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Store cupboard essentials - what are yours?

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numptysmummy · 16/01/2008 10:48

I cook,obviously,but i've never been one to use cookbooks etc. Now i'd like to start proper cooking but i need to get myself set up a bit. What do you all have in your cupboards? Like chinese food,traditional and fancy having a go at baking - how hard can it be??

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happystory · 16/01/2008 11:01

olive oil
tinned tomatoes
pulses
rice (various)
chick peas
flour (various)
sugar (various)
herbs and spices
nuts and seeds
vinegar
seasoning

If you've got the above and add meat and/or veggies, the sky's the limit!

morningglory · 16/01/2008 11:12

Baking: (I bake my own bread, and make my own pasta)
Flours:Wholemeal strong flour, Granary flour, Spelt Flour, "00" flour, White strong flour
Quick yeast
Sodium Bicarbonate
Baking powder
Valrhona dark cooking chocolate
Sugars: Demerera sugar, Caster sugar, Muscavado sugar (dark and light), Golden Syrup, honey (manuka and ordinary), maple syrup

Cooking (cupboard):
Oriental: Soy sauce, mirin, fish sauce, sriracha, yuzu, sesame seeds, oyster sauce, ketchup manis
Oils: blended olive oil, good extra virgin olive oil, sesame oil, rapeseed oil, goose fat
Vinegars: aged balsamic, normal balsamic, rice wine, red wine, sherry, white, cider
Salt: fleur de sel, maldon, ordinary sea salt
Condiments: worcestershire sauce, heinz tomato ketchup, tabasco sauce, dijon mustard, english mustard, wasabi, hellman's mayo, onion confit
assortment of dried and fresh herbs and spices

Perishibles:
onions (red and white), shallots, ginger root, spring onions, carrots, celery, garlic

Dried/Tinned:
Pasta: tagliatelli, spaghetti, fusili, wide rice sticks, soba, spaetzle, sushi rice, jasmine rice, brown basmati rice, quinoa, couscous
Tins: various beans, tuna in olive oil, anchovies, plum tomato, artichoke hearts, coconut milk
Jarred tomato sauce
Misc: wakami, light miso,breadcrumbs (panko and ordinary)

Alcohols: dry sherry, port, sake, marsala, noilly prat, red and white wines

morningglory · 16/01/2008 11:15

forgot:

eggs, milk, frozen peas, frozen sweet corn, pancetta (frozen), stocks (chicken, beef, vegetable), frozen puff pastry, frozen shortcrust pastry, butter (demi-sel and unsalted)

bundle · 16/01/2008 11:17

agree re: katchup manis, can't manage without it now!

numptysmummy · 16/01/2008 15:56

Blimey - v comprehensive! Can arm myself with a list next time i go shopping. Thanks

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