Reorganizing the Pantry

There’s something about January that signifies a new beginning. I don’t wait until spring to clean out things, I do it the first month of the year.

Where do you store your cookbooks? Mine were kept in the living room behind doors in a cabinet. The more I thought about it the more I wanted to streamline them and have them in the pantry. It makes sense to have them where you store your food, it’s all right there. Every time I step into the pantry I’ll see these cookbooks and be drawn to pull one down and create a new recipe.

This is the time to clear out the pantry, wipe down the shelves, check expiration & best used by dates on items and make everything look neat and tidy.

It never ceases to amaze me how things can get misplaced or migrate to other shelves in the pantry, but they do. Now it’s all tidy and ready for me to create something new.