How to Enjoy your own Culinary Jigsaw Mystery

The enjoyment of creating yummy meals out of soon to be rotten food can be enjoyed by all. All it takes is a few idle moments at work, an imagination, curiosity, and no fear.

When you find yourself overwhelmed by all the produce in the fridge and cannot think of a way to use it before its expiration date or worse yet--- your fridge has started to smell-- This technique is a sure fire way to 1) nurish yourself, 2) not waste anything 3) clean out your fridge and prepare it for next week's puzzle.

First Step--Open the fridge door and out waifs a pungent smell- the smell of partially or rotten food- or at a minilmum you sight a fridge full of produce bags stuffed in every corner and have an axienty attack about how you will use it all before its impending doom- a return back to nature via either the decompopsition process or the human digestive tract.

Usually, when work or life gets me down or in a fit of bordom- I lean back in my chair and start typing a list of everything in my fridge. The perfect part of this technique is that to all outside observers you are hard at work typing on the computer. Little do they know that you are planning a war on partially rotten food that lurks in the fridge. This process is somewhat like those MENSA and intelligence tests, where the instructor shows you a drawer full of objects and 10 minutes later you are asked to recall what was in the drawer. Make a list of the impending casulties in your war on wasted produce, AKA collateral damage.

Next- I start the process of putting the puzzle together. Oh those two things sound good- maybe I'll make something with them. As you go along you find the puzzle coming together. Slowly the puzzle's "picture" appears. This is the satisfying part of the process-- but satisfying yet is the consumption of the puzzle.

Then finally you have a comprehensive list of meals for the remaining of the week. Perhaps there is a loner in the bunch but if you look hard enough you will find the jagged edged puzzle piece that completes your gourmet jigsaw puzzle.

Last step - cook the puzzle

Then next week you take all the puzzle pieces, throw them in the air and you get to start all over again.