When I’m short on ideas, I sketch out the plate first: vegetables, something starchy and a protein ingredient. It’s a handy way to turn a few leftovers into dinner.
Big bags of nuts and dried fruit are good value, but eating straight from them is a guessing game. On Sunday afternoons I divide one into small jars, and it takes ten minutes.
Rice grows. Everyone knows that, and yet I still manage to cook enough for an army. These are the numbers I finally wrote on a card and taped inside the cupboard door.