Although I spent a weekend (and the greater portion of last week) taking no pictures, I couldn’t miss my girl Meg’s linkup two weeks in a row.
And since my fridge does tell the story of my life, here’s my week in review, via my fridge in review.
A. Tuesday. What would my life be if I didn’t stock up on cheap old groceries? And then go out for Thai food despite just having gone grocery shopping.
B. Wednesday. I made almond milk (and by-product almond meal)! With nothing more than a Magic Bullet and old t-shirt. (Well, and almonds.) This is actually round 2, since my first attempt disappeared into err, just a few iced coffees, while the meal went into last week’s baking adventures.
C. Thursday. Leftover limes from having Heather and the man-friend over for tacos. A get-together they reciprocated by inviting me to a BBQ party to end all BBQ parties on Saturday (details of the marvelousness on Heather’s blog today).
D. Friday. Picked up my chicken CSA. Slow-cooked that sucker to perfection with onions and fresh thyme and rosemary from my herb garden. What do you do with your Friday nights?
A1, 2 and 3: Saturday. Jetted off to the farmer’s market before watching my dad and his softball team play in the Senior Olympics. Despite the fact that I bought eggs earlier in the week, I couldn’t resist farm-fresh (A1). And despite my best intentions to not not not buy vegetables (since my garden is producing out of control), I still ended up with beets (A2) which I roasted up in foil. I did get the one item I actually meant to buy–more local pimiento goat cheese (A3).
B: Sunday. I emptied the garden. Cucumbers went into a big bowl with vinegar and onion for fresh pickles. Zucchinis were eaten. Okra was eaten. And I spent all day harvesting, cleaning, steaming and freezing mustard greens after finally admitting I can’t keep up with eating them fresh.
So there you have it! My somewhat empty fridge. There is also a shelf of condiments, but all that says about me is: I really like ketchup. And y’all already knew that one…
What does your fridge say about you? What did you get into this weekend?
ForgottenBeast 
Because I’m in the middle of moving, my fridge is EMPTY. I have a loaf of bread, a package of Tofurky slices, almond milk, and mustard. Literally. Bachelor livin’!!!
Speaking of bachelor-ism, I also have a few empty, dirty tupperware containers because I keep my dishes in the fridge until I decide there are “enough” worth washing. SHHHH!!!! 😀
Haha, I love a good case of bachelor-fridge! It’s nice when you AREN’T moving, because it makes for a great time to actually clean the fridge. A feat I accomplish maaaybe once a year.
Nothing wrong with dirty dishes in the fridge–sounds like a genius lazy solution to me!
Snap about making almond milk at home! I actually just posted about it and I’m sure you’ll agree that it’s surprisingly easy to whip up! I love this twist to “Week in Review”! As for my fridge, it says that I reallllly like yogurt- there’s about 5 new tubs in there 😉
Oo, you did? I’m off to go read about your adventures! And YES, I couldn’t believe how easy it was! I was always under the impression that it was some grand, complicated process, and then BAM, I had almond milk.
I want to hear more about this almond milk-making process. I’m impressed.
My fridge says I got too excited at the farmer’s market and was craving veggies and crab meat. And kombucha.
It ended up being insanely easy, I don’t know why I was convinced it would be some huge/daunting task. And oh my gosh, it tastes SO much better than the carton stuff!
I missed the farmers market AGAIN this weekend its so hard to wake up Sunday morning but I need to! Love your fridge I do that to buy groceries and go out for food it just happens that way I guess 🙂 ketchup and mustard are my go to :-). Fridge looks like I just pulled everything out of then freezer because that’s exactly what I did for this week :-). Love and shine Courtstar
Haha, freezers DO come in handy for those weeks when grocery shopping just can’t/won’t happen.
My fridge says, “Sarah, you are moving out of this temporary squatting situation in three days, and you have four shelves of food to your roommate’s ONE. Something is wrong here.” 🙂
Um, I had local pimiento goat cheese at the farmers market last weekend and thought it was perhaps the most genius thing I had ever heard of. Apparently this is a underground trend spreading throughout the country.
I couldn’t believe my tastebuds when I first tried it. I mean, goat. Plus pimiento. It’s simply magic.
Your fridge is looking so stellar in comparison to mine. I’ve upgraded it to add a little bit of grapefruit juice, bread, and some goat milk gouda.
You can’t fight Thai food. It has a grip on all of us. You can’t say no.
Sounds like an epic BBQ.
Goat dairy products just make a fridge complete. Or so I’ll choose to believe. And I have comes to terms with the fact that no matter what tasty eats I have at home, yup, Thai food WILL always win. Curry…
My fridge says that I wish I had Your fridge!! I love that you are enjoying your home grown veggies but still supporting the community! Everything sounds good. You have been a busy girl. Personally, I could spend days in the kitchen doing things like that, if everything was working properly and I had some room!! Have a great day, Allie!
I definitely loved spending all Sunday prepping, cooking and storing! I’d make a good member of 1800s society 😉 Thanks Fran!
That is also my biggest disaster! I get so tired from food shopping that I end up ordering or eating out and never end up cooking that day. I’m going shopping today, so we’ll see what happens!
I always feel so goofy when I do it–but yeah, nothing like cooking all day to just make you want to go out to eat. And to make someone else clean up all the dishes after 😉
That has to be the cleanest actually-in-use refrigerator I’ve ever seen! GOLD STAR. I’m super jealous of your Thai food, because although we have several Thai places nearby, they’re all tragically bad. And I also think I need to make some almond milk for all the cold-brew coffee I’m planning on drinking in the next few days. Hooray!
I should compare my summer and winter fridge–in the winter that thing’s a packed-full disaster. When I have my garden and fresh goodies in the summer? Nothing seems to linger in there long. And that is too disappointing about the Thai food! I am an absolutely sucker for it, and the best place in town also happens to be just five minutes from my house. Delicious times. Let me know if you try making almond milk! It is so simple, and homemade is just MEANT to go in coffee!
Ah the one thing I don’t like about living in London is the thought of never having a garden and growing my own veggies! My weekly tradition is to clean the house on Friday nights, so I’m way cooler than you haha 😉
Haha, I WISH that was my Friday routine! Instead, I made a mess. But it was all in the name of food prep, so it’s all good, right?
Hah! Is it weird that I love seeing what is in people’s fridges? And I LOVE the Manager’s specials at Kroger 😉
Not weird at all–I love it too…and love posting my own fridge, so at least I’m not completely a voyeur 😉
I want to hear more about this almond milk!
It was so easy! Pretty much just look up any almond milk recipe, and then just cut out all the steps except “blend and filter.” Done!
Haha Interesting post 🙂 My fridge doesn’t say anything about me because I share it with 4 other people (my fam). So my food is sufficated by all of my dad’s crap (processed food), kgs of my dad’s yogurts, all of my grandma’s meat. I barely have any space 😦
Hey, that DOES say something–you’re good at sharing! And making smarter food choices than some of the people you live with!
So you beat me to the punch on the almond milk which is totally cool because I’m stealing that used shirt for a cheese cloth idea.
By the way, I love fridge in review. I’m always fascinated by the fridges of others…and grocery carts too.
For the mustard greens, blend them with a little water, add to ice cube trays, freeze and then you can add cubes to future smoothies….like winter time smoothies, which you will drink in the shower. Idea is courtesy of Madison at Eating For Balance.
Old shirt=Free AND environmentally conscious! Reduce, reuse, recycle!
And I love that idea for saving greens, would have been SO much easier than my whole steaming-freezing-bagging process.
Next round.
I love the fridge in review! I also happen to think your Friday night sounds fabulous 😉 (as long as there was wine involved while the chicken did his thing…)
I’ve been meaning to try my own almond milk… mainly because I have a ton of almonds… and your success gives me encouragement to try it myself sometime soon!
I’m not even going to comment on your overwhelming abundance of produce because I am extremely jealous and stubborn like that (and totally missing the garden at our old house). 🙂
Definitely give making almond milk a try! I’d seriously been putting it off for years, thinking it was some huge/impossible task, but it was really easy! And oh man, there SHOULD have been wine involved. Next time!
I live for cheap groceries!! The second I see that sale sign all hell breaks loose and I have to make sure my bladder is empty when I get excited. HAH ok just kidding, but you get the idea. I NEED to make my own almond milk, this is the second blog in two days that I have seen homemade almond milk. YUM! My fridge says either A. I eat like a college kid, except with veggies and quinoa instead of mac and cheese and hot dogs (meaning I keep my stock pretty low to ensure I don’t spoil a lot) B. I like to grocery shop which is why I keep things low. or C. I am a veggie and chocoholic..and they hopefully balance each other out.
Hmm, what does my fridge say about me? That I have a serious problem when it comes to condiments…that I hoard Greek yogurt (especially the free kind mailed to me by Chobani)…and that I eat more veggies in one week than a family of four! Yeah, pretty proud of that last one…I think it makes the shame of the first one a little better actually! 😉
I’ve seriously been dreaming of that cucumber and onion salad since you had us over for tacos (thanks again by the way!)…those were some of the best cucumbers I’ve ever tasted! Oh, and now I want some pimento cheese!