Posted: 11/6/2013 2:12:53 AM EDT
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How about we share some food storage ideas. Here is one that helps me keep produce useable for weeks. For cilantro I cut off the stems that are usually wet and bundled together. Then I spread out the leaves on paper towels to let them air dry for a couple hours. Then I wrap them loosely in a paper towel and but them back in the produce bag. Cilantro will keep for a couple weeks this way. The last pictures shows two red peppers wrapped in a paper towel and then back in their bag. Peppers will often keep like this for a month or so.    |
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Get a couple boxes of those large black "paper" clips used in offices and use them to seal up bags of all sorts. They are cheaper, hold better, and are more useful than the "chip clip" things. Likewise, transfer to those "disposable" tupperware containers. Nuts, chips, cereal, jerkey... anything dry that might go stale. Green onions like to be dry in the fridge, leave the bag open a little bit. Water collecting is what makes them go bad fast. Cilantro is always a pain in the ass to keep around. Look in the produce section for a toothpaste tube looking thing full of herbs. I use garlic, cilantro, tomato paste, ginger, and lemon grass. Some I have had over a year and they still taste fine. MORE THAN makes up for the price in thrown away fresh herbs and tastes nearly the same. (I.e. unless it's used as a garnish then no one will notice) Turn the spinach bag upside down (so the wording is upside down) and shake it a bit to 'fluff' the leaves. The pressure of the stuff on top is what causes it to start to rot. Bagged spinach will last much longer then. Same with the stuff in the big plastic carton. Keep all oils in a closed cabinet to keep them in the dark. Light is one way oils go rancid fast. If you can, buy olive oil in a metal container and parcel it out into a dispenser. Those little spritz bottles work really well for olive oil. They also work for vinegar, white vermouth and any time you bake and have to soak something in brandy / rum. Note however those things sometimes have a bare metal spring in the path, get the expensive ones that have a plastic sealed spring or a "top press" type not a "trigger" type.
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