Your one store cupboard 'must have'?

[PapaLazaru]

I am not talking about salt and pepper and basic stuff, but one thing that you have to have in your kitchen cupboard?

Can be a cooking item or a foodstuff.

Mine is really easy and it is crushed chilli flakes. I may well over use them for some tastes, but I prefer it to using pepper in many dishes that need pepping up. In fact, I kind of use them on most things to a certain degree. A few flakes on roasted veg as part of Sunday dinner for instance.

Love them.

 

[PapaLazaru]

Lemon, although I realise it's not quite a cupboard thing.

Have you tried preserving them? They last for ages if you do that and are a good addition to numerous dishes.

On another lemon note, I went to Turkey recently and ended up buying a bag of lemon salt. It looks like salt crystals, but tastes like lemon! Amazing stuff.