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Kitchen Hacks You Wish You Should Have Known Before

When it comes to cooking, it is essential to know some cooking hacks at home that you can use to either speed up your cooking prep, keep your greens fresher for an extended period, and make the food tastier. While having your unique style in keeping things in your kitchen, it wouldn’t hurt to have a couple of useful hacks on hand, especially this coming holiday season. And besides, pulling up a recipe that eats a lot of time and needs considerable effort to complete can sometimes discouraging, so learning some kitchen hacks can be super useful.

Below we have listed some straightforward kitchen hacks that you are going to wish that you should have known earlier.

Hack #1 Use a paper towel to keep your greens fresh

There’s nothing more frustrating than seeing your greens wilting even after keeping it on your fridge. To make your greens last for an extended period, wrap them with a paper towel and place them in a plastic container. The paper towel is handy for absorbing excess moisture coming from your greens while the container prevents your greens from getting crushed.

Also read: Practical Cooking Tip: Vegetable Blanching

Hack #2 Use marshmallow to keep your brown sugar soft

For those who love to bake, keeping brown sugar soft at all times is quite challenging, especially if you don’t have the proper storage for it. To ensure that the sugar doesn’t harden, store it in an airtight container and put at least two pieces of marshmallow on top of it. You could also use a slice of bread as an excellent alternative to marshmallow. It will keep your sugar soft and ensure it doesn’t harden over time.

Hack #3 Use the oven for cooking hard boil eggs

If you haven’t mastered the boiling water method, then using the oven to cook hard boil eggs is an excellent alternative, especially if you have to boil a lot of eggs at the same time hard. To do this trick, heat the eggs in the oven for at least 30 minutes at 350 degrees. Then gently submerge the eggs in ice water for another 10 minutes.

Good read: 5 Reasons Why Instant Pot Is The Best Slow Cooker

Hack #4 Use a dry towel to dry your fish before cooking

To cook the fish perfectly can be tricky, especially if you want the browning to stand out. One way to get it right is by patting your fish dry using a paper towel before putting the fish on the hot pan. The paper towel removes the excess moisture from the fish that prevents it from browning. By getting rid of the wetness of your fish, it makes the browning to stand out much easier.

Hack #5 Use a plastic or metal container to peel garlic cloves quickly and easily

We all know that peeling garlic can be incredibly time-consuming, especially if you have to peel lots of it. To easily peel garlic gloves quickly, break the bulb of garlic into individual cloves, then place them into a plastic or metal container and vigorously shake the garlic. If cloves are still difficult to release, shake longer and more vigorously.

Knowing these simple yet straightforward kitchen hacks can be very useful. Try it and you’ll surely appreciate them.

Cleaning Tips For Your Dirty Kitchen

Lots of moms would agree that the kitchen is one of the busiest parts of the house. And while cooking and preparing food alone is already a daunting task, cleaning the kitchen would be a lot more challenging. Not to mention also your kitchen fixtures, furniture, and kitchen walls that need cleaning as well. To help you with some useful cleaning tips, below, I have listed some fantastic ways to clean your dirty kitchen quickly.

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Clean your kitchen from top to bottom

It is still best to follow the old rule when it comes to cleaning your kitchen by cleaning it from top to bottom and front to back. This approach has already proven to save you time and avoid doubling up your cleaning. For example, cleaning the counter without cleaning the top of the stove would only cause you to clean the counter again since debris will most likely fall. I recommend cleaning your ceiling and corners of walls first with a dust mop. Don’t forget to clean the wall against grease, grime, and spilled food.

Also read: 5 tips for cleaning your house in Melbourne

Use hot water to clean your dishes easily

Having a sink full of dishes can be tiring to look at, but the real challenge is when you try to scrub the food out from them. Scrubbing the food and grease off the dishes is both challenging and time-consuming. To make it easier, fill your sink with hot water together with a squirt of liquid dishwashing soap. Let your dishes soak for at least 15 minutes, so the food and grease would lose its grip. Using this cleaning tip, you can easily wash your dishes with ease.

Use baking soda and vinegar to make your sink shine again

Having a shiny kitchen sink is an excellent motivator for most moms since it makes your kitchen look very clean. To easily remove stains from the sink, apply baking soda on the sink’s surface using a damp sponge. It can effectively remove stains without the need for scratching the sink’s surface. Thoroughly wash the sink with water to remove the baking soda then spray vinegar all over the sink to dissolve calcium deposits. Rinse the sink again with water, and you’ll be surprised to see that your sink will shine again like new.

Use baking soda and vinegar to clean your kitchen tiles

A lot of cleaning experts say that you can clean your entire house as long as you have your baking soda on your side. And that also includes not just your bathroom tiles but your kitchen tiles as well. The grout between the tiles will become discolored and look dirty as time passes by, and it will start to become sore to the eyes. To clean it easily, combine your baking soda with a little bit of water to create a paste and apply it all over the tiles and the grout. Let the paste sit in for at least 10 minutes before spraying the vinegar. Scrub the tiles and grout using a toothbrush to remove all the stains to make it look clean and fresh.

Must read: 5 tips to keeping your home clean

5 Mush Masarap Dishes With Jolly Mushrooms

I just discovered that I can add mushroom to my kids favorite dishes making it more mush masarap. We love eating mushroom as it is, and yes use it on certain dishes like carbonara. Adding it on, say, chicken pastel, is very new to our kids. Nagulat ako na nagustuhan talaga nila.

I am sharing with you some of our favorite dishes na mush pinasarap with Jolly Mushrooms. You have to try these too and share it wit us ha. For more mush masarap na recipes using Jolly Mushroom, follow Jolly Eats on their Facebook page (https://web.facebook.com/JollyFoods/), subscribe din kayo sa Jolly Eats Youtube Channel

5 Dishes Mush Masarap Dishes With Jolly Mushrooms

Mush Chicken Pastel

The first time I tried adding mushroom to our ordinary chicken pastel, nagustuhan talaga ng kids ko. And you what I like most about this recipe, ang bilis lutuin, ang dali gawin, and I can pair it with rice or pasta.

Jolly Mushrooms used: 400 grams whole

Mush Japchae

Japchae is a Korean stir fried starch noodles. Inspired to create one with the use of what’s available in our pantry, I discovered how tasteful it can be with Jolly Mushrooms. Even the chicken I used is a left over! Check out the vide preparation on my FB Page: Mommy Pehpot (link to video on my page)

Jolly Mushrooms used: 400 grams stems and pieces

Mush Burger Steak

We all know we put mushroom on burger steak sauce, pero pwede din pala to include yung mushrooms sa burger mismo. Tuwang tuwa talaga ako that I followed Jolly Eats. Ang dami ko nakukuha na recipes na nagugustuhan ng mga kids ko.

Jolly Mushrooms used: 400 grams stems and pieces and 400 grams whole

Mush Pork Giniling

This recipe is also from Jolly Eats FB Page, but instead of using whole mushrooms, I used yung Jolly pieces and stems variant. We love giniling with lots of veggies. When I tried adding mushroom, medyo nabigla ang mga kids but in the end, mas masarap daw!

Jolly Mushrooms used: 400 grams pieces and stems

Mush Egg Omelette

Instead of usual pork/ham on egg omelette, I decided to add Jolly Pieces and Stems Mushrooms . This one for me is the ultimate breakfast. This is what I usually prepare when my schedule is full and I need a heavy breakfast. It is packed with fiber and protein. A toast or fried rice is all it needs para game na game na magtrabaho si mommy.

Jolly Mushrooms used: 400 gramsPieces and Stems

Kayo ba may gusto din i share na recipe using Jolly Mushrooms? Tag us (@mommypehpot and @jollyeats) kapag nag upload kayo ha