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Beat that weekday dinner rush with some amped up pantry staples! Originally published on Pittsburgh Magazine We all have our personal “high–risk” stores. These are the stores that you go to where you go in with an efficient little list and leave with double the items on that list. Or worse, you go in without a list and leave with a cartful of items that you didn’t intend to buy and forget the one thing you did mean to buy. Ugh. Worse still? You do this at Costco. Where you go in promising yourself to buy only these three things and come out with a year’s worth of broth, frozen vegetables to feed 2,000 people, all of whatever they were sampling out (YES I’ll have three Teriyaki skewers), the latest exercise DVD and lawn furniture. I exaggerate. A little. But last night, as I opened my fridge, I was confronted with the biggest jar of capers I have ever seen with maybe a tablespoon worth taken out and an equally humungous jar of pimiento-stuffed olives. Of course, I still had that sack of garlic I need to use up and the 2 million pounds of organic quinoa — pantry puzzle pieces that needed [...]