As you know from reading our column, we encourage everyone to embrace cooking your own food from scratch to ensure a healthier you! Lots of our recipes can be found on the lifestyle section of our website, if you are looking for some inspiration!
We like to keep our refrigerator, pantry, and freezer stocked with items that allow us to whip up a great meal very easily. This takes planning and organization, but once you get the hang of it, you’ll be making great dishes in no time!
What’s in our kitchen? We try to purchase organic whenever possible. We stock canned San Marzano tomatoes, tomato paste, a variety of beans such as black, pinto, garbanzo, cannellini, and refried. We keep stock of fresh pastas from Bailey’s in our freezer, as well as other gluten-free options such as Bonza chickpea pasta, Ancient Harvest quinoa pasta, and Tinkyada rice pasta. We have plenty of olive and coconut oils, many many different herbs and spices, coconut milk, a variety of mustards and other condiments, honey, a variety of rices, quinoa, oats, cereals, and baking supplies. We love different kinds of vinegars such as the classic balsamic, as well as rice, wine, apple cider, and a variety of other flavored options. We especially love these so we can make any kind of salad dressing at any time! We keep peanut and almond butter on hand, as well as soy sauce or tamari, Worcestershire, sesame oil, and a variety of hot sauces.
We always keep our vegetable bins full and have a little fruit on hand, including dried fruits such as raisins, cranberries, figs, and dates, and always have lemons and limes. We keep a full supply of garlic, onions, potatoes, carrots, celery, and squash. We regularly stock hummus, tofu, coconut yogurt, a variety of cheeses, olives, and meat, chicken and fish. We order gluten free bread products from Sami’s Bakery online and keep that in our freezer.
Stocking wisely makes cooking easier. Some favorite regular meals for us are lemon-garlic-herbed fish or chicken with pasta, Asian veggie-tofu with peanut sauce and rice, lots of salads with different dressings, grilled flank steak with roasted veggies, spaghetti or zoodles and marinara with meatballs, coconut milk curried veggies with rice, and cauliflower crust pizza.
Happy cooking! May this time bring inspiration and good eats!