I cleaned out a refrigerator today and reorganized it.
I found all these amazing, interesting items but I didn't know how to use them. Stuff like grape sauce (Mosto D'Uvo).
So here's the plan. I typed up a list of what's in the frig by shelf. Then when I need inspiration for something to cook, I can choose from the list and do a search for a recipe using that ingredient. In the above example with the grape sauce, I could only find one recipe at Epicurious but then I did a Google search and turned up the Mosto D'Ovo web site, which had many interesting suggestions.
In another case, I did a search for "sugar ginger" and turned up tons of interesting recipes.
Here's my list and how I organized it. BTW, I organized it by the way I could best preserve space, so that accounts for why you might see "basil pesto" in more than one spot.
Top back:
Basil pesto
Coconut juice
Capers
Cornichons
Garlic, roasted, minced
Peanut butter
Truffle butter
Walnuts, preserved
2nd Back:
Anchovy filets (2)
Basil pesto
Burke’s steak sauce
Cherries, sour
Chili paste (1), garlic oil (1), sweet sauce (1)
Dulce la leche
Flaxseed oil
Fat, duck
Fat, pork
Fish sauce for spring roll
Honey, raw (2)
Lemons, pickled
Lime relish
Peppers, hot in olive oil
Preserves: orange, raspberry, strawberry, strawberry balsamic, apricot, lemon and lime curd, white melon jam, pineapple
Soy dressing & marinade with citrus juices
Tomato chutney
Quince sauce
3rd Back:
Caviar
Chicken wing sauce (hot)
Cocktail sauce, red
Coconut oil
Ginger, sugar
Hoisin sauce
Maple syrup
Marinade, cabernet and roasted garlic
Mosto D’Uva (grape sauce)
Pumpkin chipotle sauce
Red pepper spread
Tahini
Walnut nut butter
As I use things up, I'll cross them off the list and re-print. Same thing goes for adding new items.
So what do you think? Usable?
Cher