My best and most reliable pieces of advice are almost all incredibly small-scale and food-related: If you have to buy evaporated milk for a specific recipe, buy a can of condensed milk at the same time, since they’re kind of easy to mistake for one another and right next to each other at the grocery store, so that even if you do open the wrong one back at home, you’ll still have the other in reserve. If someone offers you a drink during an informational or job interview, you should always take it, because no one ever got a job just because they seemed low-maintenance about beverages during the interview, so it’s not a make-or-break issue or secret test of character, plus the job itself isn’t guaranteed but the here-and-now cup of coffee
Add me to the list of people who had never realized canned potatoes were a thing... Will have to try. Those really simple roasted potatoes sound like they'd serve as a complete light lunch, or a good starch side, next to some kind of protein and vegetable.
Totally agree on the canned artichoke hearts. I also love the jarred ones that are lightly marinated -- you can use the slightly-briny oil from those as part of a salad dressing, to put over the salad that has the artichoke hearts in it. (Also, if you can find the _grilled_ marinated artichokes, toss 'em with some pasta, and a bit of the oil from the jar, maybe an extra drizzle of olive oil if you want, add a bunch of parm -- the Kraft green cylinder will do fine, though a tub of ground parm from the deli section will probably be better -- and that's a delicious meal.) But the canned ones are cheaper, and depending on what exactly you're doing with them, they may be perfectly fine.
Wow, I've never thought to try canned potatoes, since fresh potatoes are so cheap and low maintenance. HMM. I don't put my potatoes in the crisper - I leave them on the counter or in a cupboard. Then if they start to sprout sometimes I plant them in the garden. That is how I got a whole bunch of free potatoes last year. Chucked them in an unused part of my garden plot and they sure did grow. You just have to keep mounding up soil around them as they grow or else the ones that get light on them will be green and bitter.
Add me to the list of people who had never realized canned potatoes were a thing... Will have to try. Those really simple roasted potatoes sound like they'd serve as a complete light lunch, or a good starch side, next to some kind of protein and vegetable.
Totally agree on the canned artichoke hearts. I also love the jarred ones that are lightly marinated -- you can use the slightly-briny oil from those as part of a salad dressing, to put over the salad that has the artichoke hearts in it. (Also, if you can find the _grilled_ marinated artichokes, toss 'em with some pasta, and a bit of the oil from the jar, maybe an extra drizzle of olive oil if you want, add a bunch of parm -- the Kraft green cylinder will do fine, though a tub of ground parm from the deli section will probably be better -- and that's a delicious meal.) But the canned ones are cheaper, and depending on what exactly you're doing with them, they may be perfectly fine.
Wow, I've never thought to try canned potatoes, since fresh potatoes are so cheap and low maintenance. HMM. I don't put my potatoes in the crisper - I leave them on the counter or in a cupboard. Then if they start to sprout sometimes I plant them in the garden. That is how I got a whole bunch of free potatoes last year. Chucked them in an unused part of my garden plot and they sure did grow. You just have to keep mounding up soil around them as they grow or else the ones that get light on them will be green and bitter.