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When I buy a rotisserie chicken, I never know how to carve it for serving. Can you help? Wolf Point, Mont. Carving a rotisserie chicken is just like carving a turkey, only smaller. Use a sharp knife, and hold the chicken in place with a meat fork while you cut. Place the chicken, breast up, with its legs to the right if you’re right handed, to the left if you’re a lefty. Now you’re ready to carve. • While gently pulling the leg and thigh away from the body, cut through the joint between the thigh and body. Separate the thigh and drumstick by cut-ting down through the connecting joint. • Make a deep horizontal cut into the breast just above the wing, and in-sert the fork into the breast. • Starting halfway up the breast, carve thin slices down to the horizontal cut, working from the outer edge of the bird to the center. Betty Crocker Want more ideas? www.BettyCrocker.com
Timely Tips
MONEY SAVER - Why spend money to heat water while you’re at work, sleeping or on vacation? Get a water heater timer at your local hardware store (costs around $20), and program it so it only runs during the times you’re at home and awake. You’ll slash quite a bit off your utility bills yearly. * * * BALANCING ACT - When doing laundry, don’t wrap towels or sheets around the agitator. If they get tangled, they won’t wash properly and will put stress on gears of the machine. Place them on one side of the tub instead. Spread them around with other articles so your tub won’t be off balance. * * * A CLEAN SHAKE - Wash small delicate items of clothing by placing them in a big jar of warm water, mild soapy water, then gently shake. Rinse them the same way in clear water. * * * MICROWAVE OVEN CLEANING - Place damp paper towels in your microwave and turn it on high for 10 seconds. This makes your mi-crowave easy to clean. * * * PLAY TIME - Save plastic lids from containers such as detergent, instant coffee, etc. (ones large enough not to be a choking hazard). They can be used as a variety of toys - stacking, teaching colors, counting,etc. * * * BOREDOM BUSTER - Some child-ren these days seem to have a lot of toys, some of which never see the light of day. To keep children interested and to get the best out of their toys, divide them into two different toy boxes and rotate them every two or three weeks. This way, they won’t get bored. * * * PAINT TRICKS - Turn a small space into a larger one by using different shades of the same color. For exam-ple, paint opposite walls a shade lighter or darker than the adjacent walls to give the room a sense of depth. * * * A SPLASH OF COLOR - When painting over a dark wall, be sure to tint your primer with a color a few shades lighter than your new topcoat color. This will help ensure a perfect finish and ultimately help you save money because you’ll need less topcoat to take your walls from one color to the next. * * * DON’T PASS ON THE PRIMER - Most primers dry in an hour, but their benefits last for years. Starting your painting project with primed wall will require few coats of topcoat paint - and will ensure your topcoat color matches your paint chip. * * * THIN IS NOT IN - Thinning your paint is not a good way to make a little go a long way. Thinning actually re-quires you to use more coats because thin paint doesn’t provide solid coverage. * * * Share your special Timely Tip with our readers. Send it to Kate c/o DBR Media, Inc., P.O. Box 21, Hopewell Jct., NY 12533, or e-mail:deckert@dbrmedia.com
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