3 Must-Have Ingredients in your kitchen

The same 3 you mentionned Entropy, plus french shallots, I found some from Sri Lanka, delicious just on plain bread :D

French and English mustards (does that count as two choices?)
Good EVOO
Tinned Italian plum tomatoes

Garlic, Cheddar cheese and Oregano.

Good thread!

I cannot cook without garlic, rosemary and sage.
If it's ingredients you mean, I'd have to say eggs, butter and soy sauce (or ponzu).

I have a new favorite too, not a must have, but something I have been putting in almost everything recently:

Tobasco's smoked chipotle sauce.

Now if you'd have asked for 30 it'd be easier :eek:

Lessee ..... pasta, ground beef, tinned roma tomatoes

But how can I leave out onions...garlic...cheese...eggs...bread...bacon... lemon juice... oh my!
It's hopeless.

Great thread btw

Working in a pastry kitchen i would say sugar, cream and flour (but for flavoring 63% chocolate, pistachios, and orange). In a savory kitchen thyme, roma tomatoes, evoo.

garlic, thyme, lemon or hot sauce (I'm sodium restricted and these do much of the stand in for salt)

olive oil, acid (viniager or lemon juice), butter I think....but thyme/rosemary/chipotle/garlic/parisian herbs are all used regularly....ugh 3?!!!

Give me some good quality strip steaks, bleu cheese, and spinach.

Tinned San Marzano Tomatoes(Cheers Ishbel, got them online at Valvona and Crolla):smiles:
Garlic
Olive Oil

I couldn't possibly limit the list to a "top three." The important and indispensable ingredients would change based on seaso, what I'm cooking, and my mood.

Tonight I'd say EVOO, pasta, and Reggiano. In the moring it would be fruit.

I always like to have knives and a good cutting board in the kitchen, and my stock pot is truly important.

Kind regards,

Shel

garlic shallots and salt. people who dont like garlic cant be trusted...

I don't want to tell you how much I spent in there over the Easter weekend..... :eek:

In that case i'm glad I live at least 500 miles away!:lol: I'm a sucker for quality Deli's.:lips:

What, no vanilla? :eek:

The three "most" basic would have to be: salt, pepper, EVOO.

doc

Tomatoes, garlic, and onion

With those and a few other ingredients, I can create a meal!

doc you wasted two, salt and pepper were gimmees.....

Garlic, EVO and (I'm surprised nobody has mentioned this yet) good chicken stock/broth.

Jock

i didnt even think of vanilla.....lol. Erase the orange then...lol

well let's see... trying to think of what I keep needing to purchase lately....
pasta (any...all..LOL), butter, and dark chocolate!!! :bounce:

Aside from the obvious salt and pepper, what do you always like to have in your kitchen?
Someone who can cook, springs to mind! Closely followed by Onions, garlic, carrots and celery.

Olive oil, good Parm and onions.

What is EVO? :confused:

- Rice (long Grain or Aborio)
- Garlic (a lot)
- some kind of meat/seafood

:crazy:

(Thanks god there is a garden with all the nice fresh herbs, so I didn't have to choose between Garlic and Herbs...)

Extra Virgin (Olive), abbreviated these days as EVOO.

good oninons, good olive oil, and hotsauce

I guarantee you, every single one of my dishes that isn't a dessert or a sweet contains garlic. I love the stuff. Good EVOO is also high on my list, and any kind of high quality cheese is up there too. Runners up would probably be canned tomatoes, pasta, onions, fresh herbs ,dried herbs, good stock, bacon/ bacon drippings, but you probably get the idea. :lips:

Garlic, Onions, and Extra Virgin Olive Oil