Household Tips & Tricks Archives - Comfortably Domestic

How to Organize the Pantry in 5 Easy Steps

Kirsten — Wed, 19 Apr 2017 21:20:04 +0000

How to Organize the Pantry in Five Easy Steps is surefire way to get those cupboards clean and organized and keep them that way! Thank you OXO for sponsoring this post as part of their Spring Cleaning & Organizing with OXO campaign. As always, all opinions are always 100% my own. Thank you for supporting brands I love and...

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Make Pies to Freeze and Bake Later – An Easy How To Guide

Kirsten — Fri, 18 Nov 2016 11:51:36 +0000

Make pies to freeze and bake later. Making holiday pies has never been easier with this make ahead method to freeze pies and bake them later! Working ahead can be done with delicious results! Make Ahead Makes Life Easier When it comes to cooking a large meal, I’m all about doing as much work ahead of time...

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Let Me Do the Math! {Food Dork Fridays}: US to Metric Conversion Charts

Kirsten — Sat, 08 Jun 2013 14:36:24 +0000

Some of the most common questions that I get from my International Friends is for recipe measurement equivalents so that they can recreate my US recipes with their metric measures. I totally understand why y’all would ask me for the the metric equivalents–converting recipes requires a whole lot of calculations before you ever bust out...

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Homemade Baking Lube {DIY Pantry Products}

Kirsten — Mon, 06 May 2013 12:01:09 +0000

Baking lube is a quick method of releasing baked goods from pans. Unlike chemical aerosol sprays, this DIY baking lube is made with all natural ingredients. Next to really great flours and other quality ingredients, not much is more important in a baker’s kitchen than an effective baking lube. Also known as cake release, pan release, baking...

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Getting Organized & Cozi at the Same Time

Kirsten — Wed, 02 May 2012 11:31:55 +0000

Reining in the schedules of six people can be a challenge. Add to that regular household maintenance appointments, to-do lists, grocery lists, idea lists–suffice it to say that it can be downright exhausting trying to desperately keep it all organized. You know…because just wrangling four children isn’t exhausting enough. Thankfully, my friend Anne wrote about...

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How to Safely Store Food for the Long Haul and (Hopefully) Avoid Spoilage

Kirsten — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 12:43:46 +0000

A few weeks ago, my PacNorthwest friend Beth, asked if I had any suggestions for long term food storage. Her reasons for wanting to store food for an extended period of time are quite valid: food fresh from the farm and/or in purchased in bulk is often more economical than sourcing ingredients in smaller quantities...

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Great Girly Gifts: DIY Spa

Kirsten — Fri, 06 May 2011 19:15:34 +0000

Being that my Spa Day this week consisted of me attending an appointment all by myself, quickly chased by caring for sick kiddos, I started to daydream about ways to bring the Spa to me. While I would love for Jenelle to come over and give me a massage, or have Becky come for a...

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Laundry Helpers

Kirsten — Mon, 25 Apr 2011 10:30:12 +0000

(Photo Credit) Before we had children, Hubby & I had two beautiful Great Danes, and also volunteered with a great organization called Great Dane Rescue, Inc. We would evaluate incoming Danes, coordinate adoptions, etc. The foster Danes rarely came into Rescue clean, or fully potty trained. I did a lot of laundry in my GD Rescue...

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Make Your Pantry: Chicken and Vegetable Stocks

Kirsten — Tue, 12 Apr 2011 20:38:12 +0000

Feeding a family of six, with four of them being seemingly insatiable growing boys, our food budget can get out of control in a heartbeat. The budget is further stretched by the fact that I prefer to buy mainly local, organic, and whole foods. Food is our largest monthly expense, right after the mortgage. That’s...

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Menu Planning 101: The Key To My Sanity

Kirsten — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 03:06:51 +0000

Meal Planning doesn’t have to be a stressful proposition with these nine easy steps. As often as the seasons change, a new season begets a whole new set of circumstances. Circumstances involving three of four sons participating in seemingly five different sports. Circumstances involving Bacon Slayer and I coaching different teams in different seasons–all of which seems...

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