My Fridge is a Magical Closet of Mystery!
Tuesday, March 31, 2009 at 11:31PM I am all about reducing, reusing and recycling, but I have realized the limitations of using washed-out yogurt containers as tupperware.
Well, I guess it's really just one limitation: opacity.
(Do any of these actually contain dairy?)
Every time I open one, it's like a surprise party! Why, there's that bit of brown rice I saved from four days ago! I wasn't expecting you.
In other news, remember when I said I'd be posting more recipes and organizing them in March?
You don't? Okay good, I never did!
In my defense, when I began a Seattle Food Events and Resources site, I really didn't comprehend just HOW MANY SEATTLE FOOD EVENTS AND RESOURCES THERE WOULD BE TO POST ABOUT. Lordy!
And, despite the almost incandescent, near total lack of interest in it thus far, it still manages to take up much more of my time than this site.
But I have made teeny tiny offline progress for here. I've at least compiled the recipes for the meals I will be posting, and I have upcoming a few posts nearly ready on investing in satisfaction, a meal that took me three years to make, and Condiment Crank, a recipe I made up all by myself (almost) and that is so good and so freakishly addictive it might actually be irresponsible for me to post it.
Stay tuned!
Reader Comments (4)
Lol! I love this entry -- I suffer from the same with the opacity of containers :) Glad to have found your blog -- I look forward to reading more of your entries!
I have a solution for you, dearie.... post it notes! adding item and date has saved me several unpleasant surprises.
Heh - "Every time I open one, it's like a surprise party!" - too funny!
I can relate, although I do have a solution that's similar to Sarah's... I just stick a piece of masking tape on each container and use a Sharpie to write the contents/date on it.
It works great!
These are excellent ideas, the challenge is mainly that I seem to go into some kind of fugue state when at the tidy-up-and-put-stuff-away part of a meal where I am so desperate to get the hell out of the kitchen that I convince myself I will remember what is in THIS yogurt container ("This time it's different!") and the possibility of taking two extra seconds to label seems like an outrageous imposition to the ADD-addled portion of my mind...