April 11, 2008

Fridgin’ Out: How We Eat in PortsMOUTH

by Mel

This is my first post since moving to Portsmouth, NH and I owed it to Kay-o-ko to post my fridge contents. The contents are a little meager. I think I ate salad, miso soup and inari all week which was actually totally fine with me. Some of you know how much I love inari-san. So here it is…

Front of Fridge:
A running list of food and apartment (and car) items – like windshield wipers (I know, random), recipes and a chinese food menu so I can get my fix (mmm, chicken fingers)…I miss ordering chicken fingers from behind bullet proof glass.
Fridge Door:
My Restasis eye drops (love chronic dry eye, it’s really great to have a 40 hour a week computer job with it – highly recommend), cat food (one likes salmon, the other likes beef – so high maintenance), condiments (dressing, ketchup, soy sauce, jam, whipped cream, mustard, mayo, worcestershire, chili-garlic sauce, hoisin, sriracha, miso, beer).

Don’t you just hate how your condiments just start piling up on you (especially the asian ones like rice wine vinegar, 10 different noodle soup bases and mirin and a bunch of others you’ll never use because you always just order out…and I swear I had like 5 million jams in the last apartment) and then inevitably something falls off the door and cracks, and you put it back and then your fridge door gets all sticky????
Level One:
Water reservoir, container of fried tofu, bowl of peanut sauce for Vietnamese spring rolls I already ate, shredded cheese, bread, english muffins, eggs.
Level Two:
My Sesame Street “little ones” juice boxes, a bottle of champagne (or maybe it’s sparkling cider), a Campbell’s microwavable soup thing, not sure why it’s in the fridge, kielbasa (don’t miss you Greenpoint), butter, cream cheese, cheddar cheese, PG Tips.
Level Three:
Milk, Pinot Grigio in a box, feta, peeled garlic, chicken broth, ziploc bags of kidney beans and black olives, big bottle of Elmo’s fruit punch, more beer, soy milk, miso soup, chocolate milk, containers of egg salad and split pea soup from my mom, big container of yogurt, some rolls way in the back that are probably stale and way way in the back a bottle of sake.
The Vegetable Bin:
Red pepper, tofu, limes, scallions, celery, plums, jalepenos, tomato, romaine lettuce. Nothing rotting since I threw that all out last weekend.
Freezer Door:
My two loaves of shoku pan that I refused to throw out in NY and now I don’t want to use it because there’s no way Lo’s Oriental market has it up here… maybe on a special occasion for french toast… some chopped spinach (think I might make some spinach pie with the feta I have); and some frozen ravioli.

Freezer:
A whole lot of lean cuisine since it’s not like i can just walk to Oms/b for lunch now, some gelato, neopolitan ice cream, frozen green beans, sausage links, eggos, fries, homemade veggie soup frozen, breaded chicken breasts and skinny cow ice cream sandwiches.
That’s it!

3 Comments

  • kayoko
    Posted April 13, 2008 at 11:05 am

    mel- this is fascinating. was your fridge this stocked when you lived here in NY? i ask cause i remember you got take-out a lot. your veggie box is pretty full. and all that milk!

    PG Tips in the fridge? can someone please tell me if this actually keeps tea fresher?

    love the juice boxes. also def need to bring back boxed wine. that is so classy.

    thanks for sharing Mel- chinese takeout here misses you too.

    xxk

  • teadog
    Posted April 16, 2008 at 2:23 pm

    Very cool pics of the fridge.

    It best not to keep tea in the fridge. The taste will deteriorate.

    Just keep it in a cool dry place away from strong odors (such as coffee or chocolate). Tea will absorb odors.

  • kayoko
    Posted April 16, 2008 at 5:20 pm

    Teadog- THANK YOU for answering this question, as it has come up many times in the last month.

    I wonder if coffee is the same thing? Would you happen to know?

    Teadog.com is very cool. Is that you?

    K

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