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Eating Cheetos is serious business

funny, humor, tips | July 20, 2012 | By Jessi

*sings “All I want for Christmas are my two chopsticks”* because really, this is genius.

I don’t know many people who would actually bother to dig out chopsticks in order to eat their favorite messy snack, but if you’re one of them, can we be friends? Because I think it’s awesome.

You’ll probably friend-break-up with me, though, when you discover that, while my chopstick skills are enough to get by with sushi, pho, and occasionally a crab….I’m not going to put out that much effort for a bag of orange snacks.

At best, I’m going to use them like chopsticks.

Ooo, or kabobs!!

I could skewer a whole row of orange puffs onto each stick. Granted, half of them will break right in two, leaving behind a crumbly powdered orange mess, but hey, you’ll clean it up with your amazing chopstick skills, right?

Right??

Friend…where did you go….?

…..

*licks Cheetos dust off the keyboard*

Facts about Food Friday – Chicken stock ice cubes

chicken, facts about food, faf, faff, oamc, once a month cooking, tips, turkey | May 18, 2012 | By Jessi

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FaFF

Mmm, appetizing, right?

That large roaster I love so much is also great for cooking big turkeys or multiple chickens at once. And that much poultry, uh, goodness, means a whole lot of stock can be made at once, too.

You ~~never~~ usually don’t know which recipes you’re going to use in 3 months and how much stock/broth they’ll call for, so a really easy way to store it is to freeze in ice cube trays.

Cool it in the fridge like you normally would, pour into trays, freeze until solid, and then toss them all into gallon sized bags so your trays aren’t monopolized with soup base.They don’t stick together, so later, you can simply pull out a couple for a quick sauce or a couple handfuls for a soup.

Transport thumbprint cookies without squishing them – Eat the mistakes

chocolate, christmas, cookies, holidays, peanut butter, tips | April 12, 2012 | By Jessi

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Thumbprint peanut butter chocolate hershey kiss cookies in a shoe box lid for easy shipping

Thumbprint cookies (you know, the little peanut butter cookies that have a thumbprint sized area in the middle, squished down with a Hershey kiss?) are awesome.

Obviously.

But they suck for trying to do anything with them other than eat them. Now normally this wouldn’t be an issue and they’d never make it past the baking sheet, but occasionally I do share my food.

No really. I swear I have pictures of it somewhere. Maybe.

Thumbprint peanut butter chocolate hershey kiss cookies in a shoe box lid for carrying them to an event

But anyway, even just for making several dozen of these and storing them on your counter to indulge throughout the week, this makes those pointy chocolatey goodies on top much easier to manage. Just put them in a shoebox lid (or flat cardboard box like you’d get flats of canned goods in).

The tips will stay untouched and make it possible to wrap them without waiting for the chocolate to completely reharden (because really, it never does unless you refrigerate them).

Thumbprint peanut butter chocolate hershey kiss cookies in a shoe box lid, wrapped in a ziploc bag so they don't spill or get smashed

Better yet, if you go the shoe box lid route, a gallon-size Ziploc bag will likely fit over it perfectly, which means no fighting with the cling wrap either!

So long as the bag fits tightly or the saran wrap is tight, you can stack a few of these for carrying purposes. I wouldn’t recommend having them stacked for too long, though, simply because the weight may eventually cause the plastic to sag and then you’ll have to eat the entire bottom row of squished mistakes.

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