There are two vegetable categories I always have in the house, even if I haven’t the foggiest notion what or when I’m going to cook that week. First there are vegetables whose flavor I rely on to season almost every dish I make. Second there are the vegetables I load up on because they keep for a long time without spoiling. What’s convenient for me, small apartment dweller that I am, is that most of the vegetables in one category overlap into the other category, thus saving me storage space.