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What’s in Your Fridge Friday
Today, I’m launching a new feature on Relish Austin called “What’s in Your Fridge Friday.”
Each Friday, I’m going to post a photo of someone’s refrigerator, along with their answers to a few questions. This is open to anyone — chefs, students, home cooks, city officials, local celebrities, fellow food writers — with a fridge.
It can be full of the most lush, organic produce available in Central Texas, or it can be have just two bottles of hot sauce and a jar of mustard, like our neighbor Pat’s fridge does because he lives on sausages and boudin.
You can learn a lot about someone by looking into their refrigerator. And it’s not just personal preferences.
As you’ll see from my fridge above, we happened to have Gatorade the day this photo was taken because I’d had an upset stomach the day before. Half-eaten yogurt containers are a sign of a toddler who can’t sit still long enough to finish all four ounces. Same thing with the half-eaten apples you see in the lower right corner. Julian hasn’t learned to open the fridge yet, but it’s only a matter of days before he can start rifling through there for his favorite snack du jour (It’s peaches right now, but it looks like he’s eying the chocolate syrup in that pic.)
What three things are always in your fridge? Claussen dill pickles (Ian can eat a jar of these a day), a block of colby jack cheese and Fuji apples.
What’s your favorite condiment? It’s a tie between ketchup and Bragg’s.
Butter or margarine? I grew up on squeeze margarine, which I refuse to eat now. We’re a butter-stick-on-the-counter family now.
Now that my fridge is already done, I’ll be hitting up some people around town to let us take a peek in theirs.
But what I really want is for some of you readers to e-mail me photos (it can be any kind of photo, even just one taken with your camera phone) along with the answers to the first to questions and any other tidbit of food info you want to include.
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By Mom
June 8, 2008 2:36 PM | Link to this
I don’t use squeeze butter now, but when you are a kid, it was the easiest way to spread margarine on toast. It made you a little more independent and I got to sleep in a little longer. It became a habit and we never abandoned it until our nest was empty. Then we tried to think outside the box and make a change that was healthier. Now I’m a Smart Balance Person, but I won’t do the light version.
By Addie
June 8, 2008 5:01 PM | Link to this
Hey, Mom! I think everybody goes through food phases! Remember the GoGurt or fat-free cheese days? I can recall eating nothing but Kraft’s Italian dressing for years. Oh, and one day you’ll get revenge on me by telling everyone about my thing with tomato sauce when I was a kid.
Hope you have a great week at school!
By Lindsey
June 9, 2008 8:23 AM | Link to this
Or I could tell some people about your “thing” with tomato sauce LOL…I remember one of my birthday parties we had a Mazzios that was “ruined” (in my eyes) because Addie got her own “special” pizza!!! HA HA
By Addie
June 9, 2008 8:36 AM | Link to this
I can’t imagine the hundreds of ways my hatred of tomato sauce caused similar problems. I wouldn’t touch the stuff, not on pasta, not on pizza. No way, Jose, not one drop.
But eventually I came around, like you do about the stuff you’re picky about as a kid.
Sometime, I want to do a story on adult pickyness, the things you never get over. Nobody likes EVERYTHING, right?
By Mom
June 9, 2008 9:48 PM | Link to this
Right! Every summer I feel lonely when everyone dives into the much anticipated ice cold watermelon. Where’s MY dessert,? I ask myself. Sometimes I will try it just to see if my immature watermelon taste buds have grown. So far………nada. Maybe someday!