A Well Organized Pantry and Appaloosa Beans

My kitchen cabinets are 1970's wood, very small with limited storage.  I do however have this one nice large pantry which holds all of our food products, storage bowls, glass mixing bowls and bakeware. 

I spent yesterday adding more jars of beans.  Earlier last week I ordered some from Purcell Mountain Farms and they arrived yesterday. 

I am cooking some of their Appaloosa Beans now with some chicken sausages from Trader Joe's.  I think that will be a yummy dinner for tonight with some cornbread.  I also purchased Anasazi, Pinto, Cannellini, Cranberry, Black Turtle, Red Chief Lentils and Split Green Peas. 

I love that so many of these beans are named after horse breeds.  Maybe we should dress for dinner, cowboy hats and boots?

I thought I would share my small, but I think, well organized pantry with you.  I am attempting to eliminate most, if not all of the plastic containers I use for storing.  I have a large amount of canning jars and I also save nice jars from foods I buy.  The Ball Wide Mouth  jars work out well for the beans and all sorts of dry goods.  You can find these jars at thrift stores also. 

"To invite a person into your house is to take charge of his happiness for as long as he is under your roof."

_Anthelme Brillat-Savarin