Starting Fresh

Since we had to completely start fresh with new food from the death of our last kitchen refrigerator we decided to clean out the garage fridge/freezer. We have had this appliance for so many years. It might be as old as Carter. We bought it at Sears. It was branded as a “Gladiator,” meant to be put in the garage or man cave because it had this tough looking exterior. I wish they still made this line. They had garage cabinets to match, but we couldn’t afford them back then.

The beauty of the gladiator was that it was one of the first “convertible” refrigerators. That does not mean that you could put the top down. The bigger section on the bottom is a freezer, the smaller section on the top could be a freezer or a refrigerator. It is the perfect extra refrigerator because we mostly needed more freezer space and we used the top as a place to keep drinks cold.

My problem is things go in the freezer and they don’t always get eaten. So we cleaned out all the old containers of soup and stock and cleaned the inside as if it were in a hospital. We were only able to do this so completely because we moved anything frozen that we wanted to keep up to the new freezer.

Russ did all the horrible work. What would I do without him? Now we are working on not collecting leftovers and eating what we have already made. Last night I made Salad Nicoise with salmon. I had leftover green beans and boiled fingerling potatoes so tonight I made lemon chicken with potatoes and green beans, we only ate half of it so we will have the same thing tomorrow. No leftovers. Carter is never going to believe this.