Setting up the Pantry

Setting up the pantry is the essential key to easy Monday-to-Friday cooking. You’re familiar with the feeling—it usually occurs around 4 or 5 in the afternoon—you can’t think of what to make for dinner and know you’ve got nothing in the house. Even though you may have time to pick up a couple of ingredients, you certainly don’t carry around a cookbook to guide you. The final scene of this scenario finds you eating tuna straight from the can or a bowlful of pasta, again. Pasta and tuna are dandy, but you could have more.