No Brown Potatoes

Potatoes are an inexpensive staple that adds great versatility to any pantry. You can boil them, mash them, fry them, bake them, or use them in just about any recipe to increase the volume of your meals without increasing the cost.

To prevent your raw potatoes from becoming discolored after you peel them, place peeled potatoes directly into cold water. Before you are ready to use them, drain them thoroughly and then add fresh potatoes to soups and stews or whatever other meal you may be cooking.

Potatoes are by far one of my favorite vegetables. Yummy!

Cutting an Onion

We're all familiar with the smell that comes with cutting an onion. Nobody likes it, but it can't be avoided when cooking with fresh onions.

If you want to eliminate the odor, rub your cutting board with a moist paper towel and salt. This will help remove the onion smell so you can carry on...

Lemon juice works well, too.

Apples

The best apples to use for baking pies are Granny Smith, Gravenstein, Pippin and Northern Spy.

McIntosh apples taste really good, but they become mushy when they are baked.

If you're baking apple pies, be sure to save one for me. My husband adores them.

Money Saver Tip

Most milk will keep up to a week past the pull date if it is stored properly.

Milk that has begun to sour is perfectly fine to use in baked goods even if it doesn't taste so good to drink.

Milk can be frozen, too, so if you find it on sale you can buy it and freeze it for later use. Be sure to pour some of the milk out of the gallon container to leave room for expansion - or pour the milk into smaller, easier to handle containers. When you thaw the milk, you will need to shake it vigorously to mix the butter fat back into the milk.

To make life easier, you could always measure the milk into one cup amounts and freeze the milk in this manner. Then when you are cooking, the milk can be pulled out in pre-measured amounts to make your cooking time a bit faster.