{"id":485,"date":"2013-06-26T13:27:15","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/?p=485"},"modified":"2013-06-26T13:31:14","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T13:31:14","slug":"in-the-goddess-grub-pantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/in-the-goddess-grub-pantry\/","title":{"rendered":"In The Goddess Grub Pantry"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m not someone who spends a lot of time in the kitchen. Maybe because I worked from home for so long that I got in the habit of eating most of my meals out.\u00a0 That was before I knew how much hidden fat I was getting in restaurant food.\u00a0 (A popular national steakhouse chain restaurant bakes their potatoes with bacon wrapped around\u00a0them!)\u00a0 I have a handful of favorite dishes I cook for myself and for friends and one of my favorite things to cook is soup.\u00a0Sometimes I do this in a structured manner, like deciding on split pea soup and buying just those ingredients, but most often I find myself in the store looking at a juicy stalk of fennel next to a fat leek and the ideas start to flow. If I have no direction in mind, I can just let the fresh vegetables of the day direct me.<\/span><\/p>\n

I love all kinds of soups. I love thick, chunky stews and I love a simple, delicate broth. I like leafy kale soups and hearty root vegetable soups.<\/p>\n

In my past incarnation (in this lifetime), I was a heavy meat eater. Sausage and ham hocks were the first ingredients into every soup! As I turned more health conscious at the turn of the new millennium, I embarked on a mission to discover food alternatives with massive flavor and minimum fat, and big hunks of meat no longer appealed to me.\u00a0 I wrote about it here Taking Responsibility for my own Health<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

So here’s what I keep in my pantry now.<\/p>\n

MY VEGETARIAN FRIENDS DON’T READ THIS: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Packaged fat free beef broth
\nPackaged fat free chicken broth
\nFrozen bay scallops
\nFrozen fish
\nOK TO READ NOW MY VEGGIE HEAD FRIENDS <\/span><\/p>\n

My pantry always includes: <\/span>
\nCanned tomatoes, large and small cans
\nCanned crushed tomatoes
\nCanned stewed tomatoes
\nCanned garbanzo beans for hummus<\/p>\n

I always have on hand: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Fresh onions: white, red and Vidalia
\nFresh garlic in bulbs
\nA few sweet potatoes
\nA few white potatoes, or Yukon Gold for flavor
\nCarrots
\nCelery
\nScallions
\nFresh basil and rosemary<\/span><\/p>\n

Vegetables I may also include in a soup if I see them fresh are: <\/span>
\nParsnips
\nFennel
\nLeeks
\nKale
\nPeppers: red, yellow and poblano
\nFresh English peas!
\nAsparagus
\nMushrooms<\/p>\n

Favorite dried spices include: <\/span>
\nSea salt finely ground
\nCoarse ground black pepper
\nGarlic powder (I go through maybe 5 oz a month)
\nTarragon
\nThyme<\/span>
\nPaprika<\/span>
\nCayenne pepper
\nOregano
\nBay leaves
\nTurmeric
\nCinnamon, powder and in sticks
\nFresh seeds that I grind: coriander, fennel, cumin<\/p>\n

Favorite dried beans I keep on hand include: <\/span>
\n<\/span>Pinto beans
\nSplit peas
\nWhite navy beans
\nRed kidney beans
\nGarbanzos
\nButter beans<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m not someone who spends a lot of time in the kitchen. Maybe because I worked from home for so long that I got in the habit of eating most of my meals out.\u00a0 That was before I knew how much hidden fat I was getting in restaurant food.\u00a0 (A popular national steakhouse chain restaurant […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5vW9k-7P","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":490,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485\/revisions\/490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/goddessgrub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}