Tour of My Kitchen

I'm feeling tired so today is a boring day in terms of eating. Instead of posting about what I ate, I figured I'd give you a tour of my kitchen so you can see where I store all of the food.

When you first walk into the kitchen, on your left is a skinny broom closet that we've decided to use as a pantry. Here it is:


Next to the broom closet pantry is the fridge/freezer. The fridge is on the bottom and the freezer is on the top. Here is the fridge. The main part is contains mostly dairy and produce. The door contains condiments, yeast, and butter.



And here is the freezer. You'll notice that there are lots of containers of soup in the main compartment, as well as some frozen produce. The door has homemade applesauce, breaded and frozen eggplant, and berries.



On top of the fridge are various liquids and some vegetable shortening:


Next to the fridge is the oven, and on top of the oven is the spice cabinet. Canning stuff on the top left. Baking equipment and lots of chocolate on the top right. The bottom shelf is all the spices. We tried to group the spices used mainly in baking towards the left and the spices used mainly in savory dishes on the right. You can also see the ziplock bags of dried chiles and basil that my aunt Franny gave me from her garden:


Ok. Let's stop looking to the left. If you look to the right instead, you'll see a bookshelf. Flours and black beans are in the jars on the top, with some apples and bananas on top of them. You're not supposed to store apples and bananas together because the apples will cause the bananas to ripen, but we eat them quickly enough that it doesn't really matter. Looking down a bit, the highest shelf is cookbooks and garlic, ginger, and onions (note: onions can't be kept with most other produce but they're fine with garlic and ginger). The middle shelf is food-related literature and all of our teas. The lower shelf is phone books and a basket of root vegetables (mostly potatoes). You can also see Esh's food bowl and her new drinkwell fountain on the floor in front of the bookshelf.


If you look to the right of the bookshelf there is a wall. That wall has a cut-out that looks into the dining room and on the shelf formed from that cut-out, we keep containers of dried goods, plus some tissues, vitamins, my homemade cookbook, and our ipod speakers.


And last but not least, on the dining room table is this random pile of squash which we're slowly eating through: