Home made laundry soap for about $2.  This works very well and my laundry smells great.

Grate the Zote soap with a cheese grater add 2 cups borax and 2 cups washing soda.  Blend in blender.  I use 1 T per load of laundry.  This will last a couple of months in my house.

I woke up early this morning so I decided to make these delicious treats.  I got the recipe for the cinnamon bread from plainchicken.com  It is awesome.  For the quiche, I just chopped up some ham, drained some spinach and about 1/2c of swiss cheese.  I put these in the bottom of a frozen pie shell and then whipped up three eggs 1/2 c milk and 1/2 c sour cream in my bullet blender.  I poured them over the top and put the mix in a 375 degree oven for about 45 minutes.  Easy quiche.

Rice Cooker Mac n Cheese

This is easy and so delicious.

All you need is a rice cooker and a few ingredients.

Ingredients:

1- 12 oz box elbow macaroni (or shells or whatever)

1-can condensed milk
1-can milk
2-cans water
2 T chicken bullion
1 1/3 c shredded cheddar
1 1/3 c shredded swiss
1/4 c shredded parmesean

Here is the plan.

Put macaroni, condensed milk, milk, water and chicken bullion into rice cooker. Give it all a stir. Cook on the White Rice setting. When done, stir in cheeses. Viola...Perfect mac-n-cheese.

Garage Cleaning today

Today I am going to get through my garage junk. I am moving my things from the garage to a little storage shed. I am trying to make a more professional office in the garage with an exterior door instead of having people come through my kitchen to the office.

Will post photos later

Whats for dinner

Well, after an interesting mother's day. I need to decide what to fix for dinner. Nothing is really coming to mind as of yet but I am nibbling around the idea of clam chowder.

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Fabric Softener

Last summer I knocked the fabric softener dispenser off the wringer in my washer. I was astonished to find a waxy muck resembling the wax ring from a toilet. I soaked the dispenser in Industrial strength paint thinner for two days and kept shaking out all this black waxy gunk...needless to say, it was disgusting.

I did some checking into it to find there are all sorts of health issues associated with commercial fabric softeners so I decided to make my own. I use a 22 oz bottle of Suave Conditioner (fragrance of your choice), Vinegar and water. First, I pour out all the conditioner into a large bowl then I refill the bottle twice with vinegar stirring each into the conditioner slowly to incorporate. I found if you just dump it all in the bottle and shake you have problems with foam that never seems to go away. Then I add two bottles full of water to the mix and either pour it all into an old fabric softener container (as you see in the photo) or I pour it into the used vinegar bottle. I use the same capful from my fabric softener container or about 1/4 c per load.

Here are the costs

22.5 oz Suave about $1.97

1 gal white vinegar about $2.00 (makes about 2 1/2 batches)

water (minimal to free)

This does about 120 loads. Making the cost about $.02/load.

Note: During the winter, I have more static than normal (even with my old store purchased fabric softener) so I roll up a little ball of aluminum foil and throw it in the dryer and it seems to do the trick.