How to Keep the Salt Shaker from Getting Clogged

Trying to keep the salt shaker from getting clogged is an issue for many people. The reason it happens is because of humidity. When there is a lot of humidity, salt grains stick together causing the shaker to get clogged. A good solution for this is to put uncooked rice grains in the shaker mixed with the salt. This will help keep the salt grains from sticking together making it easier to get the salt to come out when you shake it.

Cleaning Sticky Pots

Sticky pots area pain. How can we clean them up? Just put a little bit of water with dish soap in the pot, put it on the stove top and bring the water to boil. Let it boil for a couple of minutes and start scrubbing the pan with a brush. The boiling water mixed with soap should loosen up the sticky food and allow you to just brush everything off. Just make sure you don’t burn yourself with the boiling water.

How to Keep Cilantro Fresh Longer

Grandmas always have good advice to share, and my grandma is an excellent cook so she always shares her cooking/kitchen wisdom with us. Her latest tip was about cilantro.
At my home there is only two of us, my wife and I and we both like cilantro a lot. Even though we like it a lot and use it all the time in our cooking, we always end up throwing some of it away because it goes bad before we can use it all (It would be great if they sold a smaller bunch at the grocery store). What was my grandma’s solution for this? To take the cilantro out of the plastic bag, wrap it around with newspaper and then put it in the refrigerator just like that. I have to say that doing this works pretty well. The cilantro doesn’t go bad as fast as it used to so we hardly have to throw any away now.

Lemon and Salt

Have you ever wondered how else can you dress a salad without using salad dressing? Try putting some lemon juice and a little bit of salt on it next time. It tastes great and it’s healthy too. You can also ad some diced onions (put the diced onions in a colander and wash them with running water while squeezing them hard to take away some of the strong flavor, but if you like them like that you can skip this part). Ad some avocado slices, a little bit of green or red pepper, cilantro and some shrimp. Then let it a sit for about 10 minutes so that everything can absorb the lemon juice and that’s it! You are ready to eat! This is one of my favorite salad recipes. Try it. I hope you like it!