The Home Ec Quiz!

In addition to a large saucepan, you could also purchase a pasta cooker pan, which is specifically designed for cooking foods that need to be boiled. A pasta cooker pan will either have a lid with a strainer on it to help remove the water without losing pasta or an insert so you can just pull out the pasta.

Looking for a quicker way to make an egg omelette? Try using a wok: the metal is thinner and causes it to heat up quicker than a skillet.

If you work out, one of the best things to eat to help your muscles to recover is a banana, which is a fruit loaded with potassium. On top of this, eating a banana is considered two servings of fruit in a daily diet.

Many people in the United States suffer from Vitamin D deficiency, especially during the winter months, because the sun is usually blocked by clouds. Luckily, there are over the counter vitamins, milk fortified with vitamin D, and even light therapy boxes that replicate the sun's light to help those in need of vitamin D.

In addition to clothing, alpaca wool's unique composition can lend itself to other parts of the household. If you toss a couple of balls of alpaca wool into your dryer, it promotes drying: not only does the gentle beating of the garments release moisture, but the wool absorbs it, making the drying time less. Because it's a hollow fiber, it dries relatively quickly.

In order to stitch the upholstery on a piece of furniture back together, the typical upholstery needle will be curved to help create solid stitches because the fabric is usually still on the piece of furniture.

While many consider needlepoint and cross stitch to be the same thing, there are a couple of differences between the two. Instead of using linen or cotton, like cross stitch usually does, needlepoint uses a canvas.

When it comes to pregnancy, oppossoms get off pretty light: one of their pregnancies lasts 12 or 13 days. On the other side of the coin, an elephant has the longest gestation period: a typical elephant will carry her calf for almost two years!

In addition to the ultrasound, one of the newer methods of gender identification is through the use of a blood test. Cell-free DNA tests can test the baby's shed cells from the mother's bloodstream. This can reveal the gender in as early as seven weeks.

Because people have different hand sizes, thimbles come in an array of different sizes. Thimble manufacturers recommend that seamstresses keep two different sized thimbles to accommodate fingers during seasonal changes.

If you're starting to feel a bit run down, take a drink of orange juice. Oranges and other citrus fruits are full of vitamin C.

When it comes to making a turducken, you may not realize how much time you're going to need. First you need to debone all three birds, set the meat in a brine overnight, then assemble the meat. This, coupled with a four-hour cooking time, can make it an all-day event.

In order to get a stellar meringue to top your pies, you should be sure to add some cream of tartar to help the foam stabilize and some sugar to sweeten it. When baking, only the tops of the meringue's ridges should be browned.

Be careful when watching your debits. If you expend too much, you'll end up overdrawn and getting hit with penalty fees!

Depending on where you work, there is one day for which everyone should be grateful: pay day! Whenever you get paid from an employer or other source, that money will show up as a credit in your account.

Whenever you are dealing with a dispute, it is always useful to have your transaction history available. When you do that, both you and the company with which you're negotiating will be on the same page.

A good prenatal vitamin will have folic acid, which helps prevent neural tube defects, iron, which helps carry oxygen to the bloodstreams, and calcium, which helps the mother maintain her bone density as the baby grows.

When it comes to taking a cooler shower when you are ill, aside from washing off the sweat and grime associated with your sickness, the cool water's evaporation helps cool the skin, which, in turn, could help lower your temperature.

In addition to handling chicken, your hands should be washed after cooking with eggs as well as handling pet reptiles and birds. Why? Salmonella is also associated with these animals.

Wonder why peek-a-boo is such a hit with babies? Because if they don't have their object permanence skill, babies won't realize you're hiding behind something, so seeing you reappear is like starting the entire game all over again!

Skills using the hands and fingers are considered fine motor skills. These skill continue to develop until the child is about eight years of age.

Unlike the fine motor skill set, gross motor skills take six years for a child to develop. Other skills in the gross motor skill set are sprinting, walking on a balance beam, and pedaling a bicycle.

One way to keep your kitchen clean while dredging your ingredients is to put the dry ingredients in a plastic bag. This way, not only will you not have to worry about extra cleanup, but you also can get a better distribution of breading on your meats or veggies.

In addition to cutting an ingredient into cubes, dicing can also mean to chop it into smaller pieces. Dicing can vary in size, ranging from a small chop to a fine mince.

When it comes to pitted fruits, ingredients are usually halved in order to remove the pits. Avacados, peaches, and cherries are examples of pitted fruits.

When it comes to mincing, the smaller the chop the better. Many times, when an ingredient is minced, it is to be used to accent either the sides or main course of a meal.

In addition to sore throats, honey has been used in burn wards to help healing. Honey helps sterilize the wound as well as bolster wound repair.

When it comes to melting chocolate, if you were to attempt to melt it directly, the texture would be affected. So by using a double boiler, it heats the chocolate by using the steam produced in the bottom chamber.

In addition to helping with sleep, chamomile tea also helps alleviate menstrual cramping as well as reducing inflammation.

When it comes to removing bubble gum from hair, you should also make sure that the peanut butter you're planning to use is creamy. If you don't have peanut butter in the house, you can get the same result from any vegetable oil.

It encouraged that a deep clean be done on your toilets once a week. However, in the ​case of illness, it may need to be a little more often. If you have extra soda in the house, dumping it into the toilet bowl can help remove water rings.

When it comes to nausea, saltines will help to combat nausea. The baking soda in the crackers will help to neutralize the excess stomach acids.

When it comes to cleaning, one of the most important things you can have in your arsenal is a bottle or two of white vinegar. In addition to its smell, vinegar can kill bacteria, making it a biodegradable cleaner.

While using a fabric softener with clothing and linens will help the clothing stay soft and eliminate static cling, when it comes to towels and washcloths, they should be dried without it. Why? When fabric softener is used, it coats clothing with a chemical that eliminates the charge that comes from static electricity and with towels, it makes them less absorbent.

When it comes to lingerie, you don't want to mess around. By placing the items in a lingerie bag, they still get clean and there's no danger of clasps, hooks, or other parts getting caught on other pieces of clothing in the load.