Spatula Diaries: The prepared pantry defense

“No one I know sits around talking about how bored they are, or how they’re dripping with extra time,” writes 225 food blogger Maggie Heyn Richardson. “The overstuffed schedule seems to be a chronic—and unfortunate—condition, and all of us, regardless of skill level in the kitchen, feel the pinch at meal time. I can’t tell you the number of evenings I look up and realize I’ve planned nothing for dinner and have no raw materials with which to work in the fridge. The thought of heading back out to the grocery is a huge drag, so my solution has been to keep an arsenal of pantry staples that can be transformed into specific, simple suppers.” Click here to read more in this week’s Spatula Diaries.