The best way to organize your pantry? Use up all the random stuff in it.
Of course you can also run out and buy a million baskets and labelsfarrochili saucecoconut oil
To inspire some creative clean-out-your-pantry cooking, three of my teammates here at Epi presented me with a list of the contents of each of their home pantries and asked me to develop new recipes that would use up some of the languishing ingredients. Here’s what I came up with:
1. David’s Pantry
The first thing David
To use up some of those staples, I put together an easily customizable rice noodle dinner garnished with slices of those roasted seaweed snacks, which adds a lovely salty touch to each bite. The noodles feature some of the creamy texture and flavors of your favorite cold sesame noodles, but are served hotâand are hot in flavor too, since I added a lot of hot sesame oil to it. If you don’t want it spicy, you can use toasted sesame oil instead.
You can make this dish with any shape or size of rice noodle you wantâyou can even combine two different shapes. And use any kind of ground meat you want: pork, beef, lamb, chicken, turkey…or skip the meat entirely and just add more vegetables. The scallions are really excellent in the dish, so don’t skip those, but you can use carrots or snap peas or snow peas or a combination as the veg, or leave them out entirely. It’s an easy framework you can follow to clear out your pantry and get a crowd-pleasing, easy dinner on the table to boot.
2. Anya’s Pantry
Anya
