A snapshot of Curees' progress from our Kitchen Cure Flickr Pool: Here are snow day pancakes from cneu, who says: "what better way to clean out the freezer? we made a nice compote/syrup out of the rest of our summer berries today...YUM." Yum indeed - a great example of clean-out-the-freezer cooking! More

This week, participants in our Spring Kitchen Cure and purging their pantries and refrigerators. Here are a few tips and helpful ideas from our archives on some of the issues that come up when delving into the depths of food storage. More

What are you listening to as you clean out your pantry and your fridge this week? Need some beats for your Kitchen Cure? Here's a peek at Kitchen Curee Swisstine's mix. She says: A mix of Q-tip, Corrine Bailey Rae, The Smiths and Snob Scrilla. More

This Week's Assignment: Clean out the fridge and pantry
Cure Clock: 1 weekend down! 3 weeks remaining
Cure Takers: 2306 and counting...

Happy Monday, Cure-takers! The first assignment of your 4-week kitchen cure is underway, and here's the spot to tell us how it went last weekend. Did you get much fridge-cleaning and pantry-clearing done this weekend? Tell us all about your first steps! More

coffeechaser's cabinets need a dusting badly!

• This Week's Assignment: Clean Out the Fridge and Pantry
• Cure Clock: Liftoff! 4 weeks remaining
• Cure Takers: 1,971 and counting...

Welcome, everyone! There are almost 2,000 of you signed up. It's like we're sitting in a giant lecture hall together. But don't worry, it's going to be cozy with lots of one-on-one attention. That's the deal with the Cure: if you participate and submit, the community will help you along. I may even show up in your inbox with some advice if you ask me point blank for help. If you're shy and want to watch from afar, that's okay too.

This week we want to start you on the path of cleaning out your kitchen.

Haven't joined yet? Join here. It's easy and free.

Read on for this week's assignments. More

Here we go — the Spring 2010 Kitchen Cure starts today! (Look for your first assignment around lunchtime.)

We're so excited to get going on this season's Kitchen Cure. We'd love to see your photos and your progress as we go. We have a Flickr group for sharing your photos on an ongoing basis, so if you've joined the Kitchen Cure, take a look at the Flickr group and please pitch in! We'd love to see your kitchen!

• The Kitchen Cure group at Flickr
• Need help? How to add your photos

Here's my kitchen from before the last Cure. Even I needed a little help.

"Your kitchen needs a cure." I make it sound like your kitchen is sick; it might be. Maybe it only needs a tune up. The majority of kitchens I see, including my own sometimes, have at the very least symptoms of chaos, disarray or atrophy.

If yours is suffering in any way, consider the Kitchen Cure to be your healer. Maybe you need rehab, or just a weekly massage. The Kitchen Cure gives you as much help as you need. Admit it, we all can use a little help. More

This is the place for all Kitchen Cure-related discussions — a free-form space for questions, answers, inspiration and links to what you're doing.

Please comment below and feel free to include links to sites where you are documenting your Kitchen Cure. We'd love to see (and share!) photos of your progress! To share kitchen photos, upload them to our Kitchen Cure Group at Flickr.

• The Spring 2010 Kitchen Cure Page
• The Kitchen Cure Flickr Group

Last week we asked you to show us just one improvement you made during this fall's Kitchen Cure. Well, we have some photos to show you of your fellow Cure-takers' success in getting their kitchens in shape — just in time for the holidays, too! Here's a peek at a few More

If you took the Fall Kitchen Cure, read on. What would make our day is if you would complete a very short questionnaire. It will help us make future Cures even better.

Plus, if you complete the survey (and we have you on record as having signed up for the Cure) by next Wednesday, November 25th at 12pm (EST), you'll be entered in a draw for one of five copies of my cookbook, The Greyston Bakery Cookbook.

Yes, I know: during the Cure we encouraged you to pare down on the cookbooks, so just consider this an offering to those who love to bake, or want to give it as a gift this year.

Click through for the questions. More