Tabasco-like Recipe

I thought for Sure I had already posted this recipe here, but I bought peppers today, and came looking for the recipe to make tabasco-like sauce, and it wasn't here! So here it is....because I need it where I can find it. :) Tabasco-like sauce, second recipe

Homemade Tabasco Style Sauce Because the chiles are not aged in oak barrels for three years, this will be only a rough approximation of the famous McIlhenny product. You will have to grow your own tabascos or substitute dried ones that have been rehydrated. Other hot, fresh red chile peppers can be substituted for the tabascos. Ingredients: 1 pound fresh red tabasco peppers, chopped 2 cups distilled white vinegar 2 teaspoons salt Directions: Combine the chiles and the vinegar in a saucepan and heat. Stir in the salt and simmer for 5 minutes. Remove from the heat, cool, and place in a blender. Puree until smooth and place in a glass jar. Allow to steep for 2 weeks in the refrigerator. Remove, strain the sauce, and adjust the consistency by adding more vinegar if necessary.

Link to Homemade Cleaners!

Home made cleaners 

and

this idea  , which I LOVE!  (I hope pinterest links will come up on a blog.  We'll see.)

Dry Milk Powder

It seems like my milk packages always tell only how to reconstitute huge amounts at a time, like how to make a gallon of milk.  Since I usually use my dry milk to cook with when I'm out of regular milk, I Never need to make an entire gallon. 

I found this handy little chart online - Yay!  I'll never have to guess (wrongly, generally) again how much powder to add to my water! :)

http://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/reconstituting.htmhttp://www.hillbillyhousewife.com/reconstituting.htm

Decluttering, Part 2

Regarding the decluttering links I posted before - this blog post.....

I worked 4 hours last evening finishing off the last of the first week of January's list.

My kitchen has never looked better! It's so amazing....

Decluttering!

Two resources I'm using this year, in an attempt to be more organized:

http://www.home-storage-solutions-101.com/organized-home.html

http://www.mysimplerlife.com/decluttercalendar.htm