New culture of bacteria found in my fridge!

I did it guys. I took the plunge and excavated my fridge because I bought GROWN UP GROCERIES!!

That's right, Casey is turning a new leaf (is this still considered the New Year???). I spent 2 hours at Kim's Club and bought:

• Beef
• Chicken
• Lemon juice AND lime juice, soy sauce, black pepper, basil, pine nuts
  
• Cranberries
• pesto
  
• yogurt
• spaghetti
• HEINZ FRIGGIN 57!!!!! I literally jumped for joy when I saw this
• spinach. That's right. I bought spinach!

Notice there is an absence of cereal, ramen noodles, or any kind of junk food. I don't think this has ever occurred in a purchase before... (actually I'm omitting the beef jerky bites purchase because it was economical, 1 plus 1 (as they like to call the 2 for 1 deal in Konglish)).

Now here's the challenge that I'm giving you. Look at these ingredients and tell me what kind of meal I can make with all this stuff. The winner will receive my eternal respect and adulation.

With all of my new found treasures, I had to make space in my fridge for my food. Which meant that after all these months of growing fur that would make PETA proud, it was finally time to chuck:

• The freezer burned strawberries and onion skin I kept in the freezer to prevent from getting more moldy than they already were
• The grayish fuzzy salami that I hid away in my vegetable crisper (because, well, if you know me, I would never USE a crisper for its actual intended use)
• the two packages of green and black (once orange!) blocks of cheddar I stuffed behind my bucket of bacon grease
• My can of Philadelphia green/cream cheese
• milk (won't even tell you what came outta that carton)
  

Why I Need a Dish Washer

I'm so lazy, I haven't done my dishes in forever... I make sure mold doesn't accumulate by at least running fresh water over my dishes everyday. However, I always think, I'll do it "tomorrow" because I know I'll use another cup/dish/spoon/chopstick and it would suck to just have to wash one cup/dish/spoon/chopstick by itself.

Oh and I'm cheap too. I don't want to use dish soap on just one cup/dish/spoon chopstick.

Today, I wiped the Spam grease out of my frying pan with kleenex (I'm also too cheap and lazy to go buy paper towels at the 7-11 down the street) so that I could make ddokbokki. Now I have a caked frying pan with ddokbokki sauce.

I miss having my dishwasher in the Venue... at least I could hide the dirty dishes from sight.

I'll do it tomorrow

So far, I've done pretty well with keeping my place tidy. I attacked my closet, bed, and bathroom when I first moved in. But I haven't been able to lift a finger when it comes to the kitchen.

I've even bought disposable bowls and cups so I don't have to wash anything or put anything away. Yes, not environmentally friendly, I know.

Several reasons why I haven't been able to tackle the kitchen yet:

1. There's food that was left over from the previous teacher, some of it I want to chuck but then there's stuff like salt and seasonings. I don't want to sort and separate.
2. The dishes and silverware sitch isn't very good. I don't want to throw anything away though until I can buy the proper stuff at E-Mart when I get my next paycheck.
3. No garbage disposal in the sinks over here... They use a sink basket that collects all the stuff that isn't water. Haven't found a sink basket to replace it and I don't want to touch anything in the sink that isn't mine... Like someone else's hair in the bath drain... BLECH, puke.
4. Not having any food to cook makes it easy to feel like you don't have to clean anything.

So I asked Mikey Teacher how I can get over all these objections and just clean the damn kitchen, to which he replied:

Mike: Best way to attack it is to make a big mess all over everything, like throw a jar of spaghetti sauce against the wall. Something that's impossible to live with. Then you HAVE to clean it all.

Makes sense, right?