Claire
Master Chef
I'm a believer in using an occasional shortcut. Sure, from-scratch stock is better. But sometimes it doesn't work that way. So I keep containers of Swanson's (or whatever I can get locally) in the pantry. I like to put Lipton's soup mixes in my meat loaf or meatballs to "beef" up the flavor. And don't we all like a taste of childhood sometimes? Sometimes those re-visits to childhood, though, can be disastrously salty (the last time I bought rice-a-roni, for example). So you need to be judicious.
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