homemade cleaner recpie: wood polish

I quit using my usual Plege to polish my tables because I wanted to find a safer alternative. I tried the Method brand of wood cleaner, but it is super expensive. So, I found a recipe off of the website I have previously shared, sideroad.com, and made my own (hint: the blog title is a link, and I am currently making all my blog titles links if there is a website involved ;) It works great!

And it is:
1 cup vegetable oil or olive oil
1/2 cup lemon juice

Pour into a spray bottle and shake, shake, shake- It's done!

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homemade cleaner recipes

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hot chocolate

Stovetop:
1/2 cup sugar
1/4 cup HERSHEY'S Cocoa
Dash salt
1/3 cup hot water
4 cups (1 qt.) milk
3/4 teaspoon vanilla extract

Stir together sugar, cocoa and salt in pot; stir in water. Cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until mixture comes to a boil. Boil and stir 2 minutes. Add milk; stirring constantly, heat to serving temperature. Do Not Boil.

Remove from heat; add vanilla. Beat with rotary beater or whisk until foamy. Serve with marshmallows or whipped cream.

VARIATIONS: Add one of the following with the vanilla extract:
SPICED COCOA: 1/8 teaspoon ground cinnamon and 1/8 teaspoon ground nutmeg. Serve with cinnamon stick, if desired.
MINT COCOA: 1/2 teaspoon mint extract OR 3 tablespoons crushed hard peppermint candy OR 2 to 3 tablespoons white creme de menthe. Serve with peppermint candy stick, if desired.
CITRUS COCOA: 1/2 teaspoon orange extract OR 2 to 3 tablespoons orange liqueur.
SWISS MOCHA: 2 to 2-1/2 teaspoons powdered instant coffee.
COCOA AU LAIT: Omit marshmallows or whipped cream. Spoon 2 tablespoons softened vanilla ice cream on top of each cup of cocoa at serving time.
SLIM-TRIM COCOA: Omit sugar. Combine cocoa, salt and water; substitute nonfat milk. Proceed as above. With vanilla, stir in sugar substitute with sweetening equivalence of 1/2 cup sugar.
CANADIAN COCOA: 1/2 teaspoon maple extract.
(from www.hersheys.com)


Dry Mix:
4 cups dry milk
1 cup unsweetened cocoa
2 cups sugar
1/2 teaspoon salt

Mix the ingredients and put them into an airtight container.
(from CDKitchen.com)

dang quesadillas

(Think glorified grilled cheese)

Tortilla wraps
Butter
Salt
Cheddar cheese
Whatever you want to put in them! Diced onions, peppers,.. anything!

Spread butter on one side of tortilla. Salt buttered side. Place on electric griddle butter side down. Sprinkle with cheese and fillin's. Butter one side of another tortilla. Salt buttered side. Place on top of the fillin's with butter side out. Flip when golden brown. Cook other side until golden brown. Cut and dip in salsa and sour cream!

white bean chicken chili

3-4 chicken breasts
4cups chicken broth
2 yellow peppers
1 onion
1 jar of green salsa
1 can green chilies
2 cans of great white northern beans
1 lime-juiced (or 2 tbs lime juice concentrate)
1/4tsp groud cloves
1tbs garlic powder
2tsp cumin
2tsp cayan pepper
1cup chopped tortilla chips
1 bottle of corona
additional tortilla chips
mozarella cheese

Crockpot chicken for 6 hrs on high. Once chicken is cooked (about three hours later), add all other ingredients. Let cook for another 2 or three hours. Serve with tortilla chips and mozzarella cheese! There's dinner for a few nights! yummers!