You have roasted barley, an orange bell pepper and a well-stocked pantry. What are you making?

This is a hard mode challenge.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
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    10 days ago

    The problem is that not everybody would agree with what you consider to be basic. To me, you would absolutely have to include soy sauce, for example. And I mostly use white vinegar for cleaning. Replace that with rice wine vinegar, however…

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      9 days ago

      The point of the basics list is that they’re isolated components covering different tastes. One salty (NaCl), one sweet (sucrose), one acidic (acetic acid).* If your proposed dish isn’t flexible with regards to the type of salt/sugar/acid, then I don’t think it fits the bill for this category.

      ~* I considered an umami too (msg), but I had a feeling that’s less accessible compared to the others. Maybe that’s just my Western bias though.~