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Cookbook Giveaway: 'A Twist of the Wrist'
canned: Tono tuna in olive oil. a decadent treat that can be eaten out of the can with a little ground white pepper. also useful on homemade bread with backyard picked tomato and lettuce and local cheddar mmmm.
Cookbook Giveaway: 'A Twist of the Wrist'
Canned beans and dried pasta are staples in my pantry and show up in my cooking on a weekly basis-oftentimes together! The beans and/or pasta are used as a side dish mixed w/herbs and olive oil or as a base for meat based dishes.
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Tahini -- thinly spread on crackers for a snack or tossed with cold buckwheat noodles along with miso, ginger, garlic, mirin, and a spalsh of apple cider vinegar =)
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bagged kombu. it definitely adds deliciousness to rice and just about any broth you want to make. there's nothing better than a bowl of sushi rice.
Cookbook Giveaway: 'A Twist of the Wrist'
For me, it's gotta be SPAM. I love the stuff even though others hate it.
My mom used to make SPAM fried rice for us and it was an easy but really good go to meal. When I started living on my own, I made SPAM fried rice as well but tired of it easily. Plus, I was never as good as my mom made it. So... what else could I do with it?
One of my friends had invited me over to his house for some pre-party preparations. Him being a fellow foodie, I was eager. I asked what we were making and he said SPAM musubi. I asked what it was and it was basically SPAM sushi, Hawaiian style. He taught me how to make homemade teriyaki sauce in which slices of pan fried SPAM were dipped into. (Equal parts soy sauce and brown sugar, course chopped 2-3 scallion, sliced inch or two ginger and 4-5 cloves of garlic. Boil and drop to simmer for 10 minutes and there's homemade teriyaki sauce) We used a Japanese plastic rectangular mold to shape the rice. Top it with a dipped slice of SPAM and wrap with nori.
THANK GOD FOR SPAM!
Cookbook Giveaway: 'A Twist of the Wrist'
Seems that canned tomatoes are a recurring theme, but I have a particular favorite: Muir Glen Organic Fire Roasted Tomatoes. The roasting gives a variety of Italian and southern dishes a different flavor that everyone always raves about.
Also, and possibly surprising but useful if you have an open mind, is Old El Paso Red Enchilada sauce. Now I grew up El Paso and learned how to make incredible red sauce from scratch, but who has time on any sort of a regular basis to reconstitute dried red peppers and run them through a ricer? Instead, I doctor up a can of Old El Paso to make pretty good enchiladas and carne.
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a jar of sun dried tomatoes to make a pesto sauce for pasta or fish, especially during the winter months when it's impossible to get ripe tomatoes.
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canned tomatoes, of course -- for pasta sauce, curries, veggie stews, etc. but my real favorite is the jar of nutritional yeast we keep on a shelf by the stove. it's perfect for seasoning popcorn (even if the nytimes seems to think that went the way of bellbottoms), putting on toast with butter, adding to sauces, etc.
and big jars of homemade pickles (lately, red cabbage and cauliflower)
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I love jarred roasted red bell peppers. Whether I'm making pasta, creating a sauce, looking for a great sandwich topping (especially a grilled chicken and fresh spinach panini-YUM!), or looking for a snack, it's one of the first things I look to in my pantry.
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Larp na? Orecchiette? ELK?
My contributions are far more tame: I have grown particularly fond of capers, which I like to add (very liberally) to wine sauces and salads, and of a certain Mexican fresh cream (jarred), which is the most cheerful topping (I like to drop spoonfuls on fajitas and anything else I can get away with) I've ever encountered.
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Jarred anchovies, for Caesar salad and orecchiette with broccoli rabe. Mark Bittman stole my idea this week with his pasta recipe. Also frozen artichoke hearts from Trader Joe's - much more versatile than the marinated kind (though those are tasty).
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Zatarain's Dirty Rice Mix. When faced with a surfeit of elk meat, a lot of it ground up, one must be creative. Elk is nowhere near as gamey as deer meat, but still....
It is perfect in dirty rice.
That's my box favorite.
Cans?
Bush's pinto beans (2-3 cans), a can of Muir Glen fire roasted tomatoes and peppers, a small can of tomato sauce (Hunt's preferably), and either ground elk or Trader Joe's exceptionally lean ground beef make a great, quick, low fat chili...although one's hand may grow weary of wielding a can opener.
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Tamarind pulp, you've blessed my pad thais and electrified my larp na when the limes went missing. Kickless curry? In you went, just a touch, nothing intemperate. But you gave me ideas. Before I knew it, you'd worked your way into underperforming pasta sauces, lackluster couscous, the occasional meat glaze and even - just that one time - sorbet.
I know you're just another country's version of ketchup, but I don't care. You complete me.
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Favorite:first, you should be double jointed because you must open several things:a package of Melissa's Roasted Beets sliced, smeared with goat cheese or feta and a drizzle of bottled Indo-European pomegranate molasses.
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does wine count?
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Swanson's chicken broth in the box. It is the best around and can be used whenever stock or broth is needed in recipes. I especiialy like to use it when making my summer patio speciality: steamed mussels in white wine and chicken broth with garlic, chopped onions and diced tomatoes. garnish with fresh parsley and have a baguette on hand for dipping and you are all set!
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Diced tomatoes are awesome. I like to use them as the basis for all kinds of things, from Italian pasta sauces to salsas to yummy minestrone (with canned beans of course!). When tomatoes are out of season, they taste a lot better than buying those tasteless excuses for "whole tomatoes" in the produce section. More like bags of water...
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My favorite canned good: smoked oysters. I can add it to practically anything that may be in the fridge at the time, toss it in a little pasta and I have a luxurious quick meal. My favorite combination, however, is with garlic slivers, red pepper flakes and a tablespoon of capers (my favorite bottled item).
Then there's mallomars, my favorite packaged item. Unfortunately, I haven't figured out how to combine it with anything that I've cooked.
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I am not a condiment type of person, but living in Chinatown something that has become a go-to add in for me is sriracha sauce! It spices up stir fries, chili, soups, and just about anything else while adding flavor with the heat.
This is of course in addition to all the above cupboard standbys of canned tomatoes and beans, frozen peas and edamame, and pasta!
Cookbook Giveaway: 'A Twist of the Wrist'
Canned artichoke hearts are my favorite. I put some in salad, on sandwiches, in pastas.
Cookbook Giveaway: 'A Twist of the Wrist'
Jarred, I go along with others on the sundried tomatoes. I can't live without them. I put them in salads, on pizzas, in pastas, make omelettes with them, stuff chicken breasts with them along with some goat cheese...the possibilities are endless.
Frozen - edamame. They are one of my favorite snacks; they're like my popcorn.
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Jarred - fish sauce
Canned - variety of cooked dry beans
Frozen - puff pastry and filo sheets
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My favorite canned food is chipotle peppers in adobo sauce. I use them in everything from mashed sweet potatoes (thanks AB) to rustic lentil soup to homemade enchilada sauce. :)
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Canned whole tomatoes, to provide sauce when I can't get good fresh ones.
All varieties of canned beans. They're great in all sorts of things, and don't require the time/planning ahead of dried.
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I cannot live without Trader Joes frozen minced garlic cubes and parsley. So convenient! I always have spares in the freezer in case I run out of fresh or I am in a rush. (They also have basil and cilantro)
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jarred sundried tomatoes. i use them on pasta, in frozen pizza... i'll even pop them straight out of the jar. :-)
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canned: Tono tuna in olive oil. a decadent treat that can be eaten out of the can with a little ground white pepper. also useful on homemade bread with backyard picked tomato and lettuce and local cheddar mmmm.