February 2021 - New winter ideas?

"Fished out" a rainbow trout from my freezer, gotta do something with it today. Will see what poppes up.

On my way to drive to Orlando to get my first COVID 19 vaccination.

Planning to do a bunch of shopping as long as I'm there.....Costco, Trader Joe's, Asian Market & Whole Foods.....Woo Hoo!

Lucky you! Hope you don't come home with any virus. Double mask. Got my shot yesterday. Today all I have is a sore arm.

I am trying to figure out how to store my dishtowels, dishrags and pot holders. I have a lot because I change them every day. My kitchen drawers are small and shallow. My Ove Gloves take up a lot of room. Got any ideas?

Roulades' plus ,Chicken soup with fine egg noodles.

[quote="Bugster2"]I am trying to figure out how to store my dishtowels, dishrags and pot holders. I have a lot because I change them every day. My kitchen drawers are small and shallow. My Ove Gloves take up a lot of room. Got any ideas?[/quote

If you change them every day, where do you take the soiled ones? Is there room where those go to store the clean, unused ones.? You know, bring a dirty one, take a clean one! Now that would only be for the dishtowels and rags, pot holders have to be where you use them.

I made my rainbow trout by poaching it. Good, but a lot of work. I sent a picture and more info to Beth.............. Thanks for posting, Beth!

Cookin Lore wrote:

Bugster2 wrote:I am trying to figure out how to store my dishtowels, dishrags and pot holders. I have a lot because I change them every day. My kitchen drawers are small and shallow. My Ove Gloves take up a lot of room. Got any ideas?[/quote

If you change them every day, where do you take the soiled ones?  Is there room where those go to store the clean, unused ones.? You know, bring a dirty one, take a clean one!  Now that would only be for the dishtowels and rags, pot holders have to be where you use them.  

I take the dirty towels upstairs to the laundry room. I guess I should do some more purging to make room for them in the kitchen.

Bugster2 wrote:I am trying to figure out how to store my dishtowels, dishrags and pot holders. I have a lot because I change them every day. My kitchen drawers are small and shallow. My Ove Gloves take up a lot of room. Got any ideas?

We have one whole drawer dedicated to dish towels in the kitchen.
In the bathroom, we use white wash clothes rolled up and in a basket on back of the toilet tank. That way, we all wipe our hands and throw them into a white plastic trash basket; and then Tina washes them separately and bleaches them also.
I hate wiping on an ""everybody towel!""

My drawers are so small I finally put up some hooks inside the cabinet doors to hold the pot holders. That will free up some space. Naturally, as I had the drawer open, the kitten got in it and decided to take a bath. It is getting big,

Cookin Lore wrote:I made my rainbow trout by poaching it.  Good, but a lot of work.  I sent a picture and more info to Beth.............. Thanks for posting, Beth!

"Tonight. Poached rainbow trout and lentils with peppers, parsley, snap peas.
Trout was good but I made a poaching liquid for which I chopped an onion, garlic, carrots, celery, then used 3 cups of white wine, water, bay leaf, fresh parsley and thyme. Simmered that for an hour, then strained it, then simmered the clear liquid some more. Then the trout went into it for about an hour while it cooled down. Taste was good, but I think poaching the fish in chicken stock would have been just as good. Should have had the wine in my glass instead! Lol"







(And, you're very welcome, Lore! I don't mind doing the posting for you at all.....even if it's a few hours late!)

We still can't dine inside here.

Bugster2 wrote:I am trying to figure out how to store my dishtowels, dishrags and pot holders. I have a lot because I change them every day. My kitchen drawers are small and shallow. My Ove Gloves take up a lot of room. Got any ideas?

I fold them the “married kondo” way And they fit I. A shallow drawer

JanaAZ wrote:

Bugster2 wrote:I am trying to figure out how to store my dishtowels, dishrags and pot holders. I have a lot because I change them every day. My kitchen drawers are small and shallow. My Ove Gloves take up a lot of room. Got any ideas?

I fold them the “married kondo” way And they fit I. A shallow drawer

OK, I am intrigued.................. what is the married kondo way?

I had a chicken breast cut into chunks to brown up and then add some sauce to.....a yellow & green zucchini & half an onion to saute and a nice garnet sweet potato to share.

All went well until I cut the sweet potato in half to share and found that it was black in the inside ~ nothing was going to convince me to eat THAT!

So, supper was chicken chunks and zucchini ~ HE got a tiny bit of warmed up leftover noodles that were in the refrigerator.

(( I'll survive, believe me......LOL ))

This is the second day in a row that I made this recipe. Yesterday's batch ended up in the trash because I accidentally filled the sugar canister with salt. We couldn't eat it. Charlie ordered sushi delivered. Fortunately I had another package to try again.

Cookin Lore wrote:

JanaAZ wrote:

Bugster2 wrote:I am trying to figure out how to store my dishtowels, dishrags and pot holders. I have a lot because I change them every day. My kitchen drawers are small and shallow. My Ove Gloves take up a lot of room. Got any ideas?

I fold them the “married kondo” way And they fit I. A shallow drawer

OK, I am intrigued.................. what is the married kondo way?

It is Marie Kondo. She is an Asian author who wrote a book on how to de-clutter. She is too much of a minimalist for me. Her dishtowels are folded and then rolled and put in a drawer. Not my style.

NormM wrote:This is the second day in a row that I made this recipe. Yesterday's batch ended up in the trash because I accidentally filled the sugar canister with salt.  We couldn't eat it. Charlie ordered sushi delivered.  Fortunately I had another package to try again.

OMG! That must have been a huge surprise!

But, hey, $hit happens to all of us at one time or another.......

Tonight's chicken wings look pretty tasty!

Bugster2 wrote:

Cookin Lore wrote:

JanaAZ wrote:

Bugster2 wrote:I am trying to figure out how to store my dishtowels, dishrags and pot holders. I have a lot because I change them every day. My kitchen drawers are small and shallow. My Ove Gloves take up a lot of room. Got any ideas?

I fold them the “married kondo” way And they fit I. A shallow drawer

OK, I am intrigued.................. what is the married kondo way?

It is Marie Kondo. She is an Asian author who wrote a book on how to de-clutter. She is too much of a minimalist for me. Her dishtowels are folded and then rolled and put in a drawer. Not my style.

Oh, I've read about her. But first folding and then rolling towels? That doesn't save space in my opinion. She's probably made a gazillion dollars telling people what is just plain common sense in most cases. But, common sense isn't very common any more, right?

NormM wrote:This is the second day in a row that I made this recipe. Yesterday's batch ended up in the trash because I accidentally filled the sugar canister with salt.  We couldn't eat it. Charlie ordered sushi delivered.  Fortunately I had another package to try again.

"Hey Norm,...........don't forget....Walk like a penguin!" I see you got some ice in Kansas.

Ice and snow, Jimmy. My car is AWD and it was still skidding and slipping around today.

Winter storm warning today, snow starting, so I think it's a good day for cooking. I seem to have over purchased bell peppers last week, so stuffed peppers it is. I bought some pre-made burger patties a while ago, don't like them, but I think converted to the pepper filling they will be just fine. Time to become creative.