What ingredient can't you do without?

angelicmary85

Evening All!

I'm wanting to stock up the kitchen cupboards with stuff I can use to make other stuff

Although I use a SC and make soup, I want to start making alot more things from scratch but I don't know what base ingredients I should have at home (porridge oats to bulk out mince? Flour to make sure there's always something to help thicken my creations? 5 different kinds of stock cubes? jars/tins of tomatoes?)

All of your replies will be most welcome!

Mr_Lahey

Rice vinegar, red/white wine vinegars, balsamic vinegar, light/dark soy sauce, tabasco sauce, worcester sauce, sesame oil, olive oil, rapeseed (vegatable) oil. All the stocks in cubes (chicken, lamb, beef, fish, veg)

Garlic, onion, basil, thyme, rosemary, parsley, corriander and a few root veg and eggs & butter.

Always have meats available like Braising steak, mince, chicken breast etc

Then all the baking stuff like light/dark brown sugar, caster sugar, granulated, self raising/plain flour, baking powder, corn flour, and a few extracts like vanilla etc.

As for one ingrediant i can't do without? Well im sorry it must be 2, garlic and onion, i can do so much with those two as a base!

freesoul_2

cocoa,baking powder,dark chocolate,self raising flour,fast action yeast,(yep i love baking cakes!)ground cinnimon,selection of dried herbs.

Dried/frozen fruit, dessicated coconut, mascapone cheese, and my favourite fresh ginger.

Mr_Lahey

freesoul wrote: »

cocoa,baking powder,dark chocolate,self raising flour,fast action yeast,(yep i love baking cakes!)ground cinnimon,selection of dried herbs. I will post more as they come to mind.

Forgot about yeast!

freesoul_2

Mr_Lahey wrote: »

Forgot about yeast!

May i ask why??

jexygirl

garlic onion salt and pepper! herb wise, thyme rosemary, sage, oregano, and then tomatos / tomato paste. I reckon from these there are a miriad! these are my main mainstays!
Great thread
Jex

Butterfly_Brain

Hope this helps
In my cupboard I have:
BAKING
Plain flour, SR flour, Bread flour, Cornflour, Dried Yeast, Baking Powder, Bicarb, Cream of Tartar, Suet, Maple Syrup, Golden Syrup, Black Treacle
Caster Sugar, Brown Sugar, Icing sugar
Sultanas, Currants, Raisins, Cherries
Nuts - Walnuts, Mixed Nuts,Pecan Nuts, Flaked Almonds and Ground Almonds, Porridge Oats
Cocoa, Dessicated Coconut, Birds Custard powder,
All sorts of essences and food colours, Fondant Icing, Marzipan
Caraway Seeds, Mixed Spice Cinnamon, Nutmeg, Vanilla pods etc
Jams, Marmalade, Honey, Peanut Butter and Mincemeat

I do a lot of Baking as you can see:rotfl:

Savoury
Tomato puree, Garlic puree, Sundried Tomatoes Lots of Herbs and Spices, Cider Vinegar, Red Wine Vinegar, Balsamic Vinegar and Malt Vinegar
Dried Spaghetti, Fuselli, LG Rice, SG rice, Lentils, Broth Mix
Pasta Sauce, Curry sauce, Tabasco, Worcstershire Sauce
HM chutneys, pickles
Sunflower Oil, Spray oil, Sesame Oil, Olive oil and Groundnut oil

Tins
Tomatoes, Sweetcorn, Kidney Beans, Butter Beans, Haricot Beans, Baked Beans, Mixed veg
Condensed Soups, Chicken and Mushroom (great for sauces)
Tuna, Pilchards, Salmon, Corned Beef, Stewed Steak, Mince

Fridge
Butter, Marge, Lard, Cheese, Eggs,Single cream, Double cream

Mr_Lahey

freesoul wrote: »

May i ask why??

I have a bread maker and whilst i don't use it for all my bread i do for much of it.

Aside from the taste there are few things are comforting as waking up in the morning and smelling freshly baked bread

Pink.

Hi angelicmary,

I wouldn't be without black pepper, garlic, mixed herbs, chilli, sage, tarragon, cornflour, various flours, butter, sugar, tinned tomatoes, tomato puree, eggs, cheese, beans/pulses, rice, couscous, onions and stock cubes.

What we have in our storecupboards will depend on individual tastes and cooking habits but if you have a look at this thread it will give you a general idea of what most people use:

Storecupboard Essentials

I'll add your thread to that one later to keep the ideas together.

Pink

CAPMguy

in the days of unemployment i get drawn towards cheese alot, probably a sign of depression or something but still!

HowlinWolf

I wouldn't be without flour - plain SR and strong, eggs, butter, herbs, stock cubes, olive oil, tinned pulses dried are cheaper but no good in a just got home and there's nowt for dinner emergency, lentils, oats, sugar, treacle, tinned toms, potatoes and onions, bacon or packs of cubed pancetta, double cream, cheese, baked beans, dried pasta.

There are several meals I could make just from that lot alone and many more I could make by adding other ingredients. The lentils are for bulking out any mince dishes.