Cleaning – Reader Mailbag As we have been getting a few great tips from readers I have occasionally been posting a “Reader Mailbag”.  Well just this past week I received a great tip  from Annette in Connecticut that I want to share with you. Annette writes that she has stumbled upon a great tip for using vinegar while cleaning. All you need to do is put your lemon, orange, grapefruit...

No matter how good or bad of a cook you are there is one thing that you cannot avoid… greasy dish cleanup.  Admit it, we all have them.  In the past my fix was always to save the gross dishes to the end, wash them as good as I could get them, drain all the water and then refill the sinks and wash them again.  Then hopefully they were good enough to run through the dishwasher if it was empty...

I hate purchasing dishwasher detergent about as much as I hate purchasing laundry detergent.  It is every bit as expensive and you have those empty bottles to throw into the landfill.  So what did I do?  I found a method for homemade dishwasher detergent. Dishwasher soap is easy to make, and cost effective. I mix up a batch in an empty canister, and pour it in the dishwasher as needed. Mix and...