/ck/ - Food & Cooking

What's a basic, affordable, bar stock look like? As far as I'm aware I need a handful of different wines, juices, and pantry spices. Obviously results scale with cost, but I'm looking for something to make dollar store gin tolerable. Just mixing it into apple juice+triamedic isn't working for me anymore and I want to at least pretend to be fancy.

For what it's worth my usual appetizers served with it include dollar store cheese whiz, homemade sailor bread, raviolis and soup. Usually I'm able to hide the cheapness of the food with spices.