Taste of Home - Taste of Home Kitchen Hacks: 100 Hints, Tricks Timesavers—and the Recipes to Go with Them

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For the first time, the team at Taste of Home assembled the best timesaving hacks, tips and how-tos into one terrific book!

Inside, our Test Kitchen pros share tricks of the trade you simply wont believe. Learn how to save time in the kitchen, cut costs at the grocery store and entertain with ease. Enjoy light-bulb ideas for organizing your kitchen, going green and creating economical household cleaners youll wonder how you ever lived without.

The secrets to preparing hearty in-a-hurry breakfasts, change-of-pace lunches and impressive desserts that come together in a pinch are all at your fingertips. Its never been so simple to eat seasonally, cook healthfully, and set delicious meals on the table fast.

In fact, youll find 222 recipes that use the hacks and techniques found here. Not only will you discover new ways to cookyoull likely start adding your own creative twists to family favorites.

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GENIUS SNACK & PARTY HACKS

[ Great hosts make it look so easyand you can, too, with these quick tricks for simple snacks, drinks and appetizers. Let the good times roll. ]

Apple Cartwheels

Stuff apples with a yummy filling, then slice the fruit into rings to make eye-appealing after-school snacks. The filling is an irresistible combination of creamy peanut butter, sweet honey, miniature chocolate chips and raisins.

Miriam Miller, Thorp, WI

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Prep: 20 min. + chilling Makes: about 2 dozen

1/4 cup peanut butter

1 1/2 tsp. honey

1/2 cup miniature semisweet chocolate chips

2 Tbsp. raisins

4 medium unpeeled Red Delicious apples, cored

In a small bowl, combine peanut butter and honey; fold in chocolate chips and raisins. Fill hollow centers of apples with peanut butter mixture; refrigerate for at least 1 hour. Cut into 1/4-in. rings.

1 piece: 50 calories, 3g fat (1g saturated fat), 0 cholesterol, 13mg sodium, 7g carbohydrate (6g sugars, 1g fiber), 1g protein.

Snackers

These crispy, chewy treats are our favorite travel snack. I always make a double batch so we have some left when we reach our destination.

W. H. Gregory, Roanoke, VA

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Takes: 20 min. Makes: about 1 1/2 dozen

3 cups Crispix cereal

1/2 cup salted peanuts

1/3 cup packed brown sugar

1/3 cup corn syrup

1/4 cup peanut butter

In a large bowl, combine cereal and peanuts; set aside.

In a microwave, heat brown sugar and corn syrup for 30-60 seconds or until sugar is dissolved, stirring occasionally. Stir in peanut butter. Pour over the cereal mixture; toss to coat. Drop by rounded tablespoonfuls onto waxed paper.

2 pieces: 190 cal., 8g fat (1g sat. fat), 0 chol., 156mg sod., 28g carb. (16g sugars, 1g fiber), 5g pro.

HACK

To make natural or homemade peanut butter super easy to mix, just store the jar upside-down. Flip the jar right side up and the oil, which will have settled to the bottom of the jar, will rise back to the top, making it easier to incorporate.

Homemade Peanut Butter

By making my own peanut butter, I know exactly what goes into itand its a whole lot tastier!

Marge Austin, North Pole, AK

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Takes: 15 min. Makes: About 1 cup

2 cups unsalted dry roasted peanuts

1/2 tsp. salt

1 Tbsp. honey

Process nuts and salt in food processor until desired consistency, about 5 minutes, scraping sides as needed. Blend in honey. Refrigerate.

1 Tbsp.: 111 cal., 9g fat (1g sat. fat), 0 chol., 75mg sodium, 5g carb. (2g sugars, 2g fiber), 4g pro. Diabetic exchanges: 2 fat.

Creamy Irish Coffee

My maternal grandmother seldom drank more than a single glass of champagne at Christmas, but she couldnt resist my Creamy Irish Coffee.

Rebecca Little, Park Ridge, IL

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Takes: 10 min. Makes: 4 servings

3 cups hot strong brewed coffee

4 oz. Irish cream liqueur

Sweetened whipped cream and chocolate shavings, optional

Divide coffee and liqueur among 4 mugs; stir. If desired, top with sweetened whipped cream and chocolate shavings.

3/4 cup : 118 cal., 4g fat (0 sat. fat), 0 chol., 1mg sod., 8g carb. (6g sugars, 0 fiber), 0 pro.

HACK

A Little Indulgence

Reach for the immersion blender when you need to whip up a small amount of cream. Its handy that you can whip it right in a tumbler or measuring cup.

Heavenly Drinking Chocolate

The name says it allsipping this beverage is like experiencing an out-of-this-world blend of dark and milk chocolate. The only thing to make it better? A dollop of whipped cream on top.

Taste of Home Test Kitchen

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Takes: 20 min. Makes: 5 cups

4 cups half-and-half cream

2 bars (3 1/2 oz. each) 70% cacao dark chocolate, chopped

2 oz. milk chocolate, chopped