What's In Your Fridge?

[BerryBaby]

What ten items are always on-hand in your fridge? You know, the ones you couldn't live without?

Here are mine:

1. milk 2. butter (both salted and unsalted) 3. eggs 4. champagne 5. white wine 6. capers 7. lots of different salad greens 8. cheese (of all varieties) 9. condiments 10. bacon or proscuitto

[Food Network Fan]

Milk
eggs
butter
peppers
lots of cheese
tube of tomato paste
anchovy paste
fruit of some kind, right now it's pineapple
salsa
carrots

[ibcheft]

1. Butter salted and unsalted
2. Mayonnaise
3. Milk
4. Multiple cheeses
5. olives, black and green
6. lettuce multiple varieties
7. Onions, red, sweet, and green
8. Peppers, green, red, jalapeno, pepperoncini
9. Celery
10. Bacon (knew I was forgetting something)
There's my list, would have to include tomatoes, but here lately haven't had any.

[chefboyrdavid]

1. milk
2. butter
3. spinach...baby, or bagged. instead of lettuce we eat spinach. but also some lettuce!
4. beer...for cooking and drinking! I have guiness extra stout right now!
5. fruit, usually 2 different kinds
6. wine, red and white!
7. condiments of many kinds! including the new tuscan house italian by kraft..its awesome! and jack daniels mustard!
8. lots-o-cheese
9. tomatoes
10. peppers...bell, chipotle, many others!

[bakerman]

1. milk
2. Orange Juice
3. cheese
4. butter (the real stuff, and smart balance)
5. Mayonnaise
6. eggs
7. wine for cooking (not much of a wine drinker)
8. yogurt
9. bacon
10. ????????????????

I keep a pretty lean fridge. I work in a grocery store so I buy my fresh produce and use it that day so it doesn't usually go into the fridge.

MAC

[BerryBaby]

Wow, two of you said you refrigerate your tomatoes? I was always told never to refrigerate them....and red wine?

I never put my reds in the refrigerator. Although, at one of our wine meetings, they said you can refrigerate an unopened bottle for thirty minutes before serving. I've never done that.

Maybe Michael has the answer on this one. Do you cool off your reds, or serve them room temperature?

[chefboyrdavid]

OK well the red wine i keep in there is strictly for drinking and its reunite Lambrusco its supposed to be cold!....
oh and as for the tomatoes i only refrigerate them after i slice them!...thats if I'm slicing them!

[Sukie]

Top ten in fridge:
1. milk
2. oj
3. eggs
4. butter and smart balance light
5. cheese (block, sliced, sticks)
6. wine
7. salad stuff (lettuce, onion, peppers, cukes, celery)
8. fruit (right now plums, peaches and rasberries)
9. lunch meat
10. condiments

[fiction]

1. mustard (dijon, spicy brown, honey mustard... yum!)
2. ketchup
3. carrots
4. milk
5. tofu
6 mayonnaise (It's always in there because it's been the SAME JAR forever. I HATE mayo, but bought it once to make egg salad for a friend.)
7. beer (always Miller Lite and usually a local Northern California microbrew.)
8. flax seeds (cause "oils spoil" right Rachael Ray?)
9. salsa
10. pickles (do pickles spoil?)


I try to buy fresh, so I have a minimal fridge too (that is, besides my condiments and long-lasting produce!)

PS: BerryBaby- I LOVE that champagne is a fridge staple. As it should be!

[Chefnot]

I always frig my tomatoes and considering recent events, I think it to be a good idea.