jicama salad recipe

This is a crunchy and refreshing salad.

Peel jicama and cut into cubes about 1/2 to 3/4 inch wide.
Mix vinegar* with frozen orange juice concentrate to taste, and pour it over the jicama.
Optionally, add a can of clementines (drained) and/or other fruit.
Tastes best after having been refrigerated a day or 2 to let the dressing soak in.

*I used pear-infused balsamic vinegar.

shower curtain cleaning

I discovered an easier way to clean my plastic/peva shower curtain.

If only the bottom of the curtain needs to be cleaned, you can scrub the curtain with a brush against the bottom side of the tub, without having to remove it from the rod or anything.

But cleaning it higher up is difficult. In the past, I removed it from the rings, partially folded it, and laid it in the tub in order to scrub it with a brush, while using the shower head to rinse it off. Then I unfolded another area of the curtain and repeated, until the whole thing was clean. This is difficult due to only being able to clean a small part of the curtain at a time, as the curtain is much larger than the bottom of the tub. Taking the curtain off the rings, and putting it back on again is also tedious.

New method:
(requires there to be a wall around 3 sides of the tub;
requires the curtain rod to be a tension rod, not screwed into the wall)

Leave the curtain and rings on the rod.
Loosen rod from wall.
Flip the rod around, depending on which side of the curtain you want to clean.
Position rod close to the inner wall of the tub (still up high so that the curtain hangs down like normal).
Then scrub the curtain with a brush; the back wall provides a solid surface against which to brush.
Rinse curtain with shower head, then return curtain rod to regular position.