First of all – let me just say that mov­ing over 1,000 miles will NOT be an option.  It took about 3 weeks of unpack­ing and lug­ging HUGE boxes around the new abode to find my pots at the BOTTOM row of boxes.  And, to make things worse – I’m still look­ing for things here and there.  I fig­ure I have about 10 boxes or so I need to fin­ish going through and then I can move onto reor­ga­niz­ing the den which is cur­rently known as “Mov­ing Box Cen­tral”.   The amount of boxes I’ve had to break down has been insane.

So, 3 weeks of take out, deliv­ery and micro meals does not make a happy food blogger. 

Before I left, my friends came over and kicked my butt into mov­ing over­drive.  SL, Jay & Kar helped me box up the hell known as my kitchen and also helped take a bunch of things off my hands – specif­i­cally my pantry and liquor cab­i­net; both of which were not com­ing with.  SL now has a spice cab­i­net to die for loaded with some seri­ous good­ies like truf­fle oil, meyer lemon oil, cof­fee and good­ies shipped from the Ital­ian Mar­ket.  Heck, since I could go to the Ital­ian Mar­ket on Sat­ur­days, I could replen­ish it – right?  How­ever, one thing I haven’t been able to find is my cre­ole sea­son­ing – for some rea­son they just don’t seem to have that here.  I’m hope­ful that maybe Whole Pay­chex or Trader Joe’s might have or else I’m call­ing SL to ship some to me stat. 

I can say that my kitchen is MUCH big­ger in terms of counter space and, while I don’t have an island, I might just not need it.  And, now that the pans have been located, I’ve been get­ting back my cook­ing mojo.  Won’t my neigh­bors be thrilled   The pantry is a bit smaller so it’s going to mean I’m going to have to find some new ways to keep every­thing mov­ing along.

Now please excuse me while I make plans to have yet another run to Crate & Bar­rel in the morn­ing for more spice jars and a few more orga­niz­ing ideas so I can actu­ally have this kitchen run­ning smoothly.  Oh, and so I can make room for the *ahem* new good­ies com­ing from RueLaLa from the Cal­phalon sale… *shhhh* just don’t tell anyone.