How To Clean an Oven With Baking Soda & Vinegar

Keep your cleaning simple with just a few basic resources and no nasty chemicals! Check out "How To Clean an Oven With Baking Soda & Vinegar" to make your oven nearly sparkle! How To Clean The Oven What You Need OvenBaking sodaWaterRubber glovesDamp dish clothPlastic or silicone spatulaSpray bottleWhite vinegar Instructions Remove the oven racks: Remove your oven racks, pizza stone, oven thermometer, and anything else you have inside the oven. Set aside. Make a baking soda paste: In a small bowl, mix a 1/2 cup of baking soda with a few tablespoons of water. Adjust the ratio of both as needed until you have a spreadable...

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10 Meals in 10 Minutes

Are you in a time crunch between all of your priorities?  Check out these ten great meals that you can make in under ten minutes.  You can learn more about quick easy meals at The Kitchn. 1. Quick and Easy Fried Rice: Fried rice can come together even faster than 10 minutes if you happen to have a good selection of leftovers floating around. It's the end-all recipe to using up leftover rice and is tasty enough to eat for any meal of the day — yes even breakfast.2. Apple-Arugula Salad Wraps: Although wraps seem more like a lunch food, for a quick dinner they can contain actual food groups and even do away with dishes...

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Overcome the Winter Depression

Are you ready for summer?  Everyone across the United States is feeling the effects of this winter.  Here are some great tips on how to overcome that winter depression!  You can learn more at apartment therapy.1. Smile. Smiling at our friends when we feel like frowning, really does make a difference for you and them. 2. Look outside at the sky. Even when it's miserable outside, spend time meditating by the window. Look at the bigness of the sky and think outside of the space and present issues of your house. (Both points 1 and 2 are coming from this blog post, a religious blog, but I don't think you necessarily...

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​5 Great Meals to Make Ahead and Freeze

Sometimes there's just no extra time to cook up a complicated meal, so having ones already prepared to eat can be incredibly convenient in a pinch. Check out "​5 Great Meals to Make Ahead and Freeze" to make sure that you'll always have something to chow down on even if you're in a time pinch. Soups While I grew up eating canned soup, that’s not been the case for my kids. The canned variety is generally oversalted, oversweetened, and overpriced. Since it’s so easy to make my own, there’s really no reason not to. I regularly prepare our favorite soups, sometimes two or three varieties at a time, and freeze them in family- and individually-sized...

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