1. Chicken. I don't like raw chicken. Especially cutting up raw chicken. It's so slimy and soft and hard to cut. So, I take a chicken breast out of the freezer, and let it sit for a couple hours. When it's starting to get a little soft on the outside, I take a knife and cut it up. My hands freeze, but the chicken is ten times easier to cut into the shape you want it, and it's not so slimy and icky.
2. Cooking chicken. A lot of the things I make use chicken that's cooked before putting everything together. So I like to fill my crock pot with chicken and then cook it all day. The chicken is nice and soft, and in one easy step, I just cooked enough chicken for at least 5 different meals. I put the chicken into containers and freeze it, and then I can just take it out and use it when needed. I use the cooked chicken in chicken enchiladas, Hawaiian haystacks, chicken pot pie, baked chicken sandwiches, chicken soup and broccoli, chicken rice casserole, to name a few.
3. Ripening pears. I love pears, but the ones from the store are always hard and not ripe. And I never had luck getting them to ripen until I found out this little trick. When you get the pears home, take them out of the plastic bag and put them in a paper bag. Fold the top of the paper bag down, and put them in a corner. Leave them for a few days, but don't forget them! They'll be nice and ripe in just a couple days. This works with green tomatoes too when it's too cold for them to ripen on the vine.
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