What do you always have on hand? Why?

I’d count refrigerated items as pantry staples if they keep for longer than a couple weeks.

One recent addition to my pantry has been dried chillies - great base for red chile sauce for enchiladas. Those plus maseca and some beans (also both staples) and I have a base for amazing enchiladas or tacos or whatever.

  • shnizmuffinAEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago
    1. Dollop some sourdough discard into a bowl.
    2. Whisk in some beer, 8-12oz.
    3. Whisk in 2:1 corn starch and all purpose flour until it’s the consistency of runny pancake batter.

    The consistency of the sourdough discard dictates the actual quantities.

    • joshthewaster@lemmy.worldOP
      2·
      1 month ago

      I don’t know what sourdough discard is… Actually want to learn to bake more - specifically bread but dealing with sourdough sounds difficult?

      • shnizmuffinAEnglish
        3·
        1 month ago

        We’re venturing into the domain of my partner and I don’t want to misspeak, but from what I understand:

        A sourdough “starter” is a ball of dough with living yeast. As part of the process of feeding it, you remove some of the old dough. That’s the discard. You can do all sorts of things with this discard.

        Making sourdough is as difficult as baking bread + taking care of a low maintenance houseplant. Not a huge responsibility, but more than just mixing flour and water on a whim.

        The users over at !bready@lemmy.world should be able to start you down that road.