Growing up, dinner was a "meat and three" affair, but after I moved out of my parent's house, I developed a taste vegetarian/low meat dining, especially when I'm cooking dinner just for myself. Over the years, I've developed a list of pantry/freezer friendly items that I try to keep on hand at all times, so on the nights when I don't feel like going into the kitchen, much less cooking, I have something I can pull together quickly with minimal dishes involved.
Here's my list:
Black beans
Chick peas
Great Northern beans
Cannellini beans
Basmati rice (LOVE my rice cooker)
Minced garlic in olive oil
Sun dried tomatoes in olive oil
Butter
Olive Oil
Soy Sauce
Balsamic Vinegar
Penne Pasta
Sour cream
Cream Cheese
Squeezey Lemon
Squeezey Lime
Parmesan Cheese
Feta Cheese
English Baked Beans
Cheese Ravioli or Tortellini
Diced tomatoes
Rotel
Individual servings of table white and table red wine
Chicken stock
Vegetable stock
With these items on hand, I can almost always whip up something easy for dinner. Tonight's dinner is mixed tortellini with toasted garlic brown butter sauce and sundried tomatoes, with Tinto de Verano to drink.
How do you make your Tinto de Verano?
ReplyDelete1/2 red wine, 1/2 lemon-lime soda. It's not as heavy as sangria.
ReplyDeleteI always love spaghetti and garlic bread for a quick tasty meal. Yay for cheese ravioli.
ReplyDeleteI love this list! What kind of rice cooker do you use? It seems like whichever one I pick, it always burns the stuff. I'd love to get a Zojirushi but they're so spendy.
ReplyDeleteI use a Black and Decker 6 cup rice cooker. I think it was $25. It does tend
ReplyDeleteto toast the ver bottom rice. I like to use a little olive oil in cooking.
It seems to help.