Fridge-o-Meter
One of the best things about my week has been these amazing sunflower sprouts I got at the farmers market. There are at least two camps where sprouts are concerned--the one which vehemently protests against their underside-of-the-lawnmower likeness, and the one I'm in. The one that can't get enough. I'm lusting after a sprouting kit, but where would I put it?! I triumphantly brought home a pressure cooker from a garage sale recently. I adore it (more on that later), but we might actually have to store it outside or build a separate little shed for it. I console myself that our carbon footprint is currently very small.
But back to the sprouts. They are big, crunchy, glossy, grown with care locally and organically. And everyone else in my household is in the sprout-hating camp, so I can have them all to myself. Driving home from the market, I fantasized the whole way about how I'd enjoy them. This is the Fridge-o-Meter at work. I mentally run through all the bits in my fridge the way some women visualize their closets. I remembered that I had some cream cheese, and I knew there was a jar of big green olives with pimentos somewhere in the back of the fridge. Throw a brick of cream cheese in the food processor, add 10 olives, whiz it for 20 seconds, spread it on a piece of whole wheat toast, top with as many sprouts as possible before the whole thing topples over. Ding-ding-ding-ding!! The Fridge-0-Meter strikes again. It doesn't take much around here.
July 28, 2010
Reader Comments (6)
I keep seeing those things at the Wallingford farmers market and am intrigued by them. Since you and I seem to have similar tastes, I'm sure I would like them. I love the Fridge-o-Meter! Periodically I am surprised by things in mine - like 2 jars of pickled ginger that have been hanging out on the door that I seem to not notice. But yes, I take mental inventory often. How about cottage cheese with these guys??
Very "old school", olives, pimentos and cream cheese!
These would make great crostini for company with nice little toasts and those beautiful sprouts!
Sarah--I know there are other sprouting kits that don't take up much room and I've used a great resource website: www.gnowfglins.com You can find so many sprouting stuff there (sprouting like what you bought and even sprouting seeds & grains for flour).
One of the many things I love about you and this blog is your unabashed joy in the simplest of things. So glad you are sharing this with us.
i love you and sprouts. but not equally.
I have a litle sprouting box and I didn't like it much. I found I prefer sprouting in a quart-sized canning jar. You can use a sprouting lid, which is great, or you can even use a piece of pantyhose with a rubberband around the top, and that works fine, too.