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the
Lazy
Shopper's
kitchen
essentials
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The lazy shopper’s
magic bag of accent ingredients
Accent ingredients are those
miraculously potent little flavorings that add instant appeal to almost
any dish. Have fun adding these ingredients to recipes in which they
wouldn't traditionally be used -- dried shiitake mushrooms, for
instance, are typically used only in Asian dishes, but also work
fabulously when tossed into pasta sauces (they're sort of the poor man's
dried porcini). Because these accent ingredients are so flavor-packed, they often come with a hefty
price tag … but the good news is that a little will go a long way, and
for the most part, these ingredients will last for a very long time.
Accent essentials: pine nuts,
sun-dried tomatoes, dried shiitake mushrooms, capers, real parmigiano
reggiano
(stored in fridge, of course), dijon mustard
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Armed with the proper knowledge and a storehouse of long-lived
ingredients, the lazy shopper can still be a good cook. Shop sensibly,
and you can get away with shopping very infrequently. Of course, you
should feel free to experiment, and even (gasp!) occasionally deviate
from the dictates of the cookbook recipes … add some sun-dried
tomatoes to your mom’s traditional tomato sauce, throw some capers
into your salad, make risotto using short-grained Asian rice instead of
Arborio. Get creative, and you’ll soon be cooking dishes so tasty you
won’t have any cause at all to feel guilty for being a lazy shopper.
Recipes for the lazy shopper:
spaghetti puttanesca
risotto with onions and carrots
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