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[pepper_field]

I was having fun looking at surreallis 's cupboards, so I thought I'd share mine.

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[surreallis]

Ooh, yay! *stares*

Okay, first, how odd that you call ketchup a 'sauce' and yet... yes. That IS what it is.

Also, 'posh stuffing'. Haaaa! :D

Also, if your homemade salsa is that good it's perhaps a good idea to post the recipe? :P

[pepper_field]

Well, I'd also consider calling it a condiment... 'sauce' seemed like the best word for all the bottles and jars of stuff in there.

Heh - well, it's totally posh. One is roasted hazelnut and red onion flavour, and the other is "country garden", and they look like they have real foodstuffs in them, and not the usual sawdust and herbs that you get in most stuffing.

They'll probably taste like sawdust and herbs, of course...

Hee. The salsa is A's - he says he'll give me the recipe.

[shutthef_up]

Very cool, thanks!

Uh, eggs shouldn't go in the fridge? I did not know that. I do know that they're good for a very, very long time - at least in the fridge, but I didn't know that they didn't require refrigeration.

I think virtually everyone in the US refrigerates them. I want to know more about that! Do tell!

[pepper_field]

Well, if they're very fresh, they shouldn't need it. Basically, egg white breaks down a lot quicker in the fridge - fresh eggs should hold together in a pan (if you're doing poached eggs, for e.g., that's very important). Depending on how hot the climate is, I guess - I've no idea if it's best to keep them refrigerated if you live somewhere really hot. And in fairness, if you're planning to keep them for a longer while, they last longer in a fridge. They just aren't as nice, IMO.

We used to keep chickens when I was a kid, see, and my parents were vehemently against battery farming, refrigerated eggs, or eggs that had been kept for any length of time. :)

[holdouttrout]

We always refrigerate eggs! And veggies--not most fruits, though.

Hmmm...Now I'm trying to think about what actually needs to be in the fridge and what's just habit.

[pepper_field]

Yeah, a lot of people do - over here, too. If you use them within a couple of weeks of buying them, it's totally not necessary. I think those fridge egg tray things just encourage paranoia.

Mind you, I probably put a load of things in the fridge that don't really need to be there. And I'm UNBELIEVABLY picky about fruit. :)

(And this is all just what I've been brought up to believe, so YMMV.)

lol

[shinysilvergrl]

I love the ones with question marks pointing to them. Like you don't even have any idea, lol. And the one that says "possibly artichokes".

And *snicker*...when Paul was living with me I actually hid my yogurt (the low-cal stuff) down in the veggie drawers (behind the veggies, of course) because he never looks in there, and indeed just sort of even forgets there *are* drawers down there.

I had to hide them, of course, because once he was finished with his own yogurt he'd just move on to mine. And then I - who only used to eat like, one or two a week at most - would come home to try and pack my lunch and have none available. So...the hiding. T'was fun. And it's funny to see that you also overlook those drawers. *g*

Re: lol

[pepper_field]

Heh! Yes, that second drawer would be a good hiding place, if I ever remembered to look in there. I suspect with me and A, though, it would end up with the whatever-we-put-in-there growing legs and escaping.

I don't know half of what I have in the cupboard - it's in such an awkward position, near the floor, that I can't see into it, and the light doesn't reach it. Some of it is oats, though - I do know that...

Oh, and I checked, after posting that pic, and it turns out it is artichokes. *g*

[abyssinia4077]

I thought you didn't like peanut butter!
*looks oddly at the dehydrated potato*

Yay picspams!

[pepper_field]

I don't like peanut butter! That's entirely A's. He loves the horrible stuff. It's nice in cookies, though, I'll grant that.

The dehydrated potato is lazy but useful - it rehydrates into mashed potatoes. My parents would be appalled. A introduced me to it, and I find it guiltily useful. *g*

(See how I handily blame all bad foodstuffs on A? *g*)