How to Make Jogging in a Jug

 

Recipe: Jogging in a Jug
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Jogging in a jug is a commercial drink that I grew up hearing commercials about how is was nature’s cure for everything.  After a while the FDA decided that it was tired of hearing all the commercials and fined them for making unsubstantiated health claims.  While I don’t think that anything cures everything, I do think that the ingredients in this drink are healthy and do provide a benefit.

There are several recipes for Jogging in a Jug clones, but basically they are all some sort of vinegar, and some sort of fruit juice.

For some time I have known the benefits of drinking a small amount of Apple Cider Vinegar (ACV) daily, and their are some studies on ACV and blood sugar.

Luckily, this recipe helps mitigate the strong vinegar taste, even though this is not something you want to drink as a water replacement – stick with it as a supplement and only drink 1/2 to a cup daily.

I am not going to get into the unproven health benefits of it being a digestive aid,a detoxifier, reliever of the common cold, weight loss aid, or how it removes plaque from arteries, keeps soft muscle tissue flexible, relieves headaches, boosts immunity, lowers cholesterol, rids the body of carcinogens, relieves constipation, helps control blood sugar levels and reduces joint pain. because I can’t prove that jogging in a jug does any of that – and I haven’t personally seen any of these benefits from my own use.

However, I do feel better after I drink some – so I think it is worth trying for that reason.

Ingredients:

  • 100% Concord Grape Juice
  • 100% Apple Juice
  • Raw Unfiltered Apple Cider Vinegar (1 cup per quart of each juice)

Procedure

  • Mix together and drink 1/2 cup a day
  • Store in fridge

How to Use a Rubber Band for No Drip Painting

DIY: No Drip Paint Tip
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When I paint, I tend to paint everything – hair, clothes, ceilings, walls, and an extremely irritated house cat.  I’m not saying I am messy, but I do drip paint everywhere.

I found this no drip paint tip to help me stay clean and paint free so I thought I would share.

You can wrap a rubber band around the handles of a paint container so that the top of the bands cross the center of the open can of paint.

Then as you dip your brush in paint, you can rub the excess paint off on the rubber band rather than the side of the container.  The paint will end up back in the can instead of the sides and top of the can itself.

Try it, it works.

I should have done this when I was painting my new fence, but I did not take the time to dig out a rubber band.  This caused me to get paint all over myself as I climbed around the hillside.  This an the aluminum foil tip makes for easy clean up after painting jobs, which is nice because I hate painting.  I wish I could find a better way of painting my beehives because it means I have to paint a lot.

How to Make Koolickles: Pickles Soaked in Kool-Aid

 

Recipe: Koolicles (Fruit Punch Pickles)
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Koolickles or Fruit punch pickles are a cool trick to get your kids to eat pickles.  They are also a neat way to get your kids into the kitchen as this is a very easy recipe.

All it is is pickles soaked in a brine that contains kool-aide or other fruit punch.  It does not take very long to make (besides the amount of time setting in your fridge.

Basically to make fruit punch pickles all you need to do its:

  • Buy a jar of pickles (1/2 or gallon sized is best)
  • Empty it of pickles keeping the brine in the jar (I dumped everything out and then poured the pickle juice back in the jar)
  • Mix your fruit punch powder into the brine (make it very strong – I did not and did not get as good of a result my first try)
  • Replace the pickles into the brine (I also quartered some in the video to see the difference between whole and cut pickles – obviously the cut pickles absorbed more fruit punch)
  • Let sit in the fridge until Osmosis (great time for a science lesson with the kids) sucks the punch into the pickles turning them sweet and colored.

I think koolickles are a hoot – so much so that I have a batch in my fridge right now as several of my nieces and nephews are coming over for a cookout to celebrate my 40th birthday and I plan to get their response to red sugar filled pickles…

Carving a Pumpkin with Tannerite

 

Carving a Pumpkin Dave's Homestead Style
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While I love October, I hate Halloween.  My wife says it is because I am grump and is not happy unless I do something for the date.  We compromise and I go about carving a pumpkin using exploding targets..

I got the idea from fellow Tennessean and YouTuber Hickok45.

This year I use an entire 10 pack of .22 sensitive binary targets from Last man standing.

I had experience using these targets singly, but I wanted more Oomphf, so I mixed all of the included target powder, compressed it and wrapped the mixing bag in duct tape before stuffing it in my pumpkin.

10 packs did not seem 10 times more than a single pack – my hair blew backwards and I felt a large shockwave.

James was taken aback and his first words were “TOO MUCH DAVE!”

Oh well – it was fun and no one got hurt.

I need to do it again once the trailer is gone and I dig a nice hole into the hillside.  I wonder how much dirt would move if I packed a hole with 10 pounds of so?  The problem is that anytime you can see and explosive it can see you – so by being able to aim a rifle at it shrapnel can hit you.

Recipe: Pickled Celery

Recipe: Pickled Celery
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Pickling is an ages old method for food preservation – its works for more than just cucumbers. As a matter of fact, pickled celery is a treat that you must try in homemade chicken salad.

Just like all pickle recipes you need to make a brine, cut up your food, pack it together and let it age.  Pickled celery needs to sit at lease 24 hours after you mix everything, but I try t o wait a little longer before I throw in my egg salad or my favorite tuna fish sandwiches.

I will post the recipe below so you can easily experience the goodness of pickles celery:

 

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 c white vinegar
  • 1/2 c water
  • 1 1/2 T pickling spice*
  • 2 t kosher salt
  • 1 T sugar
  • dash cayenne pepper
  • 4 stalks celery

* A good pickling spice mix is: a bay leaf, 2-3 whole cloves, 2 whole allspice berries, and a teaspoon of mustard seed.

Procedure:

  1. Cut celery into 1/4 slices
  2. Simmer everything but the celery until the sugar and salt has dissolved.
  3. Fill pint jar with the celery and carefully pour the hot mixture over.
  4. Top with water if needed to covered the celery.
  5. Cover and store in the refrigerator. Pickles will be ready after 24 hours

Pickled Celery could not be any easier to make, its a great way to store celery (if processed in a water bath or kept in the refrigerator), and it tastes great.

The best thing is that this pickled celery recipe is not well known so you can surprise everyone with a new recipe…