Staples

[sibyllevance]

I'm very much a beginner in all things kitchen so I tend to stick to recipes for the most part but obviously I can't work on recipes every day. I've just realized today while cooking 'by myself' (i.e. without a recipe) that I had some habits I frankly never realized I even had.
I almost always start by melting onions in a good chunk of salted butter, especially when I have no idea what I'm going to do. It seems like the right thing to do somehow (one of my housemates melts his onion exclusively in oil but I think I won him over just with the smell of mine).

So, what are your staples? Can be an ingredient or a 'foundation' for a recipe (frying onions for me)

Comments

[yvi]

Oh, and when I have to feed myself I do a lot of stuff with eggs. Mostly scrambled eggs with various ingredients, like kidney beans or bell peppers. Lots of parsley, basil or lovage added to that and you have yummy food.

[sibyllevance]

That sounds wonderful! Eggs are my parents staple though so I didn't want to copy them if I could avoid it haha something to do with 'see? I can do stuff too, I'm not a child'.