The 20-Item Pantry That Makes 50 Different Dinners

📘 Brenda Cooks: 162 recipes for every kind of week your kitchen goes through https://brendacooks.com/ Every night around five you stand in front of a cupboard full of rice, pasta and cans and feel like there's nothing to eat. There was always dinner in there. Nobody ever taught you the arithmetic. You were taught recipes, and if you're missing one ingredient you're sunk. The system underneath the recipes is small: about twenty things, and they make fifty dinners or more. In this one I'll walk you through how dinner is actually built, so your cupboard starts cooking for you: 🍚 The five bases that fill the plate: rice, pasta, potatoes, dried beans and lentils, and flour 🧅 The fat and the aromatics, and why an onion cooked slow in oil is the first move of forty dinners 🥫 The savory slot (a can of tomatoes and a jar of bouillon) plus eggs, tinned fish and a wedge of hard cheese 🌶️ The "direction": soy, vinegar, cumin, oregano, curry, and how one small turn makes a whole new night …and the arithmetic that turns twenty things into fifty dinners without a single orphan ingredient. The meal-kit box is selling you the chopping and the deciding. Quit paying somebody to chop your onion. You've got dinner in that cupboard. If cooking from the cupboard and a smart, thrifty kitchen sound good to you, subscribe and stick around — that's what we do here every week. 💛 What's the pantry dinner you fall back on when there's nothing in the house? Tell me down in the comments. #budgetmeals #cheapmeals #pantrymeals #pantrystaples #mealplanning #frugalcooking #cookingathome #frugalliving #easydinners