Kitchen Tips

[cat lover]

To thicken bottled BBQ sauce and sweeten it just add some apples you whirled in your food processor and add them to the BBQ sauce, it is great brushed on chicken and ribs!

To thicken too thin gravies; add instant mashed potato flakes, just be sure to stir as you add them to prevent them from lumping.


When you are preparing oatmeal, use fruit juice instead of water, it will give you a variety of flavors.

[cat lover]

How To Make Homemade Muffins Fast!


Mix a batch of muffin batter and spoon it into muffin cups lined with foil baking cups and freeze. Once frozen solid you can take them from the muffin tins foil and all and put them in a platic bag and keep them frozen. When you're ready for a muffin, don't thaw them; just bake at the heat recommended in the original recipe and add just one or two more minutes than originally called for. You can do one or two at a time in a toaster oven .

[Bilby]

Catlover I love that muffin idea.


Another thing to give breakfast oats flavour is to mix in flavoured milk, strawb, chocolate and caramel are my kids likes.

[cat lover]

Works out really well with the muffins! The flavored milk is an idea I'll have to try on DH; maybe I can get him to eat more oatmeal that way; flavored skim chocolate milk in his oatmeal! Thanks for the idea!