Monday, April 7, 2014

AHA!


Don't you just love it when someone shows you multiple uses for things you have always used just one way?  After I finish smacking myself for not thinking of at least some of them I feel like I have gotten a gift.  That is what happened this month with our sponsor, Reynolds Kitchens®.

They are not all about aluminum foil anymore, they make all sorts of nifty time savers for the kitchen, from waxed paper to crockpot liners.  But the one that impressed me the most and gave me an AHA! moment is their baking parchment, which I already used as a pan liner for baking.  If you visit their site www.reynoldskitchens.com you will learn some timesaving tricks too.

But the one that will be used most often in my kitchen is the new parchment sheets.  They are the size of a full sheet pan and lay flat immediately.  I no longer will flour my counter and have a mess to clean up.  Just open a sheet and roll pie crusts, knead bread or biscuits, even roll meatballs.  But my AHA! came when I realized that with a sheet of parchment and a few staples, I had made a custom size bread bag, perfect for transporting or keeping homemade bread.  No condensation forms like in plastic bags but the bread is protected from drying out.  Perfect!  My smaller aha! came when I removed the loaf of rye from the oven and realized the bottom crust was as crisp as the top without returning it to the oven, it had been baked on a parchment lined pan.  This will change my bread baking for sure.


There was fun there too.  We made great sugar cookies.  http://allrecipes.com/recipe/karens-rolled-sugar-cookies/detail.aspx
  

And an amazing snack mix


    


So, hustle on down to the store and avail yourself of this great time saver!



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