Category: General

As promised, but a day late, here are some of the best pantry storage items.  Anyone  would keep your items neat and in order.  The key is to choose one style and stick with it.  So, for example, all the baskets should be the same and all “dry” containers should be the same.  Keep items organized by purpose and type…ie all baking goods together, all cans together, rice and potatoes together, pastas together.  Cereal, flour, nuts, and other “dry goods” can be stored in plastic containers.  There should be one basket devoted to “chips and snacks”.   Happy Organizing!!!!

Here are the baskets I ordered for my pantry..I use a combo of the different sizes.


Here is another style if you like access from the front of the basket…


This is great to store cans…..


Here is another way to store cans!!!!

Another blogger used these to organize her spices….


These containers are great for cereal and pasta


This is the best storage lazy susan


I love these baskets too..and they come in a bunch of colors!!!!!


I have seen this storage container used for dry goods too……


Here is a great basket for storing fruits!!!

Ok..Here is a crowd pleaser…I made this tonight and it was a hit…It was so easy and soooo good.  I am def going to add this to my meal rotation.  I added carrots to mine FYI!!!!  Bon Appetit.

3 lbs Stew Beef (approx 1/2 lb per person)
1 carton beef stock
2 cans cream of mushroom soup
1 envelope Lipton’s onion soup mix
salt and pepper to taste
Egg Noodles (or this gluten free version)
1/2 stick butter


Put beef, beef stock, mushroom soup, onion soup mix and season with salt and pepper in your crock pot.
Set Crock Pot on High for 4 hours
When the meat is done, boil egg noodles, drain and mix with butter.
Spoon the meat over the noodles.  Serve


**** If it gets too thick add a little more beef stock but mine really didn’t

Yesterday I visited the new location of the Fairfield County Antique and Design center in Norwalk, CT.  My sponsor, Iconic Modern Home just moved with them into the new space with their own stand alone showroom and entrance..  OMG!!!! It is Fabulous…The 12,000 square foot multi dealer center (over 40 dealers total) is filled with incredible styles of art, furniture, jewelry, clothing, accessories for the home and so much more…I fell in love with EVERYTHING..it was soooooo hard to narrow it down for one post…but here is a sneak peek of the center.  I walked around for a while and I thought the selection was much better and the prices more attractive than other similar places I have been to in the past.  YOU HAVE TO GO and see this gem for yourself…for more information and directions, click HERE.

About a year and 1/2 ago I set out to make my pantry perfect.  With 3 teenagers going in and out and me looking for all my cooking ingredients daily, needless to say it stays organized for about 5 min.  I am going to embark on this project yet again and really needed some inspiration…Here is what I came up with…I love how organized these pantries are.  And, the accessories are incredible.  I am going to spend the next couple of days finding just the right items to tidy up my space.  Stay tuned for Friday’s post with my favs finds and links to purchase!!!!

Happy Martin Luther King Day!!!  WOW it’s cold in NY.    I decided to hibernate in my house with the BEST book..if you are a The Holiday or Love Actually movie fan..you are going to LOVE One Day In December by Josie Silver!!!!  I finished it in 2 nights……Here is the story:

Two people. Ten chances. One unforgettable love story.

Laurie is pretty sure love at first sight doesn’t exist anywhere but the movies. But then, through a misted-up bus window one snowy December day, she sees a man who she knows instantly is the one. Their eyes meet, there’s a moment of pure magic…and then her bus drives away.

Certain they’re fated to find each other again, Laurie spends a year scanning every bus stop and cafe in London for him. But she doesn’t find him, not when it matters anyway. Instead they “reunite” at a Christmas party, when her best friend Sarah giddily introduces her new boyfriend to Laurie. It’s Jack, the man from the bus. It would be.

What follows for Laurie, Sarah and Jack is ten years of friendship, heartbreak, missed opportunities, roads not taken, and destinies reconsidered. One Day in December is a joyous, heartwarming and immensely moving love story to escape into and a reminder that fate takes inexplicable turns along the route to happiness. – Amazon.com




For more information or to buy this book, click HERE.