im hungry.
i think after 16 years, i've exhasted all the foods in my house.
Every household has a different idea of "the basics".
And of course , - "the basics" always change year to year, if not - decade to decade.
When i was knee high, it was probably full of asian things, with not a single european thing to be found, things like flour, eggs, milk and butter were rare, if not non-existant.
You had things like, chinese mushroom, chinese sausages, potato starch, MSG, all spice and rice.
Slowly the pantry did evolve a bit, and it went through its phases. When we were still in primary school, there was always a loaf of bread, margarie and sandwhich bags somewhere. Poppers bombarded the fridge, and the little packets of chips flowed like a river.
As i grew up, and started cooking - things that i always dreamed of being unlimited finally were. Butter, flour, milk, eggs, onion, garlic - All the basics, all the things that i could use as much as i wanted to, to make the newest things i could think of - like a cake - made entirely out of eggs.
Changes brought in new as fast as it took out the old. Some things never changed. Like the endless flow of rice, or soy sauce.
But i havn't cooked in months. My pantry is lonely. It slowly fills back to the asian stuffings. Or the one hit fixes that my sisters fill it up with, simply because they're commercialistic superficial comsumers, who probably think eating a special k bar makes them look skinny. - or maybe because of the fact that they can't even make a sandwhich properly.
So - my pantry is exhasted. I still indulge. Right now.. im waiting for my rocket to grow, so i can have it on my homebaked sourdough. yumm.
But apart from that, perhaps this is a new era.