#kitchen staples

[whohasthesamerangeasmushrooms]

Cooking staples I like to have in my kitchen

Hello internet, my name is Shroomi and I like to cook!

I've created this blog to share recipes and tips as well as learn some tricks from the cooking community here in tumblr 👩🏻‍🍳✧˖°🫧🥙˙ᵕ˙₊⊹

On this first post, I'd like to share some cooking staples I like to have in my kitchen. Please note that I don't always use all of them for a dish, instead choosing to combine them to get unique and wonderful flavours whenever I cook something ‧₊˚ ⋅ 𓐐𓎩 ‧₊˚ ⋅

Salt: I find it crucial to season lightly my ingredients as to enhance their natural flavour.

Herbs: They always add a nice touch of freshnesss to my dishes and they can give an extra touch to a dish. Plus, if you can't use salt in your dishes due to health issues, using some fresh or dried herbs will help make the food less bland.

Soy sauce: Same as the salt. I love little touch it adds to my food. Plus, combined with some sugar, it can make a very nice glaze, and diluted, it can be used to marinate meats or eggs.

Vinegar: I like to use if when making salad dressings along with salt, oil and soy sauce or herbs. I love its acidity, which is why i use it to marinate or pickle vegetables and fish.

Sugar: I use it for desserts, obviously, and for caramelizing onions or chicken. I may replace it with honey sometimes, but only when I know its flavour won't overpower the rest of the ingredients

Garlic: I live off this stuff. Making a stir-fry? Put some garlic in there. Breakfast toast? Rub some of that good stuff on the bread. Making soup? Throw some garlic cloves in there. Need a sauce? Just mash them with olive oil for an allioli or add some parsley in there as well. Garlic is just so versatile oh my god. And, as with the herbs, you can add it to your food to give it a bit of an extra kick if you can't use salt.

Spicy sauce: I love me some spicy sauce to add to my stir fries, my noodles or my fried eggs... The one I use now was gifted by a family friend from Mexico, and we've been using it for a while.

I would add smoked mild paprika and cinnamon to the list because I do use them sometimes, but I don't use them that much, so I wouldn't call them staples. And no, I did not put pepper on the list. I don't like black pepper. I know 99% of the world's population likes to season steaks and vegetables and well, anything really, with both salt and black pepper but I just hate it. Hate eating a steak and biting into a piece of pepper, can't really see what's so great about it... Eh.

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[katsuramazurka]

Instant Pot Swiss Steak Swiss steak cooked in the Instant Pot in a hearty tomato-based sauce with vegetables is the perfect comfort food for cold nights.

[designyourfashion]

Beef - Instant Pot Swiss Steak The ideal comfort food for chilly nights is Swiss steak cooked in the Instant Pot® in a hearty tomato-based sauce with vegetables.

[bugborglesbian]

Instant Pot Swiss Steak The ideal comfort food for chilly nights is Swiss steak cooked in the Instant Pot® in a hearty tomato-based sauce with vegetables.

[m3lonad33]

Someone help me i can't stop

(Also ik about the 50s thing, but he should've been in the 80s, and I will die on that hill)

(Also someone please take pearls away from me)

[virsancte]

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

scheduled 10:40 AM skittertime

[outeremissary]

Gotta say, Witch Hat Atelier Kitchen has been all hits and no misses with actually making the recipes so far. I don't expect much from recipes in cooking spinoffs but this has worked pretty well and I've consistently had tasty food that came out as expected. I think sometimes the directions are a little sparse for preparation/process, but the chapters recipes are drawn from are accurate enough to process that going back and looking at what characters are doing has cleared up my questions every time I've had them. Not a bad way to get some stuff that's hearty and easy to make at home. Excited to make more from the volume in the future!

[fitzrove]

[head in hands] i'm not doing so well

[fieriframes]

[FIERI: In Eugene, Oregon, Papa's Soul Food Kitchen & BBQ is doing something pretty unique in these parts -- dishing out straight-up Southern staples.]

[electrificata]

i mention all the time how in the early 2010s when i started seeing womens plus size clothes that were even remotely tolerable, it was all this 50s pinup kind of shit. and i can tolerate a small amount of that in my personal style, but i wanted some other options too, and that was hard to find. and i thought to myself "well things are just gonna keep opening up and eventually there will be more and more options" and of course that was wrong, because i think really what just happened is theres one Dominant Fat People Aesthetic and it just keeps changing.

in the mid 2010s the brands with extended sizes were like asos and fashionnova and boohoo, like ig baddie stuff. and same deal with that as with the pinup shit, i like a little of that, i def wore one of the more conservative fashionnova dresses to my cousin's bar mitzvah, but its not a whole wardrobe for me.

now what im seeing in the world of fat people style is like...big bud press/selkie kinda shit. like, "what if grown ups could wear toddler clothes too" big floofy dresses and skirts or baggy basic workwear in crayola colors (to be fair this is what gay people of many sizes are wearing), or maybe "goth but its very specifically goth cartoon characters" and again! that is fine, i have some big bud press pants and they're very comfortable but PLEASE can we have more than one aesthetic in the plus size fashion world at a time!! capitalism your free market wants me to wear overalls so so so bad and its just not for me.

[jess-abides]

We did a Costco trip this weekend and stocked up on some things. Spent a ridiculous amount of money of course but I feel good about what we got and how far it will take us. I actually was thinking about taking budget notes for science - what we got, how much it cost, how long it ends up lasting us and what supplemental groceries I get in the meantime? Idk it sounds like a lot of work but also I’m curious so you know maybe I’ll hyperfixate on this for a little while lol

[iphisesque]

ive been craving pancakes SO bad lately but i have no intention of spending that much money on ingredients or time on cooking something that im going to eat alone and that's going to make me sick

[zmorowanie]

day 6. eye(s)!

[crippledanarchy]

[Image description: a home baked loaf of white bread sitting on a cooling rack next to a ceramic loaf pan]

3 cups warm water

1 1/2 tablespoons yeast

1 1/2 tablespoons kosher sea salt

6 1/2 cups flour

Mix well, do not knead

Let sit on the counter covered for at least 2 hours (up to 5 hours won't hurt the dough)

Chill for at least an hour or keep for up to two weeks

When you want to bake: form loaf into desired shape on a floured surface

Let rise for 40 minutes

Score with a sharp knife

Bake at 450° Fahrenheit for 30 minutes or until golden brown

[arctic-hands]

Let's play a thought game where I don't have food allergies, lactose intolerancy, and celiac:

How the fuck is anyone expected to survive on a food budget of like one hundred and fifty dollars a month when 8 items, none of which are meat or eggs even and the only "specialty" food is oat milk, costs sixty-five dollars?