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5 Useful ideas for empty Holiday Popcorn tins
If you’ve read any of my articles, you know I am a big fan of reuse, make and do with items that we find in our daily lives. Metal popcorn tin, many of us have a gift during the holidays, is one of my favorite things to recycle.
Here are five ways that I’ve used several of them in my home:
[1] Tin makes a wonderful portable charcoal grill for a picnic or camping. Use a cap opener for doing some air holes, about one inch from the bottom of the can increase air circulation. Crumble a few large pieces of foil, two metres in length or more, in a loose ball and place them at the bottom of the Tin. Add a light to light charcoal to the top of foil.
You can use an old rack from a cooking stove, refrigerator or canner to grill your food. After washing and drying, easy rub a small amount of olive oil over tines then placed on the Tin rim. Find a match and get ready to make the food of your choice, to let the grill to get warm before placing your meat on it. Tin lasts 1-2 seasons, depending on how often you use it.
[2] using the same method, you can also have a portable smokers by adding moist to wet hickory chips on coal, then place your meat a few centimeters above the ground. My insert came from my old canner, all I did was to turn it upside down and sit my meat on it. You will need to add some holes in the lid on the Tin, releasing some of the smoke. I used a hammer and a large nail to form a large and small circle in the lid. Soon you will be known as the best chef on the camp grounds.
[3] Pop Corn jerricans also make great memory devices of season clothes. Place clean clothes in Tin, add a softener sheets before putting the lid on your clothes will still be fresh smell when they are needed. In most cases, cans airtight, bugs, ants and other little no seeums cannot decide to make your winter clothes home.
[4] Pop Corn jerricans also makes a great storage container for dry pet food. If you buy your pet food in large paper sacks, ben these great to keep food, dry and fresh for your four cans work family members.
[5] If you have run out of room in your pantry shelves can goods, pop corn Tin is ideal for storing extra, goods in, my mother kept three of them stacked in a corner of his kitchen. She had them colored coded with red food [tomatoes, etc] of a green food [beans, broccoli, etc.] in another, and packaged food items in the third.
If you are fortunate enough to get one of these versatile cans for Christmas, enjoy the pop corn with a smile, to know what a great gift that you have been blessed to hold in your hands.
Holiday Zabaglione with fresh raspberries and strawberries-made easy with Pudding Mix
Professional chefs add wines to recipes to bring out the flavors of the ingredients. You can do the same thing. Red, white and dessert wines can improve many recipes. Zabaglione, a foamy Italian Custard, is usually flavoured with dray Marsala. You need a double boiler, or create a double boiler with a large saucepan and glass or metal Bowl on top.
Custard mixture is whisked over simmering water. You can go from some recipes, but you cannot walk away from this and need Whisk constanty.
By Tyler Florence advertises on its Web site, “keep working out which arm and whisk vigorously in 5 minutes.” He has published the classic recipe on its website. I found a different version on Epicurious site and it is seasoned with Grand Marnier, a delicious and expensive orange liqueur. Fortunately, wearing my local wine store small bottles for cooking purposes.
Susie Smith’s book, “Fruit: The Essential kitchen,” contains a similar recipes flavoured with orange liqueur. She serves the dessert, hot and tops it with strawberries and mango. If you have time and desire to make this Blog from scratch, too. But if you’re pressed for time, don’t feel guilty about using a pudding mix.
Although I prefer to top Custard with fresh fruit, it is not always available in the middle of winter in Minnesota. The fresh berries, if the store has them, look good, but they are tasteless. Berries can also be damaged. You might have encountered similar problems. Today processors freeze fruit on top of their quality and frozen berries can be replaced with fresh. Lighter holidays and get your guests ‘ faces smiles through Holiday Zabaglione.
Ingredients
3 1/2-ounce packages with vanilla pudding (regular or sugar-free)
Zest of one lemon
Dash salt
1 1/2 cups skim milk
1/2 teaspoon vanilla
1/2 cup dry sherry
1/2 cup heavy cream, whipped cream
1/2 cup fresh strawberries, sliced
1/2 cup of fresh raspberries
1 Tablespoon sugar
Method
Pour pudding mix in small saucepan. Add the lemon zest and salt. Gradually add milk and cook over medium heat until the mixture thickens. Remove from heat and stir in sherry and vanilla. Transfer the pudding to a bowl, put plastic wrap over the surface, and refrigerate for at least an hour. Whip cream until you have soft, but not stiff, peaks. Fold whipped cream to chilled pudding. Spoon mixture into dessert dishes. Combine the strawberries, raspberries and sugar. When the sugar has dissolved, top each dessert with berries and Garnish with mint, if desired. Makes 6 servings.
