[RTO] kitchen fresh scent
Mar. 24th, 2003 05:47 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cthulhiaConvenient ways to make your kitchen smell good.
Cooking. (baking.)
The house reeks of meat, not so much from meatloaf as from the Soup That Contained Pork, which happened while I was out last night. She describes the various ways of preparing food from fresh ingredients to make the house smell yummy. She suggests weaning yourself from the microwave because actual cooking produces much better scents. It's also significantly cheaper and healthier than most processed food and takes less time than you realize.
Aside from cooking, improve the smell of your kitchen by cleaning. She recommends fresh lemon juice and baking soda over packaged chemicals. I think I'd prefer to pay someone else to do it entirely. But, I can't afford to do that with any regularity.
She also mentions having fresh fruit out as a way of scent the area. Particularly Clementines, which seem to be the zucchini of winter. They're everywhere! I don't remember Clementines being so omnipresent before I moved to the coast, or to an urban center.
Hanging your spices outside of the spice drawer/cabinet. The clove powder (leftover from the gingerbread - and WOW did the house smell nice after that) is slightly less overwhelming now. Unlike the new peppermint candle in my room that I had to wrap up for fear that it would fade before I really needed the aromatherapy.
And, windowsill herb gardens. An abysmal failure the last time I tried, a decade ago. It's probably time to try again.
(Once again: potted plants, or helping me pot them myself. Left to my own devices, cuttings will dry up long before I manage to plant them.)
Cooking. (baking.)
The house reeks of meat, not so much from meatloaf as from the Soup That Contained Pork, which happened while I was out last night. She describes the various ways of preparing food from fresh ingredients to make the house smell yummy. She suggests weaning yourself from the microwave because actual cooking produces much better scents. It's also significantly cheaper and healthier than most processed food and takes less time than you realize.
Aside from cooking, improve the smell of your kitchen by cleaning. She recommends fresh lemon juice and baking soda over packaged chemicals. I think I'd prefer to pay someone else to do it entirely. But, I can't afford to do that with any regularity.
She also mentions having fresh fruit out as a way of scent the area. Particularly Clementines, which seem to be the zucchini of winter. They're everywhere! I don't remember Clementines being so omnipresent before I moved to the coast, or to an urban center.
Hanging your spices outside of the spice drawer/cabinet. The clove powder (leftover from the gingerbread - and WOW did the house smell nice after that) is slightly less overwhelming now. Unlike the new peppermint candle in my room that I had to wrap up for fear that it would fade before I really needed the aromatherapy.
And, windowsill herb gardens. An abysmal failure the last time I tried, a decade ago. It's probably time to try again.
(Once again: potted plants, or helping me pot them myself. Left to my own devices, cuttings will dry up long before I manage to plant them.)
