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What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:11 am
by djimbe_Archive
geiginni wrote: Love
I'm shocked it took so many posts for this one to come up, members of the PRF. You can't cook a meal worth a damn if you don't care about what you're doing.
I put fresh ground coriander seed in practically everything savory I make. I think I use it more than pepper...
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:23 pm
by dontfeartheringo_Archive
I have nearly nothing to add to this thread, except to say that I am a huge fan of black pepper, as most native southerners use it the way Serbians use paprika.
It becomes a dominant note, performing the role of base of the dish, almost like a roux, in things like pinto beans, turnip greens, collard greens, various meat soups, the breading for fried things, etc.
Fuck, suddenly I am starving.
I cook like a native son- bacon fat is saved in the fridge for use in making all sorts of other dishes. I don't know if this is as bad for me as conventional wisdom would imply. We used to augment hog and cattle feed with corn oil to fatten them up in preparation for slaughtering. I have always wondered why corn oil is offered as a "healthy" alternative to lard. It seems to me that the law of diminishing returns would mean that the meat and fat made from calories present in corn would be less fattening than the corn itself.
Anyone have an opinion on this?
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 1:57 pm
by MRoyce_Archive
I cannot live without garlic. Same with olive oil and bacon. Oh, and pickles need to go on every sandwich that I make(not the kosher kind, though).
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 2:51 pm
by PEPPER!_Archive
garlic
onion
duck fat
olive oil
butter
paprika or hot sauce or both
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 3:00 pm
by that damned fly_Archive
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:02 pm
by lemur68_Archive
dontfeartheringo wrote:bacon fat is saved in the fridge for use in making all sorts of other dishes. I don't know if this is as bad for me as conventional wisdom would imply.
Anyone have an opinion on this?
My dad would also cook with bacon grease.
I reiterate.
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:05 pm
by chet_Archive
Josef K wrote:Olive oil, garlic, onion.
Yep, same here, with nice black pepper and kosher or sea salt. No table salt. Table salt is awful; one of the major reasons why restaurant food tastes so much better, I've been told, is because they don't use table salt.
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:38 pm
by Ty Webb_Archive
ringo, I have the coffee can of bacon drippings in the fridge too. Stay the course. Only Yankees want to live forever.
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 5:56 pm
by eeyore_Archive
nutritional yeast and braggs. magic.
What s your most used ingredient when preparing a meal?
Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 6:27 pm
by Mark Hansen_Archive
The phone when I order something for delivery.