New Enthusiasm
Dec. 6th, 2018 08:26 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkIt all started when the fridge broke. It wasn't really worth fixing, what with the torn door gaskets and all, and we were sick and tired of fixing the recurring Frozen Fan problem, so off to the appliance store we went. We
ended up with a rather pricey European model with gleaming glass shelves and a super-organized bottom freezer. Yay! This required rethinking where we put things in the fridge, because nothing is ever the same. The rest of
my household seemed to regard this as a dreary chore, but I was excited to make a fresh start with nothing on the shelves that I didn't remember putting there. I'm surprised the food is even staying cold, what with me opening the doors every few hours just to look at what's inside. It's a thing of beauty. But I'm pretty sure I felt that way about the last new fridge, and it degenerated to such squalor. Not this time!
So I resolved to Start Planning Meals. No more wasted food! I cleaned out the cupboards and identified some particularly robust and attractive food storage containers, giving preference to the glass ones to match the
gleaming new shelves. And I finally decided to tackle the stack of old Prevention Magazines that I can't bring myself to throw out because they have such great recipes.
The very latest Prevention actually had a recipe I wanted to try, since I had just bought a pound of ground turkey with no particular plans on what to do with it. I made up some rules for my new game. This time I wouldn't
just madly cut out any recipe that sounded good, pile them somewhere, and never use any of them. I would pick out just a handful for the upcoming week, actually shop for the ingredients, and MAKE THE RECIPE. If we like
it, it gets to stay in the book. Otherwise it's out.
I dug out an unused photo album left over from an earlier project that didn't work out and figured out a way to paste up the recipes on index cards so I could slide them into the album. Recipe #1 is "Turkey Burgers with Tomato Jam." I made it tonight, and it was delicious. The key ingredient is not really the turkey or the tomatoes, it's the roasted
garlic cloves. Yum! So this recipe gets to stay in the book.
ended up with a rather pricey European model with gleaming glass shelves and a super-organized bottom freezer. Yay! This required rethinking where we put things in the fridge, because nothing is ever the same. The rest of
my household seemed to regard this as a dreary chore, but I was excited to make a fresh start with nothing on the shelves that I didn't remember putting there. I'm surprised the food is even staying cold, what with me opening the doors every few hours just to look at what's inside. It's a thing of beauty. But I'm pretty sure I felt that way about the last new fridge, and it degenerated to such squalor. Not this time!
So I resolved to Start Planning Meals. No more wasted food! I cleaned out the cupboards and identified some particularly robust and attractive food storage containers, giving preference to the glass ones to match the
gleaming new shelves. And I finally decided to tackle the stack of old Prevention Magazines that I can't bring myself to throw out because they have such great recipes.
The very latest Prevention actually had a recipe I wanted to try, since I had just bought a pound of ground turkey with no particular plans on what to do with it. I made up some rules for my new game. This time I wouldn't
just madly cut out any recipe that sounded good, pile them somewhere, and never use any of them. I would pick out just a handful for the upcoming week, actually shop for the ingredients, and MAKE THE RECIPE. If we like
it, it gets to stay in the book. Otherwise it's out.
I dug out an unused photo album left over from an earlier project that didn't work out and figured out a way to paste up the recipes on index cards so I could slide them into the album. Recipe #1 is "Turkey Burgers with Tomato Jam." I made it tonight, and it was delicious. The key ingredient is not really the turkey or the tomatoes, it's the roasted
garlic cloves. Yum! So this recipe gets to stay in the book.
