Calling all foodies - 101 must haves in your kitchen cupboard!!!

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(just builin up our stocks to make food from scratch, and after ideas) so anything u can't live without in your cupboard

mine:

salad cream
newly discovered - olive oil
baked beans
ooh and the soup/lentils mix form asda.

feel free to add

JennyleEvil - couscous is actually made of pasta flour (although it looks like a grain) - it is pretty bland on its own, but is nice with other flavours and kids love it. I just buy the plain stuff, put it in a bowl, dot with butter and salt and pepper, and pour over boiling water (enough to cover). leave 5 mins, stir and it's ready. You can eat it plain like that (as if it's pasta/rice) or incorporate it into other dishes - hot or cold (nice mixed with roasted veggies and crumbled cheese for example)

PS slackstockmistress, Cod, Tutter - agree on the smugness - have just read my earlier post and feel a bit - didn't mean to sound like that, honest! I just love cooking and eating good food, and I'm a bit evangelical about it - sometimes I think that comes across as smug - I really don't mean to - I just wish lots of people who can't/won't cook would give it more of a try

artichoke hearts (tins)
anchovies (quality)
capers
olives - black and queen
cornichons
tomatoes (chopped)
couscous
wild rice
basmati rice
spaghetti
fusilli
baked beans (heinz) .. excellent ingredient in shepherds pie and sausage casserole
Chickpeas
canellini beans
kidney beans in chilli sauce (great ingredient for home made chilli but still need to spice as though no chilli sauce added)

onions
potatoes
garlic
butternut squash
coconut milk
frozen peas

queenmummy - Dp stirs a bit of pesto into couscous for a quick treat -very yummy

Tins - tomato, pulses, Anchovie, and various fish
Pasta - Linguine, spagetti, macaroni and fussili
Rice - Aborio, basmati, pudding
Cous cous, red and green and puy lentils
Miso, mirin, soy, fish sauce
Marmite, marmalade, honey, and golden syrup
Flour - Bread, plain and SR
Eggs, Parmesan, greek yoghurt
Bagels
various herbs and spices, stock cubes and I also like Marigold bouillin powder
Opened wine (not usual but sometimes we don't finish a bottle
Oils - Olive, extra virgin, grapeseed and walnut
Vinegar - Red, white, cider, Sherry and Balsamic (yep I really have to have all those vinegars, smug hey
Guess I better stop there in case I break the smugometer

chocolate
beer

organic condoms

Aaah Queenmummy, I'm sorry. I was only kidding, and I didn't mean to single you out.

I'll join in properly, 'cos I feel a bit guilty now.
Marigold powder
Tinned tomatoes
Balsamic vinegar
Olive oil
Pasta
Plain flour
Corn flour
Marmite
Kikkoman soy sauce
Garlic

Teryaki marinade (tastier than soy sauce)
Balsamic vinegar (could drink it out the bottle)
Geeta's Mango chutney (honestly the best)
Mixed spice - why bother with just cinnamon?
Marigold bouillon (so many blimmin veggie friends and rellies it's not worth buying meat stock)
Cake baking basics
Frozen broccoli (only veg DD eats)

Queenmummy

I mean thanks for the advice I will try it soon i think

Extra virgin olive oil
Wholegrain pasta/noodles
Brown rice (and speedy microwave sachets)
Pearl barley and red lentils - for all soups!
Tinned chickpeas, beans, tom's and braised tofu
Taifun tofu sausages - great with everything
Swiss Marigold Vegetable Bouillon
Maldon sea salt
Soya sauce
Toasted sesame oil
Sweet chilli sauce
Miso paste
Aioli
Dried herbs
Balsamic vinegar

Keep thinking of more things, so I'll stop there! Some naughties lurking too ...

ground toe of newt

"Taifun tofu sausages - great with everything "

mmm YUM

"TwigTwoolett on Monday, 23 October, 2006 6:37:33 PMartichoke hearts (tins)
anchovies (quality)
capers
olives - black and queen
cornichons
tomatoes (chopped)
couscous
wild rice
basmati rice
spaghetti
fusilli
baked beans (heinz) .. excellent ingredient in shepherds pie and sausage casserole
Chickpeas
canellini beans
kidney beans in chilli sauce (great ingredient for home made chilli but still need to spice as though no chilli sauce added) "

parp at twig

(quallity)

anchovies (quality

lol still anta nchovies wuality

is this still going on??

cod I told u the point of it at teh start, we're starting off making more from scratch, so I wanted to know in general what ppl had in their cupboards - cos i'm nosey so I can make more variety in foods etc. not to make ppl feel bad or smug they have fab things and I don't.

PMSL Cod patently doesn't cook much

just for you, dear fishy-face

anchovies are a great ingredient in pasta sauces and many other things .. particularly tomato based stuff

and if you get crap ones you may as well not add them

er i knwo what anchoviesa re
it sjuts the wat you reassure us that you DO have wuality ones!!

errrr no I was suggesting as a store cupboard ingredient that OP should get quality anchovies

you really are a pain in the anchovy sometimes

it is a bit funny

similar chickles here as i tend to the same with shopping lists - dh takes the piss

e.g.

pepsi (6-pack)
milk (semi-skimmed)
shampoo (nice-smelling)
cheese (french) (smelly)

ps queenmummy sorrey for taking the piss before

i like to have the following things, not much mind as i am only just starting out with this 'proper' cooking business!!
cous cous
canned italian chopped toms
olive oil
frozen veg
fresh mince- soooo much stuff you can use that for.
onion
cheese
baked beans
pasta
rice