Archive for April 21, 2011

Safeway’s deal of the day for Thursday – Pineapple for Easter!!

Safeway’s Deal  Of  The Day  4/21 is Del Monte Pineapple… .99 cents (limit 2)
Tomorrow the price goes up to $2.99!
Seems like a good time to run to Safeway and pick up two pineapples. One for grilling and one for Pineapple upside down cake. 
Tip: when making an upside down cake, use the pineapple juice instead of water in the cake mix. 
I love grilled pineapple rings. So good with ham.

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Creme Brulee – Super Easy

Creme Brulee
1/2 vanilla bean, chopped into 1/4 inch pieces (or 1 tsp. vanilla extract)
2 T. sugar
1 C. heavy cream
1 C. half-and-half
3 egg yolks
1 egg
1/4 C. sugar
Preheat the oven to 325 degrees.  Pulverize vanilla bean and 2 T. sugar in a coffee grinder. (If using vanilla extract instead of the vanilla bean, skip this step).  Warm the cream, half-and-half and vanilla sugar (or extract and the 2 T. sugar) in a saucepan over medium heat just until it almost boils, then remove from heat.  Whisk egg yolks, egg, 1/4 C. sugar in a mixing bowl for 3-4 minutes till they become sunny yellow.  Slowly whisk hot cream mixture into eggs to temper.  Strain the egg mixture into a measuring cup with a pour spout and divide among the six ramekins.  Arrange dishes in a rimmed baking pan.  Add enough hot water to the pan to come up half way on the sides of the ramekins.  Bake until set, 35-45 minutes; don’t overcook or let brown.  Remove ramekins from the baking pan and cool.  Sprinkle 1 T. superfine sugar on the top of each ramekin, and using a kitchen torch, melt the sugar until it turns a light golden brown.  Let the brulees sit for a few minutes so the topping hardens. – Makes six 4-oz brulees.

*Disclaimer:  I don’t own a kitchen torch (yet) so I had to use my husband’s shop torch which just about blew the sugar off before it could melt.  Your brulees should look much prettier than the one I pictured.

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Cheap Toilet Paper at Rite Aid

While you are at Rite Aid getting your FREE Lysol wipes, you may want to take advantage of a great toilet paper deal as well… 

 Scott bath tissue 12-pack $7.99
– $1/1 Scott 1000-ct printable
(coupons.com)
– Stack with $1/1 Video Values coupon
here 
Final Price: $5.99
(That’s .40 cents per 100 square feet, cheaper than Costco’s Kirkland brand at .94 cents per 100 square feet)

Photo Courtesy of Scottbrand.com .

Clothes Hung Out on the Line

Photo courtesy of getsolar.com

Aww, there’s nothing better than the smell of sheets hung out on the line to dry!  I happen to have a huge rosemary bush that I hang the pillowcases over and they take on just the tiniest hint of rosemary. As soon as the weather starts to warm up just a bit, I’ll be hangin’ the clothes out.  I love the fact that I’m saving on the electricity bill, helping the environment and prolonging the life of my clothes. I read a great tip the other day….hang your shirts on plastic hangers, then put the hangers on the clothesline.  You can fit more clothes on the line and taking them down and putting them away is much quicker. Jeans and towels hung out to dry will become quite stiff but if you put them in the dryer for just a bit they will soften up again.  Another great tip…if you have the type of clothesline like me where you are stringing it across the yard, take it down when you are done.  My son literally “clotheslined” himself one year when I forgot to take it down.  Poor kid, I’ve never forgotten since!.

Knight Flight Batman $12.99

Head on over to Woot today to order this flying Batman with rechargeable batteries. I know a certain boy who would love this for Christmas. I’ll put in away in my gift closet.

Last year I bought my husband the flying helicopter and he proceeded to use it to blow out my mothers centerpiece candles at the dinner table. Some boys never grow up……….

Shipping is always $5 so I usually buy three of a Woot item if I have three people I want to gift. If I get two of these they can have flying wars. Wonder how long till they smash them up?? Oh well, kids will be kids…...

Visit a Public Garden For FREE!

Photo courtesy of bhg.com

On National Public Gardens Day – May 6, 2011 Better Homes and Gardens is offering FREE admission to participating public gardens. Go to BHG.com/freegarden for details, to see the list of all participating gardens (the only garden participating in Washington is Powells Wood in Federal Way, which looks beautiful by the way) and to print out the voucher. Treat your mom to an early Mother’s Day!


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