How's your fridge cleaning and pantry purging going? If you're deep into cleaning your refrigerator, you may have found a few bottles of this and that with just a smear left in the bottom. Do you scrape the last bits out, or just chuck the whole jar into the recycling?
Well, here's one great tip from Martha Stewart on getting full use out of the last little bit left in the mustard bottle.
Martha says that if you have just a tiny bit of mustard left in the jar, toss in some extra ingredients, some olive oil, and vinegar, and just shake a fresh salad dressing up right there in the jar! That way your last bit of mustard gets turned into a tangy Dijon dressing for salad, chicken, or roast vegetables.
We love the idea of shaking it right up in the jar, too; no mess, no fuss! In fact, if you have dressing leftovers you can leave them in the jar and just shake it up every time you take it out of the fridge to use it.
• No-Waste Dressing at Martha Stewart
Do you have any other good tips for putting the last scraps and drips of jam, jelly, mustard, mayo, and other fridge staples to work?
Great job to all you Curees as you clean up your kitchen, and toss out anything weighing you down this week! And even if you're not officially signed up for our Spring Kitchen Cure we hope that you'll follow along and get a bit of inspiration for freshening up your kitchen this month.
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I know there are many mixed feelings about Rachael Ray, but she has also created a few bottom-of-the jar dressing recipes, using mustard, salsa, jam, pretty much anything-- regardless of how you feel about her, it's such a smart way to use something you'd otherwise throw away!
There's the food blog famous OIAJ: oats in a jar. Put your oatmeal in an almost-empty nut butter jar to get those last bits of nutty goodness.
I like to fill an almost-empty jar of cinnamon with sugar - instant cinnamon-sugar!
Here's my comment about mustard jars--a source of great frustration! My preferred brand of coarse, spicy brown mustard from a good natural foods company suddenly changed their jars from classic bell jars to small, plastic, square-shouldered squeeze bottles which are impossible to empty more than about 2/3 of the way! So much mustard was left in the jar and under those ridiculous square shoulders, I would need to make a huge amount of salad dressing to get the right amount of mustard in it! I had to abandon the brand and look for a new one!
Hmm,a few good whacks on the counter top helps get alot of the last bits out of those plastic bottles.
that's annoying...why aren't they reading over people's comments and screening these guys out anymore?