Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Spicing it up!

I have been cleaning a lot at my house lately, but I haven't been so good at taking pictures. We have a dining room that is closed off to the rest of the house that largely serves as a craft, decorating, storage, miscellaneous room most of the time. Unless we are hosting a large gathering, we use our kitchen to serve and eat meals.

But last Friday we hosted a navy function and needed our dining room to serve all the food. I actually cleaned the room by sorting everything in it and finding a permanent place for every item. But alas, no before picture. So, it's really not all that impressive of a task for those of you who never saw it!

Here's a smaller job that I actually do have pictures of. In the interest of full disclosure, I actually did this last summer and never posted it. But it's still organized and working for me, so here's my new and improved spice cabinet.

Before

My cabinet was full, but it was hard to find anything that I really needed.

So everything came out to be sorted. Expired spices and baking items were thrown away. And everything was grouped with other similar items. There were multiples of several spices that were combined to save space.

After

Then it all went back into the cabinet properly labeled with space to spare.

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4 comments:

  1. Is it wrong that I'm jealous? :)

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  2. Oh boy...I so need to do that! No matter how hard I try to stay on top if it...it always gets away from me. I'm a crazy chef, I tell ya!

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  3. I started to do this... and stopped. I need to finish! Hubby is frustrated with me because there is a box on the counter with all my spices in it! I'm not sure why but it's easier for me to find them in the box than it was in the cabinet. Thanks for the motivation!

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  4. I put all my spices in pint sized canning jars. This way they are all uniform in size for stacking, I can get any sized measuring spoon into the jar, and since the labels are not taking up the whole jar, I can easily see when I am low on something. I transfer bigger stuff such as baking cocoa, salt, pwd. milk and bulk spices into quart jars for storage.

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