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pantry
7 posts
Tomato Butter Pasta in Fifteen Minutes
A tin of tomatoes, a lot of butter, and one onion you throw away at the end. It is the shortest good pasta sauce there is.
White Bean Stew with Lemon and Dill
Two tins, a lot of olive oil, and enough lemon to make it taste like a decision rather than a fallback.
A Pot of Chickpeas Worth the Soak
Dried chickpeas, cooked with an onion and a lot of olive oil, are a different ingredient from the tinned kind. Once a week is enough.
Marinated Olives and Warm Almonds
Two bowls, one pan, and a fifteen-minute job you can do three days in advance. The almonds are the ones people remember.
The Pantry That Makes Dinner Possible
Twelve things that turn whatever is in the fridge into a meal. Not a shopping list of ambitions — the shelf I actually reach for on a Tuesday.
How to Buy Olive Oil Without Being Fooled
Four things on the label that tell you something, and five that are marketing. It takes thirty seconds in the aisle and it changes half of what you cook.
The Spices Worth Buying Whole
Six jars that do most of the work in this kitchen, why they are bought as seeds rather than powder, and the two-minute habit that makes them taste like something.
