DAILY RECIPE: Banana Mousse Dessert

1 can evaporated milk
1 cup powdered sugar
1 tablespoon Knox
1/4 cup water
1 banana


Place can of milk in the freezer for 30 minutes. Meanwhile blend banana. Set aside. Blend milk and sugar until double its original volume. Dissolve Knox in hot water and add. Add banana and fold everything together. Pour in cups and refrigerate.

TIP OF THE DAY

Chop 1/2 an onion and keep in an air tight container in the fridge. When in a hurry, it will be ready for cooking.

HALLOWEEN CRAFT: Beware signs!

Old carboard boxes

Colored paper

Glue

Hot glue

Long lawn sticks

Cut wide strips from the carboard boxes. Cover with colored paper. Cut out letters from paper and glue to the sign. Some ideas: BEWARE, DO NOT ENTER, ENTER AT YOUR OWN RISK, TRICK OR TREAT, HAPPY HALLOWEEN, WATCH OUT FOR GHOSTS, BEWARE OF GOBLINS, etc. Hot glue a lawn stick to each sign and decorate your front yard for trick or treaters.

DAILY RECIPE: Easy tomato noodle soup

1 tomato

4 cups chicken broth

1 small bag noodles

salt

butter

Blend tomato with salt and 1 cup of the chicken stock. In a little butter sauteé noodles in a large pot. Add tomato mixture and mix until all noodles are coated well and liquid has evaporated a bit. Add remaining chicken broth and bring to a boil. Lower heat, and continue to cook until noodles are tender.

TIP OF THE DAY

When cleaning out your child´s bedroom, take 3 plastic bags with you. In one toss anything that´s trash, in another anything you no longer want and in the third one anything that belongs in another room of the house. When you´re done simply toss one out, donate the second and empty the third one placing any objects in their correct rooms.

DAILY RECIPE: Zuchinni Cream Soup

3 tbsp butter

1.5 tbsp flour

2 tbsp chopped onion

4 zuchinni

1 can evaporated milk

3 cups water

croutons

Sauteé flour and onion in butter. Blend zuchinni, evaporated milk and water. Add to flour and onion and mix well. Stir constantly until thick and bubbly. Check for salt and serve with croutons. Great for chilly weather.

TIP OF THE DAY

In a moment of free time, thread a couple of needles with white and black thread. Save in your dresser drawer. Whenever someone loses a button or rips a hem, you´ll be ready to repair.

HALLOWEEN CRAFT: Jack-o-Lantern Noisemakers

2 jello disposable cups
orange paint
black cardboard
craft leaves or green cardboard leaves
1 green pipe-cleaner
glue
assorted beans or rice

Paint the insides of the jello cups with the orange paint. Let dry. Cut out 2 small triangles( eyes), one medium sized triangle (nose) and one mouth from the black cardboard. Turn one jello cup over and glue eyes and nose. Glue the mouth to the other jello cup, only this cup should be right side up. Fill mouth cup with rice and beans and glue other cup on top. Your jack-o-lantern should be almost ready. Glue leaves and twisted green pipe cleaner on top. You´re done!

DAILY RECIPE: Candy Corn Jello

1 box pineapple jello (yellow)
1 box orange jello (orange)
1 tub Cool Whip
Candy corn
Water
See-thru jello cups or parfait cups

Prepare orange jello according to package directions. Fill cups 1/3 full and refrigerate until set. Prepare yellow jello according to package directions and fill 1/3 more. Refrigerate until set. Before serving top the last third of the cup with Cool Whip and sprinkle 2 or 3 candy corn pieces on each dessert. Great for Halloween parties!

TIP OF THE DAY

Keep a roll of Clorox desinfectant wipes under each sink in each bathroom of your house. When you do not have much time, grab one and give sink and toilet a quick brush.