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Quick Tip: Setting a Timer

Quick Tip Setting a Timer

List a handful of tasks you just hate to do — those things that you really can’t even bring yourself to start.  Of course, the problem you run into is that those things never get done.  Then they turn into larger, even less appealing tasks.  It’s a vicious cycle.

The secret to tackling one of these tasks is just starting.  If you can’t commit to finishing your chore, commit to focusing on it for even just a brief period of time. [Read more…]

Quick Tip: Shrinking Your To-Do List

Quick Tip Shrinking Your To-Do List

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Floating around in your head, scrawled on a scrap of paper, meticulously documented in a spreadsheet, or penned in a planner is a list of things you need to do this week.  It’s not a short list.  There’s a significant chance that’s it’s an unachievable list — a list that you can not complete in its entirety this week.  Have you inadvertently set yourself up for failure?  That’s no way to start your week.

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Quick Tip: Having Cubed Bread Ready to Go

bread freezer bag

Now that you’ve got a homemade croutons addiction, you may be looking for a way to streamline the preparation process.  An excellent way to increase your efficiency in the kitchen here is to cube a big batch of bread, toss the cubes into a freezer bag, and store the bag in the freezer.  Then, when you’re ready to make croutons, just grab the quantity of bread cubes you need from the freezer. [Read more…]

Quick Tip: Slicing a Loaf of Bread

A bread knife is a great tool in the kitchen, but it’s caused some major loaf carnage in my kitchen.  Sometimes the pressure required to slice homemade or bakery bread — especially when it’s toasty warm — can flatten a previously lovely loaf.  Sometimes, wrangling the knife can make it extremely challenging to get even slices of the right thickness and a smooth cut.  Even under the best circumstances though, I wind up with piles of crumbs on my counter . . . wasted bread! [Read more…]