Don’t Peel Potatoes with an Electric Drill

 

Kitchen DIY: Don't Peel Potatoes with an Electric Drill
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I am sure that I could get this to work, but I promise I did not do this because I wanted it to work – this is an example of a neat idea that is creative but inefficient.

Sometimes it is better just to stick with traditional ways of doing things.

I guess that if I was a professional chef that had to peel hundreds of potatoes each day then this would be worth it, but for the rest of us just dig out the potato peeler.

This Don’t Peel Potatoes with an Electric Drill post was an attempt at humor – even though my wife says I am not as funny as I think I am.  She is right of course, but I am also more funny that SHE thinks I am.

It also did not HAVE to make such a mess, after a potato or two I learned how to make it peel as well as how to make it throw peels.  It has to do with the angle and firmness you hold the peeler.  However, there are plenty of how to peel potatoes with a drill posts on the internet. I figured making a joke post would be something different.

Don’t spend so much time preparing for disaster that you don’t take a little time to enjoy yourself.  I mean, if you can’t have fun, why are you wanting to survive so much?

Anyway, even though this did work, I still don’t think it is efficient or some kitchen skill that is useful.   Who actually wants their potatoes touching power tools?  Do you know where power tools are used?  Just be careful if you decide to Peel Potatoes with an Electric Drill

Recipe: Homemade Cereal

Recipe: Homemade Cereal
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I was surfing the internet the other day and found the coolest family – they have a neat website that happens to be their YouTube channel name (mylittlehomestead.com)

This family of 6 moved from the city to the county and lived in a 24 foot trailer while they hand built their own home. – (earthbag under cob).

Their channel is really cool – the kids build all manner of things, and I got some great ideas from them.

The youngest girl makes some good cooking videos – and one of them was a recipe for homemade cereal. I took this one and modified it a bit (my wife says this is a make again and ate a bowl as soon as it cooled)…

Ingredients

  • 2 cubes of butter (1 Cup)
  • teaspoon of Salt
  • 2 Cups of sugar (this is flexible – I used one cup cane sugar, 1 cup honey, and a bit of maple syrup)
  • 2 pounds of Oats – Instant or regular

Directions

  • Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
  • Put butter, sugar and salt in sauce pan over medium heat until the butter is melted and sugar is somewhat dissolved.
  • Butter a roaster pan to keep oats from sticking.
  • Pour in the oats.
  • Mix in the butter/sugar sauce until all the oats are somewhat moist.
  • Bake for 45 minutes with the lid on.
  • Stir and place back into the oven with the lid off for 15 minutes to brown the top.

Eat plain or add cranberries, raisins or any type of dried fruit.  I mixed in dried apples, strawberries, and bannanas that I had left over from the Excalibur review.

But no matter how you like to eat your cereal, you really ought to check out the mylittlehomestead channel – those parent’s are raising some fine kids who are making some awesome videos.

How to Make Camp Fire Baked Potatoes in a Can

 

Recipe: Camp Fire Baked Potatoes
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Here is a great recipe/technique for Camp Fire baked potatoes that would work well for camping, grilling out, or making food in a grid down SHTF scenario

To bake a potato in a can simply:

  • Remove the entire top of a soda can. (Using you P-38 can opener gets extra points)
  • Smear the whole potato with butter or oil (and any other seasoning you like).
  • Insert the raw potato into the soda can
  • Cover top with aluminum foil and place the can onto the hot coals of your campfire.

The Potatoes bake in the can just as they would in the oven.

This is a great campfire recipe – especially for kids.  It is easy and takes no effort at all.  I find my boy is more likely to try new foods if he was excited about cooking them.  I did say more likely though, he will get out of bed just to crack and egg, but I can’t get him to put one in his mouth for all the sweets in the world.

He will, however, do this.  Maybe its the excitement of cooking on a fire like a mountain man?  I don’t know, but I do know that done right so the potato gets crispy but not burnt this is one awesome tater in a can.

Recipe: Tomato Pie

Recipe: Tomato Pie
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I didn’t marry my wife because of tomato pie, (it was a picture of her nursing a baby goat that made me realize she was the one) but it was high on the pro/con list.

I had never heard of such a thing as tomato pie and was really hesitant to try it, but once I got a fork full I was hooked.

Our first year together was filled with this recipe – we even began to experiment with other additions to the recipe.  I can’t tell you enough how good this is.

However, due to the high cheese content of the pie, and my wife’s dedication to the 21 day fix food plan, I don’t get to eat tomato pie as much as I would like, but I still ask for it on occasion.

As you watch this video, please take a few seconds to give Genny a thumbs up, she works hard for these cooking videos, and her shy and sensitive nature makes her very upset when she reads the troll comments.  Be kind and give her some positive feedback.

I love her tomato pie, but I did make the mistake as a newlywed of commenting how I liked it, but not for every meal.  Now I only get it about once a year.

The Easiest Way to Separate Egg Yolks From Egg Whites

 

Kitchen DIY: Easiest Way to Separate Egg Yolks
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This is a little gimmicky, but I had to try the what is called the easiest way to separate egg yolks from egg whites.

You know what: it is….

To do this “amazing” feat of using a bottle to separate egg yolks, you will need a bowl, some eggs, and an empty plastic soda bottle.

How to Separate Egg Yolks From Egg Whites

  • Crack the eggs into the bowl
  • Pick up the bottle, and squeeze the sides to displace the air inside the bottle
  • Move the neck of the bottle to the edge of a yolk
  • Open your hand to let at back into the bottle, and watch the yolk get sucked up inside the bottle.

You can then pour out the yolks into a separate bowl.

As you can see the exactly how this is the easiest way to separate egg yolks in the video below.

Works great, hope it is useful – at the very least is looks cool and gets you style points when cooking with the family on those big holiday dinners…  I have used this in the kitchen on a recipe, and it works well, but it may not save effort of just using the egg shell to egg shell technique.