Martha Stewart vs Me

Martha's way #1: Stuff a miniature marshmallow in the
bottom of a sugar cone to prevent ice cream drips.

My way: Just suck the ice cream out of the bottom of the
cone, for Pete's sake, you are probably lying on the couch with your
feet up eating it anyway.

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Martha's way #2: Use a meat baster to "squeeze" your
pancake batter onto the hot griddle and you'll get perfectly shaped
pancakes
every time.

My way: Buy the precooked kind you nuke in the microwave
for 30 seconds. The hard part is getting them out of the plastic bag.

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Martha's way #3: To keep potatoes from budding, Place an
apple in the bag with the potatoes.

My way: Buy Hungry Jack mashed potato mix and keep it in
the pantry for up to a year.

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Martha's way #4: To prevent egg shells from cracking,
add a pinch of salt to the water before hard boiling.

My way: Who cares if they crack, aren't you going to
take the shells off anyway?

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Martha's way #5: To get the most juice out of fresh
lemons, bring them to room temperature and roll them under your palm
against
the kitchen counter before squeezing.

My way: Sleep with the lemons in between the mattress
and box springs.

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Martha's way #6: To easily remove burned on food from
your skillet, simply add a drop or two of dish soap and enough water
to cover bottom of pan, and bring to a boil on stove top.

My way: Eat at Chili's every night and avoid cooking.

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Martha's way #7: Spray your Tupperware with nonstick
cooking spray before pouring in tomato based sauces and there won't be any
stains.

My way: Feed your garbage disposal and there won't be
any leftovers.

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Martha's way #8: When a cake recipe calls for flouring
the baking pan, use a bit of the dry cake mix instead and there won't be
any white mess on the outside of the cake.

My way: Go to the bakery. They'll even decorate it for you.

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Martha's way #9: If you accidentally over salt a dish
while it's still cooking, drop in a peeled potato and it will absorb the
excess salt for an instant "fix me up."

My way: If you over salt a dish while you are cooking,
that's too darn bad. My motto: I made it and you will eat it and I
don't care how bad it tastes.

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Martha's way #10: Wrap celery in aluminum foil when
putting in the refrigerator and it will keep for weeks.

My way: Celery?

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Martha's way #11: Brush some beaten egg white over pie
crust before baking to yield a beautiful glossy finish.

My way: The Mrs. Smith frozen pie directions do not
include brushing egg whites over the crust and so I don't do it.

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Martha's way #12: Place a slice of apple in hardened
brown sugar to soften it.

My Way: Brown sugar is supposed to be "soft"?

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Martha's way #13: When boiling corn on the cob, add a
pinch of sugar to help bring out the corn's natural sweetness.

My Way: The only kind of corn I buy comes in a can.

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Martha's way #14: To determine whether an egg is fresh,
immerse it in a pan of cool, salted water. If it sinks, it is fresh, but
if it rises to the surface, throw it away.

My way: Eat, cook, or use the egg anyway. If you feel
bad later, you will know it wasn't fresh.

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Martha's way #15: Cure for headaches: Take a lime, cut
it in half and rub it on your forehead. The throbbing will go away.

My way: Martha, dear, the only reason this works is
because you can't rub a lime on your forehead without getting lime juice in

your eye, and then the problem isn't the headache anymore, it is because
you are now blind.

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Martha's way #16: Don't throw out all that leftover
wine. Freeze into ice cubes for future use in casseroles and sauces.

My way: Leftover wine?

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Martha's way #17: If you have a problem opening jars:
Try using latex dishwashing gloves. They give a non slip grip that
makes opening jars easy.

My way: Go ask the very cute neighbor to do it.

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Martha's way #18: Potatoes will take food stains off
your fingers. Just slice and rub raw potato on the stains and rinse with
water.

My way: Mashed potatoes will now be replacing the anti-
bacterial soap in the handy dispenser next to my sink.

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Martha's way #19: Now look what you can do with Alka
Seltzer.
* Clean a toilet. Drop in two Alka-Seltzer tablets, wait
twenty minutes, brush and flush. The citric acid and effervescent action
clean vitreous china.
* Clean a vase. To remove a stain from the bottom of a
glass vase or cruet, fill with water and drop in two Alka-Seltzer
tablets.
* Polish jewelry. Drop two Alka-Seltzer tablets into a
glass of water and immerse the jewelry for two minutes.
* Clean a thermos bottle. Fill the bottle with water,
drop in four Alka-Seltzer tablets, and let soak for an hour (or
longer, if necessary).


My way: Put your jewelry, vases, and thermos in the
toilet. Add some
Alka-Seltzer and you have solved a whole bunch of
problems at once.