re: Kitchen / Cooking tips that you learned late or that you want to share?

I like cooking with fresh garlic. When I was almost 60 years old , my daughter was visiting, and we were getting ready to boil some crawfish. When I got out the garlic and started taking off the "skin", she told me first zap a few pods in the micro.

This got the garlic warm and the "skin" came off very easily.