Believe it or not, it wasn’t until I’d been living away from home a couple of years that I started to stock my kitchen cupboards with things like flour, rice and stock. I pretty much lived off pasta and strirfrys and as for baking? Nuh uh. The one time I ever tried to make a cake, I managed to produce this beautiful tri-coloured marble cake – rock hard on the outside and rubbery on the inside. It was in no way edible, even by the lowest standards. I was SO disappointed; I’d spent over an hour mixing ingredients and painstakingly layering the colours. Sigh.
Now, at least, I can manage super basic cakes/muffins/biscuits. And we now have staples on hand which means if we haven’t planned out a specific meal, chances are we’ll still be able to whip up something for dinner. Not like the good old days…
On any given week, you’ll pretty much find in our cupboards:
-rice
– pasta
– beef and chicken stock
– flour
– sugar
– tomatoes
– corn
– eggs
– onions
– soy sauce
– chili powder
– curry powder
…and potatoes. It may be the poor man’s food, but I can’t get enough of them! Fries, chips, roasted, mashed, boiled, hash browns…I love them in all their varieties.
We’re also working on expanding our spice collection (currently stands at less than 10, due to the fact each jar costs almost $5. We picked a buy-one-get-one-free voucher from one of those instore demonstrators last week though, which was neat).
Am I missing anything? Should I be buying other things that I just never realised I can’t live without?
Potatoes are AMAZING. You can make so many different recipes with them and honestly, they taste GOOOOD!
Lately I’ve been keeping bread and canned tuna in stock as well, for the beginnings of a really good sandwich.
And potatoes are absolutely my favorite food!