Kitch Cure (2014) 6-10
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parasitegirlThe Kitchn Cure Day 6: Monday, August 18
Assignment: Evaluate your pots, pans, and small appliances. Discard what you don't need.
This was a the day I scrubbed one of my pots with baking soda, dish soap and water with scrub brushes until it was silver again. I also scubbed the bathroom by many means and removed calcium build-up with a pumice stone... for about 3 hours...and then didn't sleep.
Thus was the cue of "You need your yearly higher dosage of LEXAPRO!" ...I am on it.
I don't have very many small appliances. This would be the current list:
I also jumped ahead to day 10's task: Buy that pan or small appliance you need.
My tupperware is/was...um...a cloudy, warped, unevenly textured, uninviting collection of things that don't stack well and are hard to see into. I replaced about half of it with these glass food containers with plastic tops pictured above. I don't know how spill proof they'd be to transport but I have my fine collection of bento boxes for that. Next month I plan to get some similar ones in larger sizes for my larger food-holding needs.
Here they are in their natural environment. My fridge might seen barren but I've been cooking daily and there are now go-to foods for eating waiting for me when I don't feel up to full cooking. It's an improvement.
I've also been mining www.budgetbytes.com for recipes as they are generally simple and tasty. They are not >always< cheap for me because she's using what she can get in America easily. Feta Cheese is expensive here. Hoisin sauce isn't easy to find.
The Kitchn Cure Day 7: Tuesday, August 19
Assignment: Clean the oven.
The Kitchn Cure Day 8: Wednesday, August 20
Assignment: Clean your stovetop and range hood.
These get lumped together because...well...I don't have than much "oven" to clean. My microwave doubles as a convection oven and then this is the range and oven we're working with.
Those are the curtains I made last year. They serve as my summertime protection from the sun. Without them the kitchen floor was notably hot under my feet come midday and entering my place (the entrance nook is right next to the kitchen) in summer involved a lot of swearing.
The Kitchn Cure Day 9: Thursday, August 21
Assignment: Clean your small appliances.
Assignment: Buy that pan or small appliance you need.
DONE!
Assignment: Evaluate your pots, pans, and small appliances. Discard what you don't need.
This was a the day I scrubbed one of my pots with baking soda, dish soap and water with scrub brushes until it was silver again. I also scubbed the bathroom by many means and removed calcium build-up with a pumice stone... for about 3 hours...and then didn't sleep.
Thus was the cue of "You need your yearly higher dosage of LEXAPRO!" ...I am on it.
I don't have very many small appliances. This would be the current list:
- Microwave.
- Coffee grinder (hand)
- combination emersion blender wand and food processor (best thing ever)
- rice maker.
I also jumped ahead to day 10's task: Buy that pan or small appliance you need.
My tupperware is/was...um...a cloudy, warped, unevenly textured, uninviting collection of things that don't stack well and are hard to see into. I replaced about half of it with these glass food containers with plastic tops pictured above. I don't know how spill proof they'd be to transport but I have my fine collection of bento boxes for that. Next month I plan to get some similar ones in larger sizes for my larger food-holding needs.
Here they are in their natural environment. My fridge might seen barren but I've been cooking daily and there are now go-to foods for eating waiting for me when I don't feel up to full cooking. It's an improvement.
I've also been mining www.budgetbytes.com for recipes as they are generally simple and tasty. They are not >always< cheap for me because she's using what she can get in America easily. Feta Cheese is expensive here. Hoisin sauce isn't easy to find.
The Kitchn Cure Day 7: Tuesday, August 19
Assignment: Clean the oven.
The Kitchn Cure Day 8: Wednesday, August 20
Assignment: Clean your stovetop and range hood.
These get lumped together because...well...I don't have than much "oven" to clean. My microwave doubles as a convection oven and then this is the range and oven we're working with.
Those are the curtains I made last year. They serve as my summertime protection from the sun. Without them the kitchen floor was notably hot under my feet come midday and entering my place (the entrance nook is right next to the kitchen) in summer involved a lot of swearing.
The Kitchn Cure Day 9: Thursday, August 21
Assignment: Clean your small appliances.
- Microwave: The inner tray of the microwave was part of the day I cleaned all the things with baking soda before admitting that my prescription needed to be increased.
- Coffee grinder (hand); Took it apart, cleaned it.
- Combination emersion blender wand and food processor: Baking soda day.
- Rice maker: We shall never talk of the horrors I saw. Still, it's better than my first rice maker...About two years I realized that it had a little resevoir in the back for catching rice-water that condensed on the hood of the inside and then trickled into the resevoir when opened...that was a horrible day. It involved wall scrubbing.
Assignment: Buy that pan or small appliance you need.
DONE!
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Date: 2014-08-27 05:36 pm (UTC)