Essential Kitchen Ingredients

[English Noodles]

What are your essential kitchen ingredients? By this I mean what are the ingredients (tinned/fresh/bottled/whatever) that you keep in the kitchen at most times. Ie you can just stop off and by some chicken or beef or whatever on the way home and know you can knock up a decent meal in the house.

[klong toey]

Whole Chillies Dried and Fresh.
Lime
Palm sugar
Fish Sauce
Garlic
Rice
Nam Budo
Lemon Grass
Black Pepper Corns
Coconut Milk

[Humbert]

Always in stock: Garlic, limes, basil, tomatos, chilis, olive oil, tomato paste, and canned tomato sauce.

[patsycat]

Oil, pasta, rice, butter, canned tomatoes, packets of rosti, cheese, garlic, onions, baked beans, wine

[English Noodles]

Good posts so far, thanks.

I will be making a list soon. I need to get my kitchen in to shape.

[English Noodles]

Nam Budo

What's Nam Budo? I tried 'google' but the two results that come back are both from you in TD. I gather it's something that stinks. Cheers.

[Cujo]

Onions, tomatoes, Garlic, Olive oil, butter, sugar, salt, crushed pepper, dried mixed herbs, plain flour, pasta, cheese, chilli paste, worcestershire sauce, tobasco sauce.

[Loy Toy]

Gas...............I am responsible to make sure we have gas.

[sabaii sabaii]

Cartons of Massaman, Green curry, and the red carton, I forgot the name from family mart or Foodland

And in the fridge

Shit loads of chilli,onions, butter, cheese, garlic, potatoes,tomatoes,pineapple,some small cucumber looking thing used in her sweet and sours, jam,pickled onions, milk,eggs, Leo, sprite, pommegranite juice,water, Nescafe tins,ferrero rochers, Lime Gatorades and about 100 tomato ketchups from Mc Donalds.

In the freezer

Chicken teriyake ping and Spaghetti bol ping from CP
A bottle of Absolut, ice cubes and some walls Neapolitan

In the pantry

frosties, rice, cooking oil,Walkers shortbread, Tam tam crunch, Nescafe 3 in 1 espresso, custard cakes, cashew nuts, hai tai crackers, baked beans, tomato puree, tinned tomatoes, sugar, salt, pepper,HP sauce, Ketchup. wholewheat bread(7/11) and sour cream pringles

[The Fresh Prince]

Tam tam crunch

These belong in the fridge.

[sabaii sabaii]

^I like to suck the chocolate off the top.

Fcuk, sounds like something Socal would come out with

[Bogon]

Always #1 is salt and pepper.

These two babies go on EVERYTHING I cook.

If you watch/read any of those Gordon Ramsay/Jamie Oliver shows and books. You will see that lemon rind and juice with a dash of olive oil is added to absolutely everything they cook!
Sure these dudes even put it on their cornflakes in the morning!!!!!!!!!!!

[jizzybloke]

Crisps and peanuts plus beer in the fridge anything else is a waste of time, space and money!

[klong toey]

Nam Budo

What's Nam Budo? I tried 'google' but the two results that come back are both from you in TD. I gather it's something that stinks. Cheers.

I married a Southern girl.
Bu Do sauce is special fish fermented sauce from the southern part of Thailand. Southern Thai people love to eat Bu Do sauce with fresh vegetables or mix with spicy rice salad.
If she has not got any she gets a face on sometimes we manage to buy some in Bangkok a trip to a food show at Impact Muang Thong Thani,or sometimes its posted up from Yala.Other wise we have to head south to buy some.Great 7000 baht flight for 6 bottles of Budo.
Can't make a good Gaeng Som without Budo.
Oh also have to have Sataw.

[Loy Toy]

A few good cook books are a must but lately I have been getting some great recipes off the internet........to give to my wife of course.

Oh....and a good oven will make or break your baked meals and pastries. In my opinion electric ovens are far better then gas.

[chitown]

Olive Oil
Sea Salt
Celery Salt
Rosemary
HP Sauce
Garlic
Worcestershire Sauce
Nutmeg
Black Pepper

[Loy Toy]

Good to see that nobody uses that poison MSG.

I think it must be the first ingredient used in most Asian kitchens.

[Stinky]

Any good reliable Indian or Chinese Takeaway menu is a must in any good single mans kitchen

[Stinky]

Good to see that nobody uses that poison MSG.

I think it must be the first ingredient used in most Asian kitchens.

I've actually fallen out quite badly with a few Filipino helpers before now because they insist in putting that crap in Lil Digits food, they just cant seem to get it into their heads that its not good stuff.

[jizzybloke]

crabsticks

[The Fresh Prince]

[English Noodles]

I married a Southern girl. Bu Do sauce is special fish fermented sauce from the southern part of Thailand. Southern Thai people love to eat Bu Do sauce with fresh vegetables or mix with spicy rice salad. If she has not got any she gets a face on sometimes we manage to buy some in Bangkok a trip to a food show at Impact Muang Thong Thani,or sometimes its posted up from Yala.Other wise we have to head south to buy some.Great 7000 baht flight for 6 bottles of Budo. Can't make a good Gaeng Som without Budo. Oh also have to have Sataw.

Thanks for that KT. Never heard of it before now. I enjoy learning little things like that.

[dirtydog]

I got to admit i never thought of noodles as a chef, always thought of him dining in the finest hotels, quaffing the finest wines, eating at Bangkoks finest restaurants, and then doing a runner when the bill come, funny how we envisage people aint it

[English Noodles]

[S Landreth]

From the lists above it seem everything is covered,.but I didn’t see Balsamic vinegar on anyones list.