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i discovered some time back that smaller peeled chunks of ginger in a garlic press will yield ginger juice, which is great for recipes where you want the flavor without the chunks, or instead of powdered in a pinch (but be careful, it's flavor is pretty concentrated!)

sweet! fingers and toes crossed...

knifelust

a dansk pot whose lid, I believe, was meant to be used as a trivet!

i use the 4:1 ratio like the container says, but i use coconut water for the liquid and use the overnight method. just before going to bed i bring liquid to a boil, stir in the oats, cover tightly and remove from heat. the next morning i reheat however much i need and store the rest for later in the week. my kids love this, and the coconut water gives the oats a sweet creaminess and 20 times the potassium of an added banana!

reminds me of the angry gangs of keep left signs from monty python

We moved back in July and I had to be out of town the week before. We'd hired movers but my mother-in-law decided to "help" by hand-packing the kitchen and moving it herself in advance so we'd be more settled on moving day, going so far as to unpack where she thought things "best belonged." Things she didn't recognize or that looked like "junk" she either shoved back into boxes or threw out. I never had a chance to build the space the way I wanted, I and nearly ten months later I still can't locate some items.

I've tried to reorganize things in sections, tried to decide on best locations, but I realize I don't know how to plan this space. We have a fairly large rotating corner cabinet that has been alternately home to boxes and dry goods, baking tins, and pots and pans - nothing seems to work there. Arguments (loving) have been had over the best location for glassware. Is there a logical way to go about laying out a kitchen, and perhaps a good system for unraveling the havoc that my mother-in-law managed to inflict on my kitchen? What sort of things work best in drawers as opposed to cabinets? What goes in that pull-out drawer under the oven? That's what I need.