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What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 7:58 pm
by trompuss_Archive
Cayenne pepper. For the last few years, I put it on damn near everything. I don't know what it is about the stuff. How it started was, my daughter always wanted to eat food off of my own plate, and when she was around 2, that meant slobbering all over my food and putting her hands on it. So I started putting cayenne on everything, because she hated anything spicy. And it just stuck. Anything Italian--cayenne pepper. Anything with a sauce, cayenne again. Making a sandwich? Well, hell yes! Cayenne on that too. About the only thing I don't put in on is ice cream.
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:03 pm
by yaledelay_Archive
zom-zom wrote:Heat. It does wonders.
Zom, I would go with Food, but hey, heat is a damn close 2nd...
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:31 pm
by iembalm_Archive
Kosher salt or Tabasco.
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 9:42 pm
by Mandroid20_Archive
Ach! You guys just reminded me:
I put that on almost everything that I eat, even if it's not used in the actual cooking.
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:07 pm
by unsaved_Archive
I love the taste of dried oregano and shake it all over pizza, pasta (of course), chicken, fish, beef, stir-fried veggies, mashed potatoes, on scrambled eggs with fresh mozzarella, even in chili.
Unfortunately, I never had much garlic until I was almost out of high school. My father (of German descent) hated it with a passion, and if my mother (of Swedish descent, but loved garlic) even put a trace amount of it in something, he could taste it. This was just powder--I never saw a garlic clove in the house during my entire childhood. The upside of this was that I also was never forced to eat liver, since the old man hated that too, having had to eat it every week when he was a kid.
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 10:20 pm
by lemur68_Archive
unsaved wrote:The upside of this was that I also was never forced to eat liver, since the old man hated that too, having had to eat it every week when he was a kid.
My dad loved liver.
He had a stroke at age 50.
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:29 pm
by Gareth Keenan_Archive
Spanish smoked paprika seems to end up on/in everything I cook.
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:38 pm
by lemur68_Archive
yaledelay wrote:zom-zom wrote:Heat. It does wonders.
Zom, I would go with Food
Not everyone agrees.
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 9:20 am
by six acre lake_Archive
I have been on a month long Thai food bender and have been using unholy and perhaps unhealthy? amounts of coconut milk...I buy the light variety at the trader joes or at the asian supermarket in south philly. Thai reminds me so much of mexican food in so much as it seems to be the same ten ingredients reconfigured to make a different meal.
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 10:49 am
by geiginni_Archive
Sea Salt
Butter/Olive Oil
Onions
Garlic
Paprika or Cayenne
Wine or vinegar
Love
