Five Meals, Ten Ingredients

Right now, go and take a quick peek inside your fridge. Think you can do it? Well, in this video clip, Mark Bittman food writer and and author of How To Cook Everything shows you just how easy it is. (Love that shrimp and asparagus pasta dish!)

So watch here as he shows you exactly how to stock your pantry -- and make five (yes, count them...FIVE) dishes from the 10 average ingredients you should have on hand.

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