Making some dough on your spare time

If you are home alot and have an interest in crafting, you can make nylon flowers arrangements. With a low cost for the raw material, this can be sold for easy 3 to 5 times your investment. Pick up some vases from the goodwill, add some rocks and insert your nylon flowers. Looks like lot of fun as well. Take a look at this demo video from www.newsheer.com



Making some dough on your spare time

Money don't grow on trees, but it does in pots.

Of all the things you can grow in a pot, tomatoes is the least useful plant to grow. Beside, tomatoes are relatively cheap when in season. If I had a limited space to grow anything, I would suggest growing basil. While you can use basil wherever you use tomatoes, it can be propagated very easily. Basil, especial pesto is great with many dishes, including base for pizza, all kinds of meat, pasta, or spread it on toasted bread (home made of course). They are many recipe out on the web, use the one that you like. Just got done making another batch of pesto and got about 5 cups of pesto. Just pour it into a ice cub tray or something like it, freeze it solid. And when it is time to transfer them to your vacuum sealed bags (got a foodsaver? no get one) heat the bottom for a short time. Pop them out and put them back in the freezer for several minutes. Them pack them in the Foodsaver's bag, and freeze them. you will have pesto year around. The cost saving are worth it. I figure I saved about 15 bucks or more. It's like grow money!

Note: also look up the prunning requirment to maximized you harvest.

That's a bad, bad girl.

Now and when or once a month it seems like, I got to dump that bad bad girl. No matter how much love I have for her, she keeps on going bad. Everything seems fine at the beginning. But as times passes her smell, her taste, turns sour for what ever reason. As I watch her go down the drain with a teary eye, I reminisced the good times we spend together. She was there when I had coffee, or cereal in the morning. But now she's got to go. Time to get a new one. I just hope that the expiration date on this gallon of milk will be longer that the last one.

A good way to stop dumping sour milk is to cook with it right before the expiration date is reached. One way is to make some crepes. It is very simple to do and can be frozen with wax paper between them. I usually roll them up with ham, parsley,white sauce (made with milk), and Swiss cheese. To reheat them, I highly recommend to use a skillet over medium low. The crepe will develop a nice crisp edge which adds another depth to the dish. Serve with a green salad, and a tall glass of fresh milk! Goodby bad girl, hellooo good girl.

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If frozen, thaw out overnight or use the microwave thawing option.

Easy bread, and inexpensive

I had been looking for a fool proof recipe to make french baguettes that was easy and simple with little work(as opposed to a recipe that's perplexing, difficult and virtually guaranteed to fail).
Big thanks to Warren Prince recipe. I have made bread using his technique and I must say that it is easy and wonderful. The bread comes out crusty and light. I have triple the ingredients the last two times I made bread. Why make 4 loafs when you could make 12! It takes the same amount of time and effort.
After I crunched the numbers, given that you buy the bread flour(12 bucks for 50 pounds) and the yeast (4 bucks for a pound) from costco, each loaf cost about 36 cents, including the cost of baking them. I used to buy bread of similar quality for about 2 bucks. Total savings for one day baking 19.98 dollars.
Now you must wonder how can anyone eat so much bread before it goes bad. Simple, you must be french to be able to intake such large quantities of bread in a short time. Other nationalities are just not built to handle all of the bread without OD'ing.
Actually I put them in bags and freeze them(got a big freezer). I used the bags that came with the bread I bought from the store or just wrap them in plastic. They will be as delicious once thawed. Follow this video from Warren Prince.

Turning lead to gold

In all of history of alchemy , turning lead into gold has been the holly grail. Even Newton dabble around that idea. What Newton and alike did not have to make this come true, was a internal combustion engine, simply put they did not drive. but you do.
I have been turning lead into gold for a long while now. The recipe is simple, take that darn lead foot of ours, lighted it a bit and enjoy your gold, or in this case your savings. I used to drive to work on the freeway at about 70 to 75 mph. When gas got pricey, I slowed down to about 60 mph. The results are as follow. On a full tank, I used to get 286 miles at 70 to 75 mph before the "idiot" light came on. Now by driving at around 60 mph I get about 380 miles per full tank... Turning a lead foot into gold? Works for me.
This is my personal experience with my vehicle result may vary. I also have a stick shift and do lots of coastings when possible. Beside, by lowering your speed, you will avoid the possibility of getting a ticket. Now that is good savings.