Kajikit wrote:
>
> My fiance just moved into a new apartment and he's setting it up for
> us. I'm going to be doing the cooking, so he asked me how much
> cookware I really need... I said that the bare minimum was a large
> deep frypan, one large saucepan, one smaller saucepan, and a steamer,
> with an omelette-pan as a luxury cause I love my eggs...
>
> What do you think? What else are the bare essentials for an empty
> apartment? He's got a 4-place dinner set for us that a friend donated,
> but so far that's it! We're on a shoe-string budget here folks, so
> while specialised whizzers, dicers and slicers might be nice we can't
> have them...

Why don't you check out thrift stores, like that, for (as Michael said)
some kind of Dutch oven type of thing, and some more plates, for cheap?
Cutlery, too. Etc.

nancy