This easy miso soup recipe can be done with just a few ingredients from the pantry (or fridge): dashi powder, miso paste, dried kelp. Great, but totally optional, addition, is soft tofu, cut into small cubes! Boil some water, add the rest of the ingredients and simmer a few minutes, and voila! Comfort in a bowl.

Pantry pickings--my pantry is lovely when it's full of tasty food!

This Chickpea Meringue recipe is perfect when you don´t have much stuff at home but need to make yourself a treat. Eat it as it is or have it on ice cream. If you have some fruits home, you can turn this easy meringue as an beautiful pavlova. Don´t forget to make a sallad on the chickpeas after using the broth!

Inspired by days spent playing with my brother, we sometimes used to empty the tin cupboard and use them in our imaginary play (sorry Mum!) despite the abundance of toys on offer, it was games like these that immersed us.

Pantry Pickings—Why spend countless hours cutting vegetables and chucking corn when you can be a salsa gangsta with the stuff in your pantry? Don't we want it to be Eazy?

Pantry pickings from the days when chips came in metal tins.

Quarantine Pantry Craving. Tuscan tomato sauce is one of our family's favorite the ingredients are easy to find and can be served with any type of pasta. We love it with spaghetti. I like to make a large batch and freeze it. While the sauce is simmering to thicken, the family gathers in the kitchen, and everybody wants to dip a piece of bread in the sauce to "test" if it is ready. If you are lucky to find Parmigiano Reggiano, of course, add on top!

My ideal pantry has bottled pickles and jams, various shapes of pasta, colorful beans and grains, onions and garlics, dried herbs and so on.

It's fun just watching the lineup of excellent foods that you can eat right away and thinking about what to cook!

Stuff in my pantry

This is pretty typical representation of what I have in my kitchen cupboards right now ( although I've missed out 5kg bags of sushi and basmati rice) These are the ingredients I use the most to put together my favourite dishes (aka comfort food), and are even more important in this current situation.

This is a recipe that I made during being quarantined. I was trying not to go to the grocery store and also trying to impress my children with a playful but delicious rice dish. The juice from the beets makes the rice a super vibrant magenta pink color. I felt like an awesome mom because I made a fun meal that the kids actually ate.