Getting down to Basics
I like to have certain basics available in the house at all times. These particular basics you can create quite a lot of good meals with especially when the pennies are scarce. When we go shopping again at the end of the month the freezers will get sorted as will the dry pantry. I tend to keep a substantial stock of ingredients inhouse. The basics I tend not to like to be without consist of the following: A sack of potatoes; I like to keep a sack of potatoes in as you can always provide a good filling meal using these. You can bake the potatoes, mash them, steam them, make champ, make colcannon, make fish cakes with a tin of salmon, roast them, make rosti, bubble and squeak with left over veggies. A large net or a couple of smaller nets of onions, shallots, pickling onions. Shallots and pickling onions I normally freeze so I can just pop them into a roast straight from the freezer. I have then only normally have one really bad session of cryin...