Favourite ingredient/spice/fruit/vegetable in the kitchen

[The_Ogre]

So hot of the heals of this thread http://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/458047-Your-favourite-can-t-do-without-kitchen-utensil-s, what's your favourite?

For me its tomatoes

 

[I.am.Sam]

salt



i think i like my potatoes tho

 

[cerebus]

Cumin, it's the spice of champions.

 

[maumau]

garlic - and lots of it

 

[greg0205]

Olive oil, salt and pepper...

 

[blunomore]

Olive oil
Onions
Garlic
Fresh chillies

 

[ShaunSA]

Green chillies narrowly beaten by curry leaves

 

[SinghDude]

fresh garlic
onions
tomatoes
chillies

 

[USZA]

Veggie stock; it beats chicken or beef stock hands-down

 

[dualmeister]

Ina Paarman's Vegetable Spice. Put it on all my veggies

 

[Pooky]

MSG

 

[DJ...]

My latest affliction is for liquid smoke. I cook far too much of a variety to specify a single ingredient as my favourite to work with though. A few months ago it would have been salt, but these days I tend to make flavour reductions to bolster flavours instead of adding salt...

 

[TheStorm]

Green Pepper
Red Pepper
Yellow Pepper
Garlic and Ginger

 

[_Jakes_]

My latest affliction is for liquid smoke. I cook far too much of a variety to specify a single ingredient as my favourite to work with though. A few months ago it would have been salt, but these days I tend to make flavour reductions to bolster flavours instead of adding salt...

Is there anyway to reduce the stink of garlic the day after? Some idiot at my wifes work told her that she stank of garlic so now I'm not allowed to use it in my food anymore.

 

[Deep78]

garlic .... tons n tons of it

and mushrooms just cant get enough of them!

 

[RustyPrincess]

Coriander - In fresh and dried form

 

[Deep78]

Is there anyway to reduce the stink of garlic the day after? Some idiot at my wifes work told her that she stank of garlic so now I'm not allowed to use it in my food anymore.

is it that she stank of garlic personally or the food she was eating for lunch? if it was her get her to eat
mango achar with lots of methi masala in it you will never again get complaints of your garlic use

oh she'll still smell though not of garlic but methi

 

[_Jakes_]

is it that she stank of garlic personally or the food she was eating for lunch? if it was her get her to eat
mango achar with lots of methi masala in it you will never again get complaints of your garlic use

oh she'll still smell though not of garlic but methi

No it was that typical day after waft of garlic. I don't think I'll be able to convince her to eat archar.

 

[greg0205]

No it was that typical day after waft of garlic. I don't think I'll be able to convince her to eat archar.

Dude, garlic is everyone else's problem, never yours. Tell your wife to tell her colleague the grow a pair and finish his Tofu.

 

[_Jakes_]

I've been sneaking the garlic back into my dishes hopefully the people around her will build up a tolerance for it.