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From: lendube
Date: 08-21-2006, 09:20 PM (1 of 12)
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Okay, this evening I decided to spend a little more time on dinner than usual. Dh loves chicken pot pies and I don't make them very often at all. I don't bake often but I do know the basics. I put things off often because I don't have a good cutting/rolling out board for pastries, and I hate the mess. The largest I have is a wooden one, oval, about 15" long. It's a pain. I had an idea! Why not use my 2' x 2' cutting mat. I have another bigger but this one was just the right size to keep the mess contained. It had just the right amount of texture and cleaned up easily and quickly.  I know some of you are going think I'm nuts but I'm not going to hesitate to use it again. Afterwards I realized that I'd seen cutting boards of similar materials in the kitchen stores. Just thought I'd share the idea. Lennie |
User: lendube
Member since: 08-06-2006 Total posts: 1548 |
From: Magot
Date: 08-21-2006, 09:54 PM (2 of 12)
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I found that my perspex quilting cutting ruler is great for smoothing icing across cakes when my palette knife is too short. Think outside of the box!
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626 
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From: lizzybugsmommy
Date: 08-21-2006, 10:13 PM (3 of 12)
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LOL I used my cutting board as a dust pan the other day. 101 uses for sewing stuff but not sewing. Catherine Catherine
http://www.photoworks.com/share/shareSignin.jsp?shareCode=A0E42A2C202&cp=ems_shr_a lb_pml&cb=PW Husbands gone fishing..... I've gone fabric shopping |
User: lizzybugsmommy
Member since: 05-20-2006 Total posts: 207 |
From: HeyJudee
Date: 08-22-2006, 04:25 PM (4 of 12)
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I used my quilting square to draw a straight line across some boards that I wanted to cut with a jig saw. It worked great and I knew it would be accruate. But...don't use an exacto knife to cut something on your cutting mat!!! It doesn't heal afterwards and it can even cut it in two. Ask me how I know! TTFN from
Judy |
User: HeyJudee
Member since: 01-25-2005 Total posts: 1366 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 08-22-2006, 09:57 PM (5 of 12)
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My husband keeps eyeing my rotary cutter for a pizza cutter. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Magot
Date: 08-23-2006, 04:04 AM (6 of 12)
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knitting needles as hair chopsticks....
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: DorothyL
Date: 08-23-2006, 07:28 AM (7 of 12)
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Or chopsticks as knitting needles. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: Magot
Date: 08-23-2006, 08:00 AM (8 of 12)
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hard to get the tension right as you ned the pointy ones...
love and kisses, Jan
Guts-R-Us Cells a Speciality DNA to order. |
User: Magot
Member since: 12-22-2002 Total posts: 3626
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From: stephi
Date: 08-23-2006, 09:35 AM (9 of 12)
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Hmmm...I dont have nice cutting board, it may be something to look into!! I use my pincusion to keep my cats off the tables. Does that count? I also flip over one of the big plastic drawers and use it as a floor table for cutting patterns out. Side Note: I bought one of those GT express things you see on the telemercials a while back and found the tastiest recipe in thier book. Take a chicken breast and butterfly a pocket into it lengthwise. Take 1/2 cup of stuffing mix with 1/4 cup hot water and a tablespoon of butter and mix. Stuff it in the pocket of the chicken and bake until done. If you wanted you can coat the outside of the chicken with dry stuffing but mine got kinda mushy. It was soooooooo good!! 
Stephi
"No body knows what it is that I do until I dont do it" "if you do what you have always done you will get what you have always gotten" |
User: stephi
Member since: 03-17-2006 Total posts: 361 
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From: DorothyL
Date: 08-23-2006, 11:12 AM (10 of 12)
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Stephi -- I run polish sausage, mushrooms, and a bit of blue cheese dressing through the blender to stuff chicken breasts. It is great. I pile what of the stuffing won't fit on top before I bake them but my husband eats it off his, mine and the leftovers. I haven't done it in a while. I'll have to make some when we get moved. Dorothy |
User: DorothyL
Member since: 12-09-2002 Total posts: 3883 |
From: bridesmom
Date: 08-23-2006, 10:55 PM (11 of 12)
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My MIL gets dowels from the hardware store and has her hubby sharpen the end into a point,sands them down and voila - knitting needles, long ones.
Laura
Tickled pink with my Innovis 4000D |
User: bridesmom
Member since: 01-21-2004 Total posts: 2026 |
From: lendube
Date: 08-24-2006, 12:18 PM (12 of 12)
My dh uses knitting stitch holders for his fishing lures, swivels, etc. 
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User: lendube
Member since: 08-06-2006 Total posts: 1548 |
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