Spice, spice, spice it up!

And so I begin. The first day of my journey on the road to domestic bliss. 

This morning I woke up completely motivated to get started cookin' and tastin' and feeling immensely proud of myself for finally biting the bullet and learning to do wife-y things. I found one of the recipes I had been dying to try and as I was going through the ingredients, I opened my spice pantry to see what I already had available. 

And holy mess... 

That ladies and gents, is my disaster of a spice pantry. 

There's no way, I thought to myself, that I can legitimately start attacking some of these recipes with that disorganization. So I closed the cookbook and decided that before I could even begin, I'd have to go through the spices. 

And go through them I did. 

Fun fact: I had spices in there that expired in 2008. They expired 5 YEARS AGO! Truly a testament to how often I cook. 

So, like, 95% of my spice pantry was thrown away.  

I think I was left with a bottle of Tony's Chacheres, salt, and Pam cooking spray. 

So, I loaded up the baby and we went to Whole Foods where they sell fresh spices in bulk. Since I had a few mason jars lying around, I chose to go that route since spices can get expensive. It was definitely more cost-effective. 

Then I painted the tops of the mason jars black, painted the name of the spice that would go in it on it, and filled those suckers up. 

It's still a little bare... but it's definitely a start.