Overwhelmed by "one-time use" !!

Michael Horowitz said:

All are marked "refrigerate after use", so there they stay.

Anyone else have this problem? - Mike

Used to.
The other side of the coin in a marriage with a man who, left to his own
devices, slops everything in one bowl and has what I think would rank
low for "a dog's dinner" is how grateful he is when *I* slop everything
into a bowl, nuke it, and deliver it to him with pinched nose.
blacksalt

In article <[email hidden]>,

Michael Horowitz said:

I'm cleaning out my refrigerator and I find a great deal of my space
is taken up with "use once" and forget items. How did I get here???
Here's an inventory of Chinese items followed by my collection of
pickles and olives:

Kikoman's sweet and sour sauce
" " soy sauce
" " stirfry sauce
" " teriyaki marinade/sauce
oyster flavored sauce
oyster sauce
hoisin sauce

Capers
Spanish olives
Mingling olives
Pickled cauliflower
Pitted kalamata olives
Sweet relish
Homemade cucumber kimchee
Homemade hot dills
Hot cherry peppers
Kosher dills
pepperoncini

All are marked "refrigerate after use", so there they stay.

Anyone else have this problem? - Mike

YES! Our fridge door and the top shelf are crammed with condiments.
Sigh....I need a good recipe that uses a bunch of them up or something.

marcella

On Thu 21 Apr 2005 03:45:21p, Marcella Peek wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Michael Horowitz said:

I'm cleaning out my refrigerator and I find a great deal of my space
is taken up with "use once" and forget items. How did I get here???
Here's an inventory of Chinese items followed by my collection of
pickles and olives:

Kikoman's sweet and sour sauce
" " soy sauce
" " stirfry sauce
" " teriyaki marinade/sauce
oyster flavored sauce
oyster sauce
hoisin sauce

Capers
Spanish olives
Mingling olives
Pickled cauliflower
Pitted kalamata olives
Sweet relish
Homemade cucumber kimchee
Homemade hot dills
Hot cherry peppers
Kosher dills
pepperoncini

All are marked "refrigerate after use", so there they stay.

Anyone else have this problem? - Mike

YES! Our fridge door and the top shelf are crammed with condiments.
Sigh....I need a good recipe that uses a bunch of them up or something.

marcella

LOL! Mix them all together and take the results to a potluck. <g>

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

On Thu 21 Apr 2005 03:33:31p, Michael Horowitz wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

I'm cleaning out my refrigerator and I find a great deal of my space
is taken up with "use once" and forget items. How did I get here???
Here's an inventory of Chinese items followed by my collection of
pickles and olives:

Kikoman's sweet and sour sauce
" " soy sauce
" " stirfry sauce
" " teriyaki marinade/sauce
oyster flavored sauce
oyster sauce
hoisin sauce

Capers
Spanish olives
Mingling olives
Pickled cauliflower
Pitted kalamata olives
Sweet relish
Homemade cucumber kimchee
Homemade hot dills
Hot cherry peppers
Kosher dills
pepperoncini

All are marked "refrigerate after use", so there they stay.

Anyone else have this problem? - Mike

I think most people have similar collections. I wouldn't necessarily say
"once used" but I would say "seldom used". When I reach for one of these
items, I'd hate to know it's not there, or have to run out and buy it
again. Most have long shelf lives.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

Michael Horowitz said:

I'm cleaning out my refrigerator and I find a great deal of my space
is taken up with "use once" and forget items. How did I get here???
Here's an inventory of Chinese items followed by my collection of
pickles and olives:
Kikoman's sweet and sour sauce
" " soy sauce
" " stirfry sauce
" " teriyaki marinade/sauce
oyster flavored sauce
oyster sauce
hoisin sauce

Capers
Spanish olives
Mingling olives
Pickled cauliflower
Pitted kalamata olives
Sweet relish
Homemade cucumber kimchee
Homemade hot dills
Hot cherry peppers
Kosher dills
pepperoncini
All are marked "refrigerate after use", so there they stay.
Anyone else have this problem? - Mike

BTDT (been there done that)! I figgered out how to make the sweet &
sour, stirfry & marinades. Out those go. Hoisin in nice but too sweet,
out it went. "Flavored" anything ain't the real thing and probly bites,
out it goes.
Then schedule a coctail party, make caponata or tapenade with the
olives, lay out a relish tray and some nice crispy bread stuff. Maybe
bowl of stirfried stuff & rice at other end of table. TaaDa! all gone.
How do you say Cleaned Fridge Party in a foreign language so as to
appear cosmopolitan?
Edrena, still working on the perfect dill pickle

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Quoted message said:

On Thu 21 Apr 2005 03:45:21p, Marcella Peek wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Michael Horowitz said:

I'm cleaning out my refrigerator and I find a great deal of my space
is taken up with "use once" and forget items. How did I get here???
Here's an inventory of Chinese items followed by my collection of
pickles and olives:

Kikoman's sweet and sour sauce
" " soy sauce
" " stirfry sauce
" " teriyaki marinade/sauce
oyster flavored sauce
oyster sauce
hoisin sauce

Capers
Spanish olives
Mingling olives
Pickled cauliflower
Pitted kalamata olives
Sweet relish
Homemade cucumber kimchee
Homemade hot dills
Hot cherry peppers
Kosher dills
pepperoncini

All are marked "refrigerate after use", so there they stay.

Anyone else have this problem? - Mike

YES! Our fridge door and the top shelf are crammed with condiments.
Sigh....I need a good recipe that uses a bunch of them up or something.

marcella

LOL! Mix them all together and take the results to a potluck. <g>

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*

ohhhh so that's what potluck means!
egads
LOL
and yes, I have the same problem. I just tossed a ton of stuff on garbage
day this week. I don't know if it was good or bad, I wasn't about to check.

A little birdie told me that Michael Horowitz

Quoted message said:

I'm cleaning out my refrigerator and I find a great deal of my space
is taken up with "use once" and forget items. How did I get here???
Here's an inventory of Chinese items followed by my collection of
pickles and olives:

Kikoman's sweet and sour sauce
" " soy sauce
oyster flavored sauce
oyster sauce
hoisin sauce

How could you possibly live without these? And you're missing the sesame
oil and plum sauce. Get thee to the store!

Carol
--
Coming at you live, from beautiful Lake Woebegon

Michael Horowitz wrote:
<snip>

Quoted message said:

Anyone else have this problem? - Mike

Pickles and olives don't last long here. I have that problem with the
Chinese soy sauces and salty marinades - I eventually just quit buying
them except for soy sauce which I used sparingly.

-L.

Michael Horowitz said:

Anyone else have this problem? - Mike

No. I eat them. My problem is keeping these items in stock.

nb

Michael Horowitz said:

I'm cleaning out my refrigerator and I find a great deal of my space
is taken up with "use once" and forget items. How did I get here???
Here's an inventory of Chinese items followed by my collection of
pickles and olives:

My ex-wife used to call my fridge "the condiment graveyard". She
honestly was baffled that I needed so many condiments. To me, it was,
"but how do I know what I want to eat unless I know what kind of
condiment I'm in the mood for?"

Quoted message said:

Kikoman's sweet and sour sauce

Never tried it.

Quoted message said:

" " soy sauce

Use almost every day.

Quoted message said:

oyster flavored sauce

Use a lot. Just ran out.

Quoted message said:

Spanish olives
Mingling olives
Pickled cauliflower
Pitted kalamata olives

None of these four would last two days in this house.

Quoted message said:

Sweet relish

Use a lot.

Quoted message said:

Homemade cucumber kimchee

Once again, that would be SO gone in this house.

Quoted message said:

Homemade hot dills

You make your own pickles? You must marry me.

serene
--
http://serenejournal.livejournal.com
http://www.jhuger.com

Michael Horowitz <[email hidden]> wrote in
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Quoted message said:

I'm cleaning out my refrigerator and I find a great deal of my space
is taken up with "use once" and forget items.

I no longer buy mayonnaise, because I use it once and it's past it's use-by
date the next time I want it. Most other rare-use things that I buy keep
for a long time, so it doesn't matter except for the space consideration.
Sometimes I'll deliberately base meal plans on what I want to use up.

K
--
nil illegitimi carborundum

serene said:

You make your own pickles? You must marry me.

You want ANOTHER spouse? :-)

Bob

On Thu 21 Apr 2005 09:52:07p, Bob wrote in rec.food.cooking:

Quoted message said:

serene said:

You make your own pickles? You must marry me.

You want ANOTHER spouse? :-)

Bob

She's a collector! :-)

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
____________________________________________

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.
Sam Goldwyn, 1882-1974

Amarantha said:

I no longer buy mayonnaise, because I use it once and it's past it's use-by
date the next time I want it.

Heathen!

serene, who goes through a LOT of mayo
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Bob virtualgoth@die_spammer.biz said:

serene said:

You make your own pickles? You must marry me.

You want ANOTHER spouse? :-)

How do you think I got so many in the first place? With Guy, it was
popcorn through the mail. James made me vegan sushi on our first date.
The husbands around here have to keep me fed, or they're kicked to the
curb. ;-)

serene
--
http://serenejournal.livejournal.com
http://www.jhuger.com

I have enought condiments to fill the door of my fridge (you didn't
even mention jams and jellies and pancake syrup....)

The thing that about killed me was last year after hurricane isabel, we
lost power for 2 weeks. i couldnt keep stuff in the cooler for that
long, so i had to replace all that stuff. soy sauce, salad dressing,
jelly, syrup, peanut sauce, oyster sauce, sweet and sour, pickles
olives capers the whole shebang. Cost me about $100 just for the stuff
in the door.

In article said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Michael Horowitz said:

I'm cleaning out my refrigerator and I find a great deal of my space
is taken up with "use once" and forget items. How did I get here???
Here's an inventory of Chinese items followed by my collection of
pickles and olives:

Kikoman's sweet and sour sauce
" " soy sauce
" " stirfry sauce
" " teriyaki marinade/sauce
oyster flavored sauce
oyster sauce
hoisin sauce

Capers
Spanish olives
Mingling olives
Pickled cauliflower
Pitted kalamata olives
Sweet relish
Homemade cucumber kimchee
Homemade hot dills
Hot cherry peppers
Kosher dills
pepperoncini

All are marked "refrigerate after use", so there they stay.

Anyone else have this problem? - Mike

YES! Our fridge door and the top shelf are crammed with condiments.
Sigh....I need a good recipe that uses a bunch of them up or something.

Where's me old mate Sheldon when you need him? ;-)

Cheers, Phred.

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In article said:

Michael Horowitz said:

I'm cleaning out my refrigerator and I find a great deal of my space
is taken up with "use once" and forget items. How did I get here???
Here's an inventory of Chinese items followed by my collection of
pickles and olives:

My ex-wife used to call my fridge "the condiment graveyard". She
honestly was baffled that I needed so many condiments. To me, it was,
"but how do I know what I want to eat unless I know what kind of
condiment I'm in the mood for?"

[snip]

Quoted message said:

You make your own pickles? You must marry me.

serene

I'm curious. "Serene" sounds feminine. But "My ex-wife" suggests you
are male. I guess there are other options. Each to their own. ;-)

Cheers, Phred.

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Michael Horowitz said:

I'm cleaning out my refrigerator and I find a great deal of my space
is taken up with "use once" and forget items. How did I get here???
Here's an inventory of Chinese items followed by my collection of
pickles and olives:

Kikoman's sweet and sour sauce
" " soy sauce
" " stirfry sauce
" " teriyaki marinade/sauce
oyster flavored sauce
oyster sauce
hoisin sauce

Why are these refrigerated? I would never
keep these things in the fridge. Especially
soy sauce and hoisin sauce. Nor teriyaki marinade.

Quoted message said:

Capers
Spanish olives
Mingling olives
Pickled cauliflower
Pitted kalamata olives
Sweet relish
Homemade cucumber kimchee
Homemade hot dills
Hot cherry peppers
Kosher dills
pepperoncini

All are marked "refrigerate after use", so there they stay.

There are many, many things that say that that don't need
to be refrigerated. Ketchup is one. Besides being unnecessary
to refrig. it I *hate* cold ketchup! Mustard I do refrig.
because I so seldom use it.

I don't know why I refrigerate pickles. Seems to me that
shouldn't be necessary, but it's probably the same reason
I refrig. mustard, because I hardly ever use them.

However, refrigerator pickles do need to be refrig.

Kate

--
Kate Connally
“If I were as old as I feel, I’d be dead already.”
Goldfish: “The wholesome snack that smiles back,
Until you bite their heads off.”
What if the hokey pokey really *is* what it's all about?
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