The Bare Pantry Necessities…
Can’t afford to run off and get everything on Rachael Ray’s must have pantry list? No worries - just add a little EVOO, Garlic and pasta to the three basics below and you’re all set for a myriad of recipe’s to sooth the cheapskates palette!
Anchovy paste and whole anchovies
“I always keep tons of them on hand because you can put them with some garlic — a lot of garlic — EVOO and then add pasta of any size or shape and that’s dinner. It’s called Aglio Olio pasta and it’s absolutely fabulous. Once you melt the anchovies down into the olive oil, they taste like salted nuts. And who doesn’t love salted nuts?”Canned fish
“I love canned fish because you can make so many different meals with it and it’s so easy to keep on hand and stocked up.”Boxed stock
“Love this stuff. Saute any vegetable you have in the house, stir in any kind of pasta, macaroni or rice, throw in some stock and you’ve got instant soup. It also gives an all-day, slow-cooked flavor to pasta sauces and pan gravies. The great thing is that they come in paper containers now, instead of the cans, so you can just pop the top, and pop it in your fridge.”
Straight-from-the-pantry recipes:
EVOO + garlic + anchovies + spaghetti = Aglio Olio
EVOO + garlic + anchovies + linguine + baby clams + white wine = linguine with white clam sauce
linguine with white clam sauce + canned tomatoes or tomato paste = linguine with red clam sauce
EVOO + garlic + canned tuna + canned tomatoes + olives = tuna puttanesca sauce
canned salmon or tuna + egg whites + breadcrumbs + parsley + seasoning = fish cakes
You know… some of those sound REALLY good. Good thing tomorrow’s payday!
August 15th, 2007 at 8:43 am
Some of those do sound good, but I still just cannot get to thinking that anchovies prepared any way taste good. I think I will just go for the real salted nuts.
August 21st, 2007 at 12:29 am
[...] at Auntie’s, I decided I’d give one of those recipe’s listed last week’s Bare Pantry Recipe’s a try. They’re supposed to be easy, fast, and stress free, AND I had most everything, or [...]