plastic
garbage bag. With both, toss in dressing just before putting in
a serving bowl.
Cut Ups
Use your pizza cutter to remove crusts from bread, cut up sandwiches,
dice small greens and herbs; cut spaghetti into child-size bites;
and, yes, even serve up pizzas.
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Nothing
is all wrong.
Even a clock that has stopped running
is right twice a day.
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