3 Easy Ways To Enhance A Frozen Entree

PLUS: Save your sanity with homemade flypaper, my new favorite zucchini bread recipe, and more. PLUS: Save your sanity with homemade flypaper, my new favorite zucchini bread recipe, and more. August 25, 2022 [View Online]( Good morning! When things get busy, microwaving a frozen entree can be the difference between getting a hot meal and trying to fill up on granola bars. The 3 tips in Today’s Good Thing make it easy to elevate frozen entrees into meals that will not only satisfy your hunger, but please your palette too. And if you’re up to your eyes in zucchini like our photographer Kaitlyn, follow her lead and make the zucchini bread recipe in Jillee’s Pick. As a recipient of said zucchini bread, I fully agree that the recipe is a keeper! Jillee TODAY'S GOOD THING 3 Easy Ways To Enhance A Frozen Entree [Photos of a frozen entree being served in lettuce cups and topped with avocado and other fresh ingredients.]( Use these tips to transform a potentially underwhelming entree into a marvelous meal. As much as I enjoy cooking, sometimes I get so busy that the only way I’m getting a hot meal is by dipping into the stash of frozen entrees I keep on hand. But you know me—I can’t leave well enough alone, and my compulsion to make things better extends even to those frozen entrees. Adding something fresh, whether it’s herbs or produce, can go a long way toward making any meal more enticing, and that goes double for frozen entrees. They can be a tad mediocre if you simply warm them up and dig in, but adding a little pizazz or trying a different approach can make the meal a lot more enjoyable. Today I’m sharing a few ideas you can apply to frozen entrees, meals, and snacks to take them from “meh” to “marvelous!” Just follow the link below to learn my 3 most dependable approaches to dressing up frozen foods to not only make them more delicious, but to make them more appetizing in every way! [3 Easy Ways To Enhance A Frozen Entree ➜]( Related • [The Best Foods From The Freezer Aisle + A Quick Pasta Salad]( • [How To Make The Ultimate Freezer Meal – Lemon Garlic Dump Chicken]( ⚡️QUICK TIPS⚡️ • Use this simple t-shirt tip to skip the starchy phase and make a new t-shirt feel vintage-soft and perfectly worn. [Read more ➜]( • You know that baking soda and baking powder are different, but the specifics of how they differ are worth understanding. [Read more ➜]( • From the corners of cabinets to underneath your appliances, these 7 tricks make it easier to clean tricky spaces. [Read more ➜]( WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT? Make An Egg Carton Ring Holder [Photos of egg carton ring holders.]( This simple DIY ring holder will keep your ring safe overnight or while you wash dishes. I’ve had a few scares over the years where I thought I lost my wedding ring, none of which were very fun. So to give myself a safe place to put my ring when I take it off to sleep, shower, or wash dishes, I made a few simple ring holders using an empty egg carton. It’s really easy to do—just cut one of the raised sections away from the rest of the carton. You can slip your ring over the raised part and use it as is, or you can dress it up with some craft paint or other decorative touches. Put one in every place you usually remove your ring and you’ll have an easier time of keeping track of it! SWAP THAT 🔄 FOR THIS Stick It To Flies (And Spending Money On Flypaper) [Left: Homemade flypaper strips being dipped in a sugary liquid. Right: A finished flypaper strip hanging from a cupboard door.]( You don’t need to spend money on flypaper—it's easy to make your own at home! Fruit flies have a taste for overly ripe fruit and other sugary substances. And when warmer temperatures are causing fruit to ripen more quickly than usual, fruit flies can be especially abundant. If you're currently fighting a losing battle against fruit flies (or house flies, or any kind of fly for that matter), you don't have to spend money on flypaper to deal with them. Tackle your pest problem for free by making your own DIY flypaper instead! Here's how to do it: Cut a paper bag into strips that are 2-3 inches wide, then use a hole punch to make a hole at one end of each strip. Thread a piece of string through the hole and tie the ends of the string together to form a loop. Next, add 1/4 cup of sugar, 1/4 cup of honey, and 2 tablespoons of water to a small saucepan and place over low heat until the sugar dissolves. Drag each paper strip through the sticky liquid to coat both sides, then hang the strips up to cool off with a towel underneath to catch any drips. Once the strips have stopped dripping, you can hang them up wherever you've spotted flies hanging around. Bye-bye, flies! [See the full tutorial ➜]( JILLEE'S PICK Zucchini Bread [Photo of zucchini bread.]( I know what you’re thinking—”Jillee, another recipe from Mel’s Kitchen Cafe?” And the answer is yes, because [Mel’s recipe for zucchini bread]( is another winner. But the credit for this particular discovery goes to Kaitlyn! As they often do in late summer, Kaitlyn's zucchini plants are churning out squash non-stop. Making zucchini bread is a time-honored tradition for those inundated with zucchini, so Kaitlyn went hunting online for a good recipe and decided to try the one she saw on Mel’s Kitchen Cafe. She doubled the recipe and gave one of the loaves to me, and it was gone in the blink of an eye! It was everything I love about zucchini bread—moist, cake-like, and with the perfect amount of baking spices. A warm, buttered slice of this bread is my idea of a perfect breakfast (or midday snack, or midnight snack… you get the idea!) If you’ve got your own bumper crop of zucchini to put to good use (or a generous neighbor with a green thumb), give [this recipe]( a try—you won’t be disappointed! YOUR ONE GOOD THING Use Salt To Prevent Oil Splatters Christy from Suffolk, Virginia has a great cooking tip: "I learned a really good cooking tip a long time ago: sprinkle salt on oil before turning the heat on and there will be no splatters." Thanks for sharing, Christy! This is a tip I’d never heard before, so I thought I’d do some digging to figure out how it works (if only for my own edification!) The presence of water in food is what causes hot oil to pop and splatter. Adding salt to the oil can help limit splattering because it will absorb some of the water, leaving less floating around in the pan to vaporize and splatter once the oil gets hot. One thing worth considering with this tip is that while adding salt can help limit splatters, it will also reduce the smoke point of your oil. It may not be a problem if you’re using an oil with a high smoke point (like canola or sunflower), but olive oil and other low smoke point oils could smoke and develop a burnt taste if you add salt to them. Have a great tip or trick of your own? [Share YOUR “one good thing” here]( for a chance to see it featured in a future newsletter! A FEW MORE THINGS... 🍌 Lickety Split: Today is National Banana Split Day, celebrating the dessert that combines ice cream, bananas, fudge, and whipped cream (with a cherry on top, whether you want it or not!) 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