Using hangers to make a room divider.

Create different types of figurines using bottle caps

Throw Blanket into Shower Curtain

Links

Perennial Vegetables to Establish Now for Your Survival Garden

16 Foods That’ll Re-Grow from Kitchen Scraps

15 Quick Fixes to Make Around Your House

http://www.livinggreenandfrugally.com/how-to-keep-eggs-9-to-12-months/

PINEAPPLE BANANA CAKE WITH COCONUT FROSTING

This cake is very moist and the frosting makes is even more so.  Makes a great dessert for family or guests.  I love it with my morning coffee.

2 1/2 cups all-purpose flour

1 cup sugar

2 teaspoons baking soda

1 1/2 teaspoons ground cinnamon

1 (20 ounce) can crushed pineapple, undrained

2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 stick butter or margarine or 8 tablespoons or 1/2 cup, melted

3 eggs

3 bananas, peeled and cut into small pieces  ( I just take a knife and cut into pieces about the size of a dime)

 

Combine flour, sugar, baking soda and cinnamon in a large mixing bowl.  Mix well with a wire whisk.  Pour pineapple into a smaller bowl, add vanilla extract, melted butter and eggs. Add bananas to pineapples mixture and mix with a spoon.  Add the pineapple and bananas to the dry ingredients and mix well with a spoon.  Pour into a sprayed 9 x 13 baking dish and bake in preheated 350 degree oven for 40 to 45 minutes until cake is brown on top and tests done. Frost with icing of your choice or the coconut frosting below.

Coconut Frosting

 

3/4 cup sugar

1 (12 ounce) can evaporated milk

1 stick butter or margarine

3 1/2 to 4 cups coconut

1 cup nuts of your choice (I used walnut pieces)

 

Combine all ingredients but the nuts and bring to boil on top of the stove. Stir to keep from burning.  Boil about five minutes until thickens.  Remove from heat and fold in nuts.  Let stand about 10 to 12 minutes before putting on cake.

 

Enjoy!

 

Note: This cake is good with cream cheese frosting, too.

Vertical Planters

rope & scrap wood.  Perfect for an indoor herb garden.

Buttermilk Substitute

Buttermilk Substitute

Ingredients:
Milk (just under one cup)
1 Tablespoon white vinegar or lemon juice

Directions:
Place a Tablespoon of white vinegar or lemon juice in a liquid measuring cup. Add enough milk to bring the liquid up to the one-cup line. Let stand for five minute. Then, use as much as your recipe calls for.

Pallet Chicken Coop

Coop for the night and weather shelter is on the right, two story with a ramp. The planter box on top was a free shipping crate from a stone company where we got the free pallets. Left 2/3 is a running grassy area for my Rhode Island Reds to run around.
Built by Eric + Olivia Maynard 3/2013

KITCHEN ISLAND

Use for Vinegar

TIP: Soak old paint brushes in HOT vinegar for 30 minutes and then wash. The old paint will come out and they will be as good as new! 

DIY Dishwasher tablets

1 C Borax
1 C Arm & Hammer Washing Soda
1/2 C Epsom salt
3/4 C lemon juice

1. Mix dry ingredients together in a medium sized bowl. Add the lemon juice and mix completely. You want the mixture to be wet enough to mold without falling apart. Add additional lemon juice if needed.
2. These dry very quickly so working quickly and one at a time, portion out a tablet around 2 tablespoons. I used a small cookie scoop. With wet hands, form the tablet into whatever shape needed to fit the soap dispenser in your dishwasher. Place on a sheet of wax paper and let dry for a few hours before putting in a storage container. If a tablet happens not to fit into the dispenser, just toss it in the bottom of your dishwasher.