Pineapple Mint Julep Recipe

For those who love a nice refreshing beverage, here’s a nice cool pineapple one! Put your glasses or mugs into the freezer to really make your drinks make that splash with your guests or family and friends at your house tonight! This is my version of an oldie but goodie recipe!

Ingredients:

6+ sprigs of fresh mint
3/4 cup sugar
3/4 cup fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon lemon zest
4 cups unsweetened pineapple juice
2 cups ginger ale (diet is fine too, or flavored seltzer)
1 cup Alcohol of your choice – Bourbon is traditional, but I would use vodka or white rum too with super excellent results.
Ice
Pitcher
Wooden spoon or wooden potato masher

Directions:

Put rinsed mint into pitcher, take leaves off their stems.
Add lemon zest.
Add sugar on top of mint and zest.
Mash for at least one or two minutes really well, bruising the mint.
Add lemon juice and let stand for 15 minutes.
This is when you call your GF to come on over for early evening drinks if you already haven’t done so.
Add pineapple juice, ginger ale.
***For extra decadence, wet rims of cold glasses with a little of pineapple juice or lemon, then place glass down into small plate with a little sugar so that the rims are covered in sugar.
Put ice into drinks, add alcohol to desired amount, then add mix into drink.
Add fresh sprig of lime.
Makes almost 8 cups, enough for 4 people having two drinks.
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Remove Water Rings On Wood Furniture Organically

Who knew – the wonder’s of mayonnaise – full flavor and all the fat please – but do you have rings on your good furniture – we have used this trick for years – and it really works fantastic…no need to restain your antiques.

Ingredients:

2-3 tablespoons mayonnaise
1 or 2 paper towels
6 hours or more needed to let stain be naturally removed… see below

Directions:

Locate ring from leaving your favorite ice tea or other cold drink that has now left a water mark on your Grandmother’s passed down antique table top.
Grab full fat mayonnaise (miracle whip ok too here folks)
Spread 2 tablespoons of mayonnaise covering water ring.
Gently place paper towel over water ring and slabbed on mayo- it’s more to remind you that the mayonnaise is there than anything else while keeping the area moist.
We used to leave it over night, but by 6 hours, wipe clean and voila, water ring is removed.
Why does this work??? The fat in the mayonnaise gently gets reabsorbed into the water ring mark leaving you and your favorite antique table top looking fantastic…
This is great in the summer when people forget to use coasters under their iced drinks…

Warm Hot Dogs For Kids Lunch Boxes Recipe

My mom used to do this for me when I was a kid, and I would become the envy of all the other kids, since I was served a warm lunch and was eating a kid fave! – Hot dogs for lunch while others ate their boring sandwiches! Neat trick, easy to do, you are going to think, now why didn’t I have a mother who did this? No more boring cheese and mayo sandwiches ever again! I couldn’t stand those!

Ingredients:

1 or 2 hot dogs
1 or 2 hot dogs buns
1 thermos tall enough for two hot dogs to go into.
plain white twine or string
boiling water
your kids favorite packets of ketchup, mustard, etc.

Directions:

You will feel like you are very artsy and craftsy with this, but its fun to do and oh so easy!
Great to do when you know its going to rain that day your kid goes to school.
Tie strings with a simple bow around hot dogs and make string long enough to reach outside the thermos.
Place hot dogs with strings inside thermos, with long string hanging up and out of thermos.
Pour boiling water inside thermos.
Close up thermos – the one I had, never leaked, so I would test try this to find the right thermos that closes even though there’s a string(s) hanging outside of it.
Wrap up the one or two hot dog buns as needed.
We never went to fast food restaurants when I was a kid, so my mom made homemade ketchup packets out of waxed paper and staples (hilarious looking but it worked!)
By the time its lunch time, the hot dogs are ‘cooked’ and ready to eat.
When it’s the kids time for lunch, they simply go to a sink, open up the thermos, pour off the water, holding on to the string so their hot dogs don’t go down sink of course and then sit down and prepare themselves their hot dogs just the way they like them.
Other kids will drool looking at your kid enjoying their hot meal, while looking at their own sagging and sogging white bread plain old sandwiches while you kid enjoys relishing in having a hot meal for lunch!