HOUSEHOLD USES FOR MUSTARD

Mustard.. How many of us just love that good ole yellow stuff. I love mustard on almost anything, even mixing some in my bowl of pinto beans. Nothing is better that a fried bologna sandwich with mustard on the bread and crushed ruffle or plain potato chips on the sandwich and some sliced hot banana peppers. But there are some more uses for it.  Here is a list of uses for that yellow bottle of mustard.

Mix some mustard with 1 teaspoon salt, some lemon juice, honey and 1/2 hot water. Stir good and then let is sit for 10 minutes and stir again. Gargle it for a sore throat. It is a nature sore throat reliever. It will help for 2 days with a sore throat.

How many times do we buy something in a bottle and would like to reuse the bottle but can't on account of the smell left behind. Put some mustard in the bottle with some hot water. Shake the bottle good and then rinse the mustard out. The smell should be gone.

Need a good foot wash for tired feet. Mix two spoonfuls of mustard in some hot water and stir good and bathe your feet in it for 15 minutes.

Some of the older people used to use mustard on burns. It will take away the pain. I know I use meat tenderizer on wasp stings and it takes away the pain, just wet the sting and put some tenderizer on it,so mustard will do the same thing. Just rub some on the sting and it should take away the pain from wasps.

Some say it will take away leg cramps by mixing some with some water and taking a shot glass full.

PARMESAN BAKED TOMATOES

4 Tomatoes, halved horizontally
1/4 Cup or more Grated Parmesan Cheese
1 Teaspoon Chopped Fresh Oregano
1/4 Teaspoon Salt
Fresh Ground Pepper to taste
4 Teaspoons Extra-virgin Olive Oil

Preheat oven to 450. Place tomatoes cut-side up on a sprayed baking sheet. Top with parmeasan, oregano and salt and pepper. Drizzle with oil and bake until the tomatoes are tender about 15 minutes.

RECRISP CHIPS AND CEREALS

If you open up a bag of chips or corn chips or cheetos and don't close them back good we all know they will go stale and not be out of date. To recrisp them put a serving size of them on a plate or in a bowl and put them in the microwave for 30-45 seconds (not minutes). Take out and let them stand for one minute and they will be crisp again. This also works with cereals.

DON'T SALT THE BEANS

We all know that when you want to cook up a big kettle of pino beans you look them, wash them and let them sit in water overnight to reduce the cooking time.
One of my friends wanted to cook a kettle of beans on a gas stove. Now to me gas cooks way quicker than electric. She fixed her beans and cooked them and cooked them and it went around 5 hours and they still was not done. Now this in on a gas stove.
What could have happened, we all know a bean is a bean. We all have our fav. brands of pinto beans. I like Walmart brand or the one that Walmrt sells in the spring that is loose in a big barrel. To me they are the best.
Well, I just wonder if she added her salt while the beans were cooking. That sure sounds like she did.
 You can cook a pot of beans for 10 hours and they still will not get done if you add salt at the beginning of the cooking. Me, I learned the hard way so that is why I know that beans will not cook up done if you add your salt then.
We also put our seasoning in our beans at the beginning of the cook time. Just this past year, I learned from my daughter that you put your sliced salt bacon in around 30 minutes before the beans are done. Now me, I have been cooking for around 35 years. Her, around 10 years. lol. So ole mom can learn something new to. lol.
Add your salt at the end of the cooking. Stir it in good and retaste. Sometimes if it is not stirred good you will add more salt and get them to salty. I also put a stick of Blue Bonnet in mine at the beganing of cooking and just a little oil. Oh, yeah, I know fattening along with the salt bacon.
If you use the chunk of salt bacon then I guess you could put it in at the beginning  as always.
So back to the cooking time. I just wonder if her gas stove is like my sons new one that he got. It has one burner that will not get hot. Oh, he got mad and said it was not working right and called out the service dept. because he had just bought the stove. What did they tell him, The back burner is for simmering and will not get hot as the other five burners, and the one in the middle, is for boiling and gets hotter then all the burners. Maybe we all are not to old to learn new things.
 By the way if you have a self cleaning double ovens, do not stop them in the cleaning cycle as it will mess it up big time also. Guess who done that,,,,, him also. lol. He has been cooking for 20 years. He is one great cook and should have went on and made a chef. But he will not put none of his recipes on here hardly at all. They are most from all our other kin and friends. When you have a big family like ours, someone is always fixing something new and this blog is mosly just to keep them so we wont lose them .  When msn shut down our website we had to create another one to keep up with all of them. Anyone is more than welcome to view them or add them to their blogs. We are just southern country cooks that reallllly love to cook.....

KEEPING GREENS GREEN

When you cook fresh greens sometime they may turn a dark green color. If you will add a small amount of sugar to the water when cooking them they will stay a pretty green color.

PRALINE BISCUITS

Margarine
Brown Sugar
Cinnamon Chopped Pecans
2 Cups Bisquick
1/3 Cup MIlk
1/2 Cup applesauce

Makes 12 muffins. For each muffin cup add 2 teaspoons margarine, 2 teaspoons brown sugar and 2 teasoons chopped pecans. Put in oven on 300 and let melt. Take our of over and then sprinkle with cinnamon. Mix bisquick, milk and applesauce. Equally divide batter on melted topping. Bake at 450 for 10 minutes. Inver onto cookie sheet or large plate for serving.

PORK CHOP CASSEROLE

6 Pork Chops
1 Can Cream of Celery Soup
1/4 Cup Milk
2 Cans green Beans, drained
Salt and Pepper to tasted


Salt and pepper chops, brown and pour off grease. Blend milk and soup together. Add greeen beans. Put chops on top and cover. Bake in 350 oven until chops are tender. Remove cover and bake for 5-10 minutes more.