{"id":48250,"date":"2021-11-10T19:01:01","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T19:01:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/?p=48250"},"modified":"2021-11-10T19:39:41","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T19:39:41","slug":"machina-inspiration-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/machina-inspiration-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Food ex Machina: Inspiration from Cleaning your Fridge"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you are a regular reader of my contributions to this blog, you will remember the time that I explained how important frozen vegetables were in my life simply because I always forget about the fresh food slowly dying in my fridge as I pick up some McDonald\u2019s on the way home. Well, dear reader, this is the flip side of the coin. Instead of an analysis of how I combat gross fridge syndrome by using freezer space, this is how I try to make the most of my fridge clean-outs when they must happen.<\/p>\n

As much as I criticize myself for forgetting about food and letting my vegetables resent me, the reality is that I don\u2019t do it that much<\/em>. I get quite prickly about cleanliness in my house \u2013 and the fridge is no exception to this instinct. I don\u2019t like to have a nasty fridge, so I try to clean it out every once in a while. When I do, it always leaves me with a bit of inspiration.<\/p>\n

Those peppers in the crisper that are looking a little soft? How about we fry \u2018em up and add them to a quesadilla? The zucchini that was stuck at the back a week ago? Maybe we can chop it up and make them into some healthy zucchini fries!<\/p>\n

Soup Fridge Dumps<\/h3>\n

And, well, a soup blog wouldn\u2019t really be complete without a soup recommendation, would it? Minestrone is a delicious soup that is more than accepting of any type of vegetable, legume, or even meat that you want to throw in there. The actual recipe for Minestrone<\/a> requires that there be no set recipe (how\u2019s that for chaotic?), as long as it has pasta and vegetables in it. Some Italian food authors say that beans must <\/em>be involved for it to be \u2018genuine\u2019\u2026 but that kind of thinking goes for just about every Italian dish<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Ready to make a “Fridge-Dump” soup?
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Another option for re-using old and wilting vegetables is the adorably named \u2018Bubble and Squeak<\/a>\u2019 dish from English cuisine. Unsurprisingly, dishes that try to capitalize on making something new out of old food come from a peasant\/serf tradition, where poverty dictated how one could cook food without wasting. Bubble and squeak, a traditional peasant food of fried potatoes and cabbage, can incorporate any number of vegetables to add to the flavour and nutrition of the dish.<\/p>\n

Of course, there is also the positive aspect that a good deep fridge clean will finally force you to confront the harsh reality that the old, sticky bottle of barbeque sauce that you got in Kansas City 7 years ago might actually have the be thrown out now. You\u2019ll be left with a clean, organized fridge, a meal or two from what you scavenged, and a new sense of domestic pride in your kitchen!<\/p>\n

I always feel inspired, creative, and energized when I clean out my fridge, but what about you? What\u2019s the most creative way you averted food going bad in your fridge? Let me know below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cleaning the fridge doesn’t mean wasting food. Let Simply Souperlicious’ Tayla Blaire show you ways to turn your fridge trash into fridge treasures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121,"featured_media":48218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_aioseo_title":"","_aioseo_description":"Cleaning the fridge doesn't mean wasting food. Let Simply Souperlicious' Tayla Blaire show you ways to turn your fridge trash into fridge treasures.","content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[637,636,535,359,384,395,495],"class_list":["post-48250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soup_and_soul","tag-fridge-clean","tag-fridge-dump","tag-pizza","tag-soup","tag-soup-and-soul","tag-soupsoul","tag-tayla-blaire"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/121"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48250"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48250\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48328,"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48250\/revisions\/48328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/simplysouperlicious.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}