It’s Your End of MAY MENU and Food for Thought:
#182 THURSDAY, MAY 16TH at 11 AM
CRISPY SALMON with GREEN CURRY SPINACH (Serves 4)
A delightful crispy savory dish
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#183 THURSDAY, MAY 23rd at 11 AM
SPICY/SWEET SHRIMP and VEGGIES
An impromptu recipe I came up with…Good Hot or Cold
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#184 THURSDAY, MAY 30th at 11AM
SPICY SCRAMBLED ANYTIME EGGS with GARDEN GREENS
My garden is producing good greens…breakfast or Lunch
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Here's your Food For Thought
Good laugh & worth the read!!
Remember, RickisKitchen is about eating good food, gaining life and discovering the joy and empowerment of eating for health - in a clear/clean environment 😊
After a week in the mountains of Colorado that brought back my reverence for clean air and breathing space, I thought about cleaning up my work spaces and how valuable decluttering my life and reducing stress is in living well. So, I got serious about clearing out the mind and stress levels in my home, one room at a time...
If you want a laugh and can relate, and, keep reading.
It all began with the work/gathering/living space called the kitchen. Here’s a story that illustrates why.
While visiting a dear friend’s home in CO, as I began helping her prepare dinner, I opened her refrigerator and stopped, in shock. I was hit with a 3 shelf and 2 door wide pile of foods, bottles, jars; EVERYTHING was just stuffed into whatever space seemed available.
NO organization at all. A lot of foil, plastic, boxes stuffed in to open spaces. Yakkk! Impossible to find anything without tearing through piles of packages and crap. Couldn’t see the back or if there was a back to this refrigerator.
The drawers were almost impossible to open, produce was jammed in willy-nilly on the shelves and the drawers contained anything and everything BUT produce! A foodie’s nightmare. Oh, yeah, milk bottles were on their sides as the tall door shelves were stacked with jars and bottles.
I really should have taken a photo…but I thought she'd be upset.
SO, I volunteered to organize it so she could find everything with ease.
She left to do some errands, (what are visiting friends for after all)?
WHEW, about 3 hours and 5 jars of the same gourmet fig preserves (some unopened) later, it had all her dairy, jellies, jams, condiments, cheeses, produce, and “leftovers” organized into their own spaces.
Even the 4 jars of opened Dijon mustard (some from 2016 which we tossed) were housed on their own shelf with other related goodies. Also tossed several packages of dried, deteriorated unidentifiable stuff.
I exhumed and cleaned one large shelf onto which I relocated all the dairy products, and assigned part of it for covered leftovers and some baggies and jars of other partially eaten foods. The milk bottles were relocated upright on one door with other tall liquids, now easily reachable.
The other door shelves held bottled condiments, sauces, 1 large ketchup (combined from 3 opened bottles) and other related items. Get the picture?
The 2 produce bins now housed the lettuce, celery, sweet peppers etc. and I found more fresh veggies and cheeses she didn’t remember she had crammed into a shelf. Tossed one celery and other duplicates or triplicates of greens that were really soggy. Added a growing bluish ‘science experiment’ and totally filled her large garbage pail.
At last, the refrigerator was organized.
Whether It stays that way is anyone’s guess 😊 She was so grateful she told her friends and they wanted to hire me…. It was then I decided that was the best place to begin Spring cleanout.
More to follow....
