The oddest ingredients in your larder?

The Sweeper

As the title says, what's the weirdest thing in your larder? Naturally, what's weird to you may not be weird to someone else, but in terms of degrees of exotic fancy...

I think the fish derivative products are the weirdest in mine. And weirder still, how addicted I've become to them. Dried shrimp, shrimp paste and fish sauce. I find it hard to believe what a fantastic difference they can make to a dish. I cooked pad thai for dinner last night and it was great. I used to buy fish sauce in the tiny spice-bottle-sized bottles. Now it comes in litres.

On the flip side, I have lentils in my cupboard and I just have no idea what to do with them. They're hardly exotic, but I'm stumped.

Asiaprod

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

As the title says, what's the weirdest thing in your larder?

Dried Jellyfish, really.

The Hill Billy

Carageen Moss.

Macker

Minesajackdaniels wrote:

On the flip side, I have lentils in my cupboard and I just have no idea what to do with them. They're hardly exotic, but I'm stumped.

Weight watchers have a tasty Spicy Lentil Soup

400g can chopped tomatoes
25g split red lentils
400ml water
1 veg stock cube
1 tea spoon mixed dried herbs
1 small onion ,chopped
1 small red pepper chopped
1 tea spoon of tobasco sauce

place all ingredients in a pot ,bring to the boil and simmer for 30 mins ,then blend and enjoy

bonkey

Hmmm...dunno that there's anything truly weird in my larder. The closest I'd get would be stuff like:

Hemp seeds
Hemp oil
Pumpkin seeds
Pumpkin oil


But, well, y'know....I don't consider them odd cause I'm kinda used to them...

jc

NextSteps

Well since I threw out the spray-on cheese we got in the States, it's all been pretty normal.