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Reader Tip: Keep Your Appliances in Their Best Shape
Dishing out extra dough to fix pricey appliances is a real pain so it's in your best interest to keep them in tip-top shape. Consumer Reports recently put out a helpful guide to making appliances last, but washing machines didn't make the list. Thank goodness for the Thrifty Tips — Getting The Most Out of Life group in the SavvySugar Community.
Another Reason to Dress Your Salad With Vinaigrette
Ranch, blue cheese, and thousand island might make your taste buds happy, but they're pretty disappointing when it comes to nutrition. If you've been trying to fool yourself into thinking that a concoction of vegetables and saturated-fat-laden creamy dressing is healthy, it won't take long for your waistline to notice.
Enter your salad and weight-
friendly dressing, the vinaigrette.
Yummy Links: From In-N-Out to Home Brewing
- Will In-N-Out Burger finally become a national standby? — The Feedbag
- There are so many ways (beyond salad dressing) to use vinegar and citrus. — Chow
- If you love bruschetta, consider Spain's delicious variation, Pa amb Tomaquet.
Definition: Mignonette
Mignonette
A classic condiment for raw oysters served on the half shell, mignonette sauce typically contains vinegar and shallots, and may also include oyster liquor, seasonings, and herbs.
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Casa Quickie: Salt Stains on Carpet
If you live in a snowy climate, chances are that family and visitors may be tracking salt into your home on the bottoms of their boots. Of course, the first line of defense is to ask everyone to take their shoes off in your entry. But what if your entry rug, or other carpeted space in your home, gets stained with the salt?
How-To: Ten Garden Uses For White Vinegar
Now that you know the household uses for white vinegar, I thought you might like to know how you can expand its use to your garden. As you may remember, white vinegar is an eco-friendly product, and it's also cheap: You can buy a gallon of white vinegar for less than $3.
The word "vinegar" is from the French term vin aigre, meaning "sour wine."
How-To: Ten Household Uses For White Vinegar
Not so long ago, I told you about some of the ways you can use baking soda around your house. Now, I've got some great uses for another eco-friendly product: white vinegar. Not only is white vinegar eco, it's also cheap: You can buy a gallon of white vinegar for less than $3.
Casa Quickie: Cleaning Chrome
Desire to Inspire recently wrote about her experience restoring a '70s chrome chair and shared her trick for removing tarnish from chrome — vinegar and aluminum foil! Moisten, but don't saturate, aluminum foil with some full-strength white vinegar, and rub the chrome with lots of elbow grease! A lot of scrubbing will do the trick, and then wipe off the black gunk with a soft cloth afterwards.
Casa Quickie: Window Streaks
Got streaks? Use horizontal strokes when cleaning your windows inside, and vertical strokes outside. That way, if you wind up with streaks on your windows, you'll know automatically which side of the window they're coming from.
Yum's February Must Haves
Although February is a short month, there are a lot of things worth celebrating. You could warm up your kitchen with some torched sugar, or warm up your place settings with a little bit of red. To see what's on our February Must Have list, click "Start Slideshow" below!
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