How To Make Freezer Breakfast Burritos

 

Recipe: Make Ahead Breakfast Burritos
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I am not going to add a recipe to this post on make ahead breakfast burritos.  The beauty of the breakfast burrito is you can add anything you want in whatever quantities and ratios you desire as long as you can wrap a flour tortilla around it.

I love these Make Ahead Breakfast Burritos  I can make a bunch of them on the weekend, freeze them individually as I did here with orange slices, and then pack them in a freezer bag.

In the morning I can microwave one and eat it as I sit in traffic.  This is a cheaper alternative to fast food breakfast, and it is very easy.

One thing I like to do with mine (which makes my wife upset with me) is that I also like to fry mine a little to make the shell stay together.

I feel this makes the burrito taste better, but it does make it a little greasier so make sure you take a paper towel or a beeswax cotton wrap with you on your road trip so you don’t get oil stains on your work clothes.

How to Keep Aluminum Foil in its Box

 

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This Aluminum Foil Tip is another one of those quick tips I was surprised I did not know so I share it with the expectation that most of you already know this but it may be new to some of you.

I have a problem in my pantry in that the aluminum foil, wax paper, parchment paper and the like slide out of their boxes and get everything all messed up.

What I learned the other day is that many manufacturers put a cut out at both ends of their wrapping box so that you can press the cut out and a tap sticks out inside the box and keeps the tube of material in place.

Its a modern miracle and works great for me.

I learned while doing this post that my own wife was someone that did not know this tip.  She grew up sheltered, but I had no idea how sheltered….  LOL

Anyway, this tip will help keep your foil cut straight and in the box.  Which for some reason really bothers me.

I’m not OCD but some things tickle my brain and having a cabinet full full of empty foil boxes next to rolls of foil and parchment paper because they all fell out of the box drives me insane.

Recipe: Cheesy Bread

Recipe: Cheesy Bread
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This wonderful recipe sets the lie to the idea that you can pick any two cheap, fast, and good.  My cheesy bread is fast, good, and cheap.

Making Cheesy Bread is simple:

  • Simply take a loaf of bread (I like the dollar loves from the bakery) and score it halfway through in 1/2 inch cross hatching.
  • Next pull the cuts apart and fill with cubed cheese.  Add Lardon (thickly chopped bacon) to the cheese.
  • Lastly I like to lightly spread chopped chives or green onion to the top of my cheesy bread.
  • To cook, just throw it in a preheated oven – I use around 425 and bake the bread for 10 minutes or so until the bread lightly toasts and the cheese melts.

Once this comes out of the oven the boy and I tear it apart.  The cheese and bacon tastes wonderful and the bread soaks it all in.

As I write this, I want to go make me a dose of this cheesy bread right now.

I used this once in a casting video for a show.  It helped get me into consideration, but in the end I lost out.  I am not too disappointed because I would have had to quit my job to be on a yearlong show that only lasted 2 months.

How to Make a Cheap Cable Lug Using Copper Pipe

How to Make a Cheap Cable Lug Using Copper Pipe

How to Make a Cheap Cable Lug Using Copper Pipe
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I needed some large terminal lugs for my microwave spot welder and they were both hard to find and expensive. I decided to make my own cable lug using copper pipe

What I decided to do was make my own out of copper pipe.  This DIY terminal clip was for 2 gauge wire and used a short length of 1/4 copper pipe.

Looking around the hardware store I saw a short section of heavy gauge copper pipe. a 2 feet long section was under $4.00.  This is much lugs cost

Even if this DIY experiment failed, I would not be out a lot of money.  I decided to go for it.  In the end it worked really well.

I used a pipe cutter to cut a couple inches off of the end of the copper tube.

Next I used the vice to smash one end closed.  I could have used a hammer, but the vice gives a little more control.

After the end is smashed flat, drill a hole through the flat end to make a terminal clip.

Lastly we used a swage to press the copper pipe to the wire.  You could solder it, but I find a good pressure fit works well.