Tuesday, May 28, 2019

Regaining My Sanity with Zippy Bags

Do normal people still have kitchen canisters on their counters?  We have a set that we keep in a big drawer, ostensibly to keep the counter looking tidy, but mostly to keep all the stuff like flour and sugar together in the "baking ingredients" drawer.  They're not labelled, and when we moved into our current space, I was three months pregnant with Kiddo and too tired to care, so Fuzzy filled them.  I have been going through a cycle for the last nine years of completely losing my mind in frustration every time I bake, then promptly forgetting about the issue, then completely losing my mind the next time.

Because Fuzzy doesn't bake from scratch, he really didn't think too hard when he filled the canisters.  He did it in order of what we had at that moment.  Therefore, the brown sugar went into the big canister.  Am I completely out of line thinking that everyone who has kitchen canisters puts flour in the big canister, sugar in the next one down, and so forth?  He put flour in the smallest canister and powdered sugar in the next one up, so I always have to put some on my finger and lick it like I'm a narcotics officer on TV to be sure I'm not about to screw up my cheese sauce.

I finally just forced myself to stay in the kitchen while the blondies baked on Sunday and emptied all the canisters into zippy bags and washed all the canisters.  Tonight, I'm going to refill them and label them.  I know the two smaller canisters are for coffee and tea, but since we don't drink coffee and do tea in bags, I'm making those two powdered sugar and brown sugar.  It's hardly domestic-goddess-level stuff, but I feel better about myself.

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