Handy Tip #1

This is an old tip that I've liked since before I moved away from home.


Sometimes after you run left-overs down the garbage disposal, it leaves an unpleasant odor.
Solution? Save your orange peels, and run them down the disposal after you've completely run/washed the odor-causing food down the drain. When the orange peels are ground up, they release their delicious citrus scent, which often covers up the bad smell all together.
It's also a great way to just give your kitchen a pick-me-up before the husband gets home, or you have guests over.
(This is possibly a myth, but I've heard that lemon-scent motivates people to be more sociable. Maybe orange scent could do the same, who knows! ;) Psychology experiments of a housewife.)

(An additional tip: I would use the orange peels sooner rather than later; if you save them for too long, they get dried out and hard.)






Photo source: http://myfrenchkitchen.wordpress.com/2010/02/18/crystallized-orange-strips-and-mothers-and-daughters/