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[veganmofo], spices

spices, and the vegans that love them.
i posted this in my regular journal a few months ago, just not here. apologies all around. i did however update the pictures, so there you go.

as you can see, the wall sans wallpaper and paint looks pretty terrible. some day, some day.

so, i suppose this isn't so much a "VeganMoFo post" as just a post in general. but i'm willing to bet your average vegan has many more spices than your average non-vegan. so, on with the post!


here's the view from the dining room. here you see just how little space i had to work with. eventually i'll hang my cooling racks and stuff up there too.








this wall used to be totally empty. and i had an entire cabinet to the left of the range overflowing with random bottles of spices. occasionally you'd see 2 or 3 of the same thing.

so back to the wall... i didn't think we could really use that wall for anything because there are archways on either side and steps to go downstairs on one of them. and only about 2 inches of space between the edge of the archway and the wall. we were going to build a few skinny shelves spanning the length of the wall to hold the random bottles of spices, but with my epiphany, we no longer need to do that. so. i purchased one of these beauties at kitchen kapers (for 40 bucks) brought it home, held it up to the archway/wall junction, and it was nearly perfect! of course it stuck out an inch, but it's better than nothing. i made a simple calculation, and 9 racks will fit along the length of the wall. found the kegworks website that has them for 30 bucks, ordered 8 of them.


here's an old photo from 2 months ago. the racks came with these relatively nice pre-printed labels, but not only was there not enough variety to sate my needs, the labels kept wanting to peel off, and i'm sure they would have just kept getting dirty, and then eventually shabby. so, i peeled them all off and wrote on all of them instead. it looks much nicer with the names looking all consistent and whatnot. i used a silver sharpie. works fantastically. highly recommended


here's my vast array of hot peppers.


it's already making a difference. it really was awful with everything being hard to find, and completely forgotten about.