Shameless Shortcuts

1,027 tips and techniques that help you save time, save money, and save work every day!

Millions of people love their gardens but wish they weren't quite so demanding. Imagine growing simple fruit and vegetables quickly, equipping yourself with a list of the best plants to buy for your garden in every situation, and losing fewer plants to pests and diseases. Gardening Shortcuts can show you how. Packed with effective techniques, sparkling ideas, and shameless shortcuts for every corner of the garden, Gardening Shortcuts contains all the advice needed to create the garden you want and still have time to sit on the patio with a glass of wine.

Your guests are arriving in a half hour, and your dinner has taken a turn for the worse. The lettuce has wilted, the gravy's lumpy, and the pie crust has burned! Time for takeout? Not if you have Joey Green's Last-Minute Kitchen Secrets. This book contains more than a hundred helpful hacks to avoid and salvage cooking disasters, store and prepare ingredients, keep appliances running smoothly, and clean cookware. These simple, ingenious tips may sound quirky at first, but they really do work. The book also includes food-based folk remedies, sidebars with fascinating kitchen trivia, and unconventional recipes. Dishwasher salmon anyone?

The practical, yet ingenious advice jam-packed in this guidebook includes fast and handy tips for household problems that are faced daily, from how to keep fingernails clean while gardening to the perfect use for old socks.

Spice-packed, punchy, and fresh Indian-inspired dishes to get on the table in 30 minutes or less from the creator of Mowgli Indian restaurants These punchy and delicious Indian-style recipes will take you from couch to curry in 30 minutes or less. These recipes are big in flavor but also light, healthy and made from accessible ingredients, often just using what's already in your cupboard or fridge. Tantalize your tastebuds with such recipes as “Quick Angry Tandoori,” “Yogurt Coriander Turkey”, “Back of the Fridge Curry” or “Million Dollar Green Dahl.” For super usability, the chapters are themed around ingredients: • Poultry • Meat • Fish • Vegetables • Desserts • "Ma, Look Away!" (for Nisha's favorite pasta dishes) The recipes range from light lunches to substantial dinners and are all tasty and nutritious meals to whip up without fuss.

From the guru of brand-new uses for brand-name products come ideas and tips for culinary fun, cleaning shortcuts, and kitchen cabinet remedies Joey Green has fascinated readers for more than a decade with his quirky and innovative tips to make domestic engineering a lot more fun. Now fans will be completely intrigued and entertained by Joey's kitchen--and pantry-focused ideas, like using Canada Dry Club Soda to buff stainless steel appliances and flexible fabric Band-Aids as labels for frozen foods. Filled with time- and money-saving ideas, Joey Green's Kitchen Magic offers clever ways to make household items do double duty, like using ReaLemon for revitalizing wilted asparagus, L'eggs Panty Hose (clean, of course) for removing corn silk, and Oral-B Dental Floss for slicing layer cake. He shares unusual ideas for kitchen troubles, like stirring in Jif Peanut Butter to save burnt gravy and using Efferdent to clean the coffeepot. Joey even tosses in home remedies from the kitchen (soothe a blister with Carnation Nonfat Dry Milk) and simple recipes (try Slow-Cooker Brisket with a Coca-Cola marinade). Whether it's a quick fix (Eggo Waffles for hot dog buns, anyone?) or an emergency substitution (Bounty Paper Towel for a coffee filter), there are loads of useful and entertaining tips for making the most of brand-name purchases.

Finally, holding onto your zen doesn't have to end when you shut the bathroom door. Behindfulness For Beginners hilariously presents the first-ever mindfulness journal specifically designed for those all-important, but often ignored, five-, ten-, eh maybe, fifteen-minute silent sitting sessions that we all do each and every day (serenity willing). So drop trousers, take your seat, and prepare to enter a world of peace, relaxation, positive reflection, and fascinating facts about this sacred act.

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Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.

Popular Mechanics inspires, instructs and influences readers to help them master the modern world. Whether it’s practical DIY home-improvement tips, gadgets and digital technology, information on the newest cars or the latest breakthroughs in science -- PM is the ultimate guide to our high-tech lifestyle.