I use paprika in pretty much everything I cook
Smoked paprika. It just adds so much depth to anything that I add it to! I’m also a big fan of cumin and turmeric.
Cinnamon. Love it to bits.
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Could you guide me on where to get some from a reputable, honest seller? There is none and I mean none in my city and I have looooooked and looked. I detest A-Z, too much tomfoolery and fake stuff.
Bebir (Aleppo pepper) - it’s a very mild red smoked chili that has incredible earthiness, and only a soupçon of warmth. I put this in everything, even dishes that are supposed to taste bright
Espresso - I make lazy pot espresso and save the dregs. I put the coffee in so many dishes. Sometimes where the base ingredients are too acidic or sweet. But I will also add it in gravy, sauces, stews, braise my meat with it. A couple tablespoons in a pot of spicy soup. It’s so versatile and deep
Cane sugars - raw, turbinado, or demerara - minimally processed where the molasses remains in the crystals. I know sugar has a bad reputation in our insane twisted diet lifestyle, but it’s fine for a cooking, and it’s amazing to caramelize things when frying or to take the edge off acidity. You need the tiniest amount. I will also pulverize it in a mortar and pestle… A teaspoon sprinkled on kettle corn is ludicrously delicious
Does cooking with espresso mean all your food is caffeinated? Or does it cook out eventually like alcohol?
That’s a good question.
I don’t know if the molecule is destroyed or transformed.
But I use so little that it wouldn’t affect anybody anyways… I don’t even think a child who is naive to the molecule would feel a thing
Edit… My curiosity got the best of me, I wasn’t able to Google the answer directly, but I found articles asking if reheating coffee destroys the molecule. Apparently an organic chemist got involved and stated that the molecules pretty stable, it will only break down around 350 F. So that would mean most of my food probably has the full effect of whatever caffeine was there.
I accidentally poisoned a love interest when I made her lasagna with espresso in the sauce. Turned out she was allergic to coffee, not caffeine. I didn’t know… but whoops a daisy lol
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You sound confident, like you know things!
I feel like the espresso I brew isn’t really that potent? I get a 330ml mug of espresso out of 10g coffee grounds. And then it’s not even real espresso, it’s just crummy stove top pot “espresso”. I started drinking it that way because I was poor and it was a great way to get a lot of flavor for a little coffee grounds. Which I’d also occasionally recycle haha. But I’d be curious to know how actually potent it becomes. How would a person measure such a thing?
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I checked those out and the information is just vague.
They will say things like a 8 oz cup of coffee has 90 mg of caffeine. They won’t tell you how much ground coffee was used to achieve that.
They use weasel statements like espresso will have more, longer brew times will have more. Vague descriptions like “a typical 12 oz coffee will have 95 mg of caffeine, depending on how much coffee grounds were used”
Okay lol
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Parsley, if that counts. I don’t really enjoy spicy food 😄
I hate parsley! I genuinely hate it. You can have all mine
My grandmother put it on everything. Dried. I never thought it had much flavor as a kid.
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Neither one sounds you advocate for parsley. 🤣
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Good tips thanks 😊
Seems like a good plan ha ha
“All the spices!” lol I really enjoy Tarragon and Black Garlic. Not necessarily together.
Salt and pepper in every dish. Hands down my favorite.
I mean its in nearly every dang recipe, at least salt almost always is.
table salt and ground black pepper are the undisputed most powerful power couple of all western food
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Sumac! And garlic, paprika, and asafoetida. Love ‘em all
Oh my God sumac is so good as a topping on slightly oily beef… Droool
The only 5 spices you’ll ever need:
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Salt
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Pepper
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Onion powder
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Garlic powder
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MSG
There is nothing, and I mean nothing, that doesn’t benefit from these 5. You can always add other spices, too, but these are the baseline for every single dish that isn’t meant to be sweet. And even on some sweet stuff, it’s pretty good. I tried it on waffles once and it was amazing.
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Smoked paprika ‼
Bay leaves in savory dishes
Nutmeg on/in sweet things
Nutmeg also rocks in mashed potatoes and cheese sauces!
I consume both those things frequently, I’ll have to try it! I switched to freshly grinding my nutmeg earlier this year and will take any excuse to try it in different things.
I bought five nutmeg nuts two years ago… I’m halfway through my third one lol
Doesn’t take much hey
Oooh that’s a good price for 12 lb of nutmeg
See, now you have something useful to leave for the next generation
I wanna say cilantro, but…
Can’t go wrong with a combination of garlic, ginger, and chili pepper.
Smoked paprika, cumin, ground coriander, cayenne pepper, cardamon
There are so many more, but these are probably my most frequent flyers
Black cumin and rosemary, sometimes habareno pepper
What do you think habanero goes well with? My father had no taste buds and could really only detect oil, salt, fat, and heat. Naturally this lead to him overloading in one area or another, because that’s all he wanted to taste. One time he served me pizza with crushed habanero and the floral perfuminess bowled me over. I’ve never really used them since, but I remember loving them before that incident!!
