40 Creative Food Hacks That Will Change The Way You Cook

1. Adult Alcoholic Ice Candy


2. How to make the perfect, creamiest mashed potatoes.



3. Tailgating Hacks


4. The Walking Taco



5. Wet Your Fingers Before Removing Egg Shells


6. Easy Pancake Art!




7. Quick and Easy Cheese Sticks


8. Use a Waffle Iron for Hashbrowns.


9. The Correct Way to Open a Kiss


10. Cheese Bread Hack


11. How to Tell if an Avocado is Ripe


12. Pastry Folding Hacks


13. It’s not pretty, but a panini maker can be used for omelets.


14. The Best Way to Cook a Hot Dog Perfectly


15. Pancake Pops


16. Ridiculous…but technically a food hack. ridiculous


17. Milk and Cookie Ice Cubes


18. Use Your Crockpot for French Toast


19. Salads in a Jar


20. Different teas mean different times and temperatures.

21. The Perfect BLT, Every Time.


22. Vegetable Hacks


23. Use Cookie Cutters for Creative Pancakes.



24. The Same Can Be Done with Eggs



25. How to determine if eggs are fresh.


26. Easy Pizza Bread.



27. How to Pair Wine and Food


28. How to Properly Eat a Cupcake


29. No time to boil water? Use your Keurig.



30. Empty ketchup bottles are great for pancake mix.


31. Dental Floss is Amazing for Cutting Soft Foods


32. The Perfect Egg Burger

33. Blow into a bag and seal it tightly. The CO2 will keep it from becoming soggy.


34. Sprinkle Decorations.


35. The Perfect Drink for the Occasion.


36. An Easy Way to Store Asparagus for Up to 2 Weeks


37. Cream Bottles Make Excellent Snack Dispensers.


38. Ziplock Bags Will Keep Ice Cream Soft


39. A Pair of Sturdy Tongs Will Help You Get All the Juice Out of a Lemon


40. Save the time and hassle of having to wash your hands every time.

The 7 Dangerous Acts after meal

1.Don't smoke- Experiment from experts proves that smoking a cigarette after meal is comparable to smoking 10 cigarettes (chances of cancer is higher).


2. Don't eat fruits immediately - Immediately eating fruits after meals will cause stomach to be bloated with air. Therefore take fruit 1-2 hr after meal or 1hr before meal.


3. Don't drink tea - Because tea leaves contain a high content of acid. This substance will cause the Protein content in the food we consume to be hardened thus difficult to digest.


4. Don't loosen your belt - Loosening the belt after a meal will easily cause the intestine to be twisted & blocked.


5. Don't bathe - Bathing after meal will cause the increase of blood flow to the hands, legs & body thus the amount of blood around the stomach will therefore decrease. This will weaken the digestive system in our stomach.


6. Don't walk about - People always say that after a meal walk a hundred steps and you will live till 99. In actual fact this is not true. Walking will cause the digestive system to be unable to absorb the nutrition from the food we intake.


7. Don't sleep immediately - The food we intake will not be able to digest properly. Thus will lead to gastric & infection in our intestine.

Procession of the Black Nazarene

The largest procession

The procession of the Black Nazarene is the largest procession in the country. It takes place on January the 9th and on Good Friday through the streets of Quiapo, a small part of metro Manila.The procession dates from the 17th century. Thousands of men parade through the streets with the life-sized, black wooden statue

of Jesus (of Nazarene).

  A miracle after touching the statue?

During the feast of the Black Nazarene thousands of barefoot men join the annual procession. Walking barefoot during the procession is seen as a sign of humility. During this procession the men yell "Viva Señor".
Everybody who is in the neighbourhood of the cross tries to touch the statue. People believe that a miracle can happen after touching it.
The statue was bought by a priest in Mexico and brought to Manila in 1606.

A black Christ ?

The Black Nazarene is a more than 200-year-old statue.Black? One tale is telling that during the Spanish colonial period missionaries brought an icon to Manila. During the trip however, there was a fire on board and the icon, the Nazarene, caught fire. Despite its charred condition, the Nazarene was kept save and honored from then on.

The statue is to be seen in the Saint John the Baptist Church in Quiapo in Manila, where it has been housed since 1787.

Feast of the Black Nazarene

Every year thousands of pilgrims from all over the country come to Manila to be part of the procession of the Black Nazarene. All participants in the procession hope that they will have the opportunity to touch the wooden statue. They hope that this will protect them from harm and ensure health

in the future. Indeed, it is said that sometimes persons were healed of diseases after touching the statue! (A Filipino: "My daughter was very sick, so I joined this procession last year. Now she is cured...."). Some of them follow the statue during the procession because they believe it is an atonement of their sins or hope for some miracle.

9 million people attend Black Nazarene procession (2013)