Cook Wannabee

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I do enjoy food. Sometimes, I even enjoy the making of it. Most of the time, if it ready to eat, I am happy,

Have you realized that there are lot of other uses for food other than just eating it? I have heard of egg shampoos, milk shampoos, beer shampoos for starters. You can use vinegar (which counts as a food item) and newspapers to make windows clean and sparkle, they will also not fog up as easily as before. Vinegar can help clean up the interiors of coffee percolators and remove any calcium build up. You can use peanut butter to help remove gum from fabric surfaces. You can use mayo to help make you hair shiny and have more body.

Salt can be used for more than preserving food, it can be used to help clean glass coffee pots. Many waitresses in restaurants have learned this by having to do it with salt and ice. Salt can also be used to preserve snake skins so they can be used. My husband has done this many times. He also uses Neets Foot Oil afterwards to make the skin soft and pliable.

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Who is it that truly designs kitchens for apartments? Has that person ever had to actually use one that they have designed? Sometimes I do wonder about that myself.

It is the same thing with the public bath rooms that can be found in many places. The way things are arranged can truly be a pain in the back or other places. I have actually heard very slender people complain about how things are arranged. That means that the normal or over-weight person wouldn’t have a chance would they?

Any way, back to the kitchen again. Where we live now the kitchen isn’t so bad, except for the need for more shelf space. I have it easy. My mother-in-law (yes, sometimes they can be very helpful) gave me a rather large metal shelf rack that is installed and very well used. It sits right next to the ‘fridge’ and couldn’t be in a better spot. We usually keep it well occupied with the things that sometimes have no regular place to be stored. With Hurricane season coming up, we have a lot of different bottles of water for ‘just in case’. A nice lady that I know used to call that type of water - bomb water. She probably still does call it that. We call it ’storm water’. Having storage in your kitchen is really nice. Just once, though, it would be nice for an actual cook to design the kitchens for apartments. Architects are very handy, but they are not cooks, are they?

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Did you ever want to write something, but had no idea what to say? Well, that happens to me sometimes. Then I wonder what is going on when my thoughts go blank. A piece of cheese right now would help. I know, usually chocolate is what some go for, but I am a cheese lover.

I need to get some sleep, but my mind is active - sort of. My cats are exploring the under sink cabinets, I hear thumps, rattles, and other noises. They have been there before, but keep going back. I mean under the kitchen sink hasn’t changed for use in years. Bottles, tightly closed of course, a box of sos pads or their equivalent, dust - what is there to see? I am surprised that they do not get on the counters. There is more stuff there. Dishes, silverware, knick-knacks, paddy-wacks, and other stuff. I am still looking at the cheese of course. Hmmmm, maybe a grilled cheese sandwich? It is almost midnight though. Maybe bed woul be better. Nite all

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My husband calls the tower on the computer the coffee percolator. Sometimes it does its thing and makes a lot of clicking noises and sounds like it is groaning and moaning. I have no idea what it is doing, but it sounds very busy.

The first time he heard this he asked if I had some water on the stove to boil because he heard the coffee pot percolating away on the stove. He went in there and noticed the stove was off. He came out into the dining room where the computer is set up and announced that the coffee percolator was the computer box. Well, it has been called the percolator ever since then. I guess new names show up every day.

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