Household Hints - Cooking - Make a More Flavorful Roast Chicken

To up the flavor of your roast chickens, try stuffing the cavity of the bird with whole heads of peeled garlic, large chunks of peeled onion, whole bunches of fresh herbs or even wedges of lemon. The flavors will make your roasted chicken taste delicious - plus the veggies or wedges of lemon will create a moister chicken as well. :) Enjoy!

Household Hints - Making Sauces/Cooking - Cooling a Sauce Quickly

If you need to cool a sauce or pudding quickly, try this trick: Just put the pan into a shallow baking pan that has been partially filled with cool water. You may need to change the water with cooler water again, as the hot pan will warm the water.

This will cool your sauces/puddings or custards quickly and easily, so they'll be ready to serve faster!

Household and Baking Hints - How to Make Softer Cookies

If you want cookies like sugar cookies or peanut butter cookies to stay soft when they cool, bake them with a loaf pan with about 2 inches of water in it also in the oven (don’t let the pan touch the heating element). After the cookies cool, store them in an airtight container.

**Thanks to Carolyn for sending in this hint!**