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What is your favorite spice/herb you use when cooking? Mine is garlic.

Posted - April 14, 2018

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  • 1713
    Rosemary and basil. That's like the only herb I use. I don't really like many spices.
      April 14, 2018 7:05 PM MDT
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  • 44619
    I use lots of them in my pasta sauce.
      April 15, 2018 1:10 AM MDT
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  •          "GINGER"
      April 14, 2018 7:18 PM MDT
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  • 1633

                                            "GINGER'
      April 14, 2018 9:55 PM MDT
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  • Does she know how to cook though!?
      April 14, 2018 11:06 PM MDT
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  • 44619
    I'm sure she could stir up something.
      April 15, 2018 1:11 AM MDT
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  • 2052

    hahahahaha
      April 15, 2018 5:31 AM MDT
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  • 1633
    When all you have to work with are fish, coconuts and bananas yet you manage to create a total spread... my answer would be yes
      April 15, 2018 9:39 AM MDT
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  • 2658
    Garlic and lemon/pepper seasoning...

      April 14, 2018 7:41 PM MDT
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  • 5835
    Cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, ... and citric acid. Having many cans of lemon pie filling, not a great brand, I and ginger to the crumb crust and citric acid to the lemon filling. 

    If you are familiar with Starburst candy, citric acid is the ingredient that "makes your mouth water".

    I also make a lot of rice pudding and I add nutmeg to give it more flavor. Sherry and brandy are what it really needs, but I refuse to pay the prices.
      April 14, 2018 9:16 PM MDT
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  • 53509


      Hey, wait!  You know those two sisters  Sherry and Brandy, too?  And here I was thinking they were my little secret. (By the way, they never charge me!  Hmmmmm.)


    ~
      April 15, 2018 9:19 AM MDT
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  • 17596
    Garlic is my favorite too.  I like all of the savory ones as well...rosemary, thyme, basil, sage, cumin, tumeric, etc.  I use chives a lot as well as crushed red pepper and paprika.   And then sometimes I cook my food plainly without added flavors just to enjoy the actual food, especially veggies. 
      April 14, 2018 10:29 PM MDT
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  • 53509

      Two: oregano and parsley. (But it's been more than a decade since I've cooked.)
    ~
      April 14, 2018 10:59 PM MDT
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  • 16792
    Parsley is gharsley (Ogden Nash). I'm with you on Oregano, Italian is unthinkable without it.
      April 15, 2018 12:12 AM MDT
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  • 44619
    Nicey wifey?
      April 15, 2018 1:13 AM MDT
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  • 53509

      Had I continued cooking, my children would have died as toddlers, either from food poisoning or starvation, and I'd be in prison right now.
    ~
      April 15, 2018 4:08 AM MDT
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  • Red pepper flakes--good in every Italian dish. And thyme seems to be in almost everything I cook. 
      April 14, 2018 11:26 PM MDT
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  • 16792
    I wouldn't call garlic a herb or spice, it's a vegetable like onion and a basic in almost everything I cook.

    So those excluded, for me it's oregano.
      April 14, 2018 11:54 PM MDT
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  • 44619
    spīs/
    noun
    noun: spice; plural noun: spices

    1.
    an aromatic or pungent vegetable substance used to flavor food, e.g., cloves, pepper, or mace.
      April 15, 2018 6:55 AM MDT
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  • 6098
    I consider garlic a vegetable.  Same with ginger, turmeric, or horseradish root.  Herbs to me are little, green, and aromatic. Or which I use mostly dill, parsley, and cilantro, depending on what I am making.  Not everything is good with them. Occasionally a mint.  Dill with soups, root vegetables. Parsley with kasha varnitchkes or tabouli. Cilantro with whole wheat pasta.  I bruise them fist.  Occasionally rosemary with parsnips, sage with carrots, and or course basils in pestos or noodles.
      April 15, 2018 6:48 AM MDT
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  • 44619
    spīs/
    noun
    noun: spice; plural noun: spices

    1.
    an aromatic or pungent vegetable substance used to flavor food, e.g., cloves, pepper, or mace.
      April 15, 2018 6:56 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    I never put cloths on my food ,it makes them so hard to skin.... Skining them is what I find most a'peeling ,don't Hugh ....:)D 
      April 15, 2018 7:15 AM MDT
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  • 14795
    When I was a Cannibal ,it use to be Herb Alpert .........Now I've gone right of noisey food ,even though they're  Cheap and going for a Song    :(
      April 15, 2018 7:11 AM MDT
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  • 44619
    Just stay away from my uncle Herb. He is rather dried up, but still breathing. He likes blondes, too. And feet.
      April 15, 2018 7:18 AM MDT
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