The microorganisms, they love me
Published by SH on Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 12:13 PMI keep doing this. Why do I do this? I spend money on groceries. I spend ungodly amounts of time in the produce aisle, selecting the most perfect pepper, the ripest tomato, the unblemished cauliflower.
Then I come home and put them in the crisper drawer and leave them there to rot.
I just cleaned out my fridge. Threw away a full baggie of bell peppers I actually took the time to slice up so they'd be ready for salads and fajitas. Orange, red, yellow, and green peppers. Gorgeous! Expensive! All that effort, and then I let them go moldy in the bag. Why?
I also threw out:
• a never-opened container of Trader Joe's roasted red pepper hummus, expiration date March 5th;
• half a carton of lovely grape tomatoes;
• oh, also some grapes;
• a bunch of asparagus;
• a package of bacon the color of asparagus;
• some Swiss cheese, also green;
• half a can of artichoke hearts I meant to put on a salad;
• six beautiful Easter eggs (don't tell the kids); and
• half a package of prosciutto—prosciutto, for God's sake!
I am like the Lady Bountiful of landfills. What is wrong with me? I should just start throwing the money directly into the trash can and cut out the 40 degree middleman.
I would say it's because I can't really *see* the stuff in the crisper drawer, but you know, I keep opening it up to pull out the baby spinach, so that's no excuse.
...and I just *know* that the romaine lettuce I bought for caesar salads is going to go bad any moment now. But my caesar salad jag passed long ago...
But, it's the damned artichoke hearts. Nobody wants them more than once in a while and I end up tossing them.
Hey, speaking of artichoke hearts, anyone know where to get packages of frozen artichoke hearts? I have a recipe that I am dying to make that requires them. I know, I can use canned but I am trying to do this right.
And I need to have a conversation with appliances. Or myself regarding appliances.
"Just because you have a brand new, fantastical oven does NOT, repeat, does NOT mean you have to make chocolate chip cookies every g*ddammed night!"
mmmmmmmmmmmm............cookies...
that is exactly what you are SUPPOSED to do with a brand new oven..... GRASSHOPPER!