So…I have animals in my house…two dogs…one cat…small house. Get the picture? I love to have people over and cook for my friends and show off my fabulous culinary skills (which is a total scam…it’s all because of the cookware…I have nothing to do with it!). People who don’t have animals notice instantly that my house may “smell” different than another house. Not a bad smell, just “animal” smell - which I am completely immune to. I love my little munchkins but I certainly don’t want to put a bad smell in someones nose when they come to visit me! I always send them on a little vacation to the back yard but what to do about the “animal smell”? One night, I was making one of my most favorite meals for a of couple friends of mine: Citrus Tilapia and Orange, Almond Basmati Rice. For the talapia, I use lemon, lime, and orange slices and of course, orange zest for the rice. So, I had my cutting board out on the counter and I had sliced up half of each of the citrus pieces, I had zested the orange into a little ramikin, and had the slices all fanned out on the cutting board and the open halves just kind of to the side. Well, one of my guests arrived early and she came in my side door which leads right into my kitchen. She immediately said, “Wow! You’re kitchen smells so clean and fresh! I would never have thought of that - and it looks so colorful!” Well…while I was certainly happy for the compliment - it took me a second to follow her gaze to where she was looking and realize she was talking about my citrus on the cutting board. As I glanced over to it, it seriously did look like a picture right of a magazine with the halves strewn about haphazardly and the slices all fanned out. The color was really amazing and all night long, everyone commented on how fresh smelling the house was. So, I’ve figured it out - I’ve started slicing up citrus peices on the cutting board about 15 mintes before people come over and it fills the whole area with this amazing fresh, clean smell and it certainly brightens up the kitchen - and not to mention is makes me look like the perfect little Simplicity Gourmet Homemaker! Martha…watch out!!!

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