Sometimes I think bland is delicious

[Licorice Donut]

Sometimes, I think bland is delicious in its sheer absence of offense. This is why macaroni and cheese is so scrumptious. But usually I want lots of spices in my food. (Okay so Curry isn't a particular spice, it's a combination of stuff but most of us know it as curry powder because it has that distinct CURRY-taste. You know what I mean.)

Which spice is your favorite? Or just the best? See I'm inclined to say I like Saffron the best but after much deliberation I'd have to say I think Ginger is the all time best all around champion of spices. It's the Superman of spice. It can do anything. While Batman may be more refined, he just can't beat Superman in all arenas. I sound like a dork.

Here's the basis for my decision. Ginger tastes good in both sweet and savory dishes. That can't be said for many spices. It is powerful but not painfully spicey. It tingles in the nose making for a pleasant sensation in your whole head. It even tastes good in tea. The subtlty of its power spreads over your palate in fullness and power without striking into your taste experience like a dagger. It's good with with citrus fruit, apples, chicken, all veggies, and also with creamy eggs and butter.

This is a tough decision because saffron is absolutely euphoric to taste. It doesn't matter that it isn't as versatile. It's so calming and warm. Okay I changed my mind. I pick Saffron, best spice on earth! Someone get me the number to the United Saffron Growers of whatever. I want to be on their PR team. I think we can push saffron like never before. Saffron soda, saffron gum, saffron ice cream and saffron soap and beauty products. Saffron could be the new cranberry. Instead of Cran-this and Cran-that we'll make Saff-this and Saff-that. It's a saff-universe.

[Lindsey_1535]

I say Garlic. My mommy puts it in everything

[Licorice Donut]

Ketchup

You're out of your element! Ketchup is blasphemy.

[Futterman's]

¡GiNgEr!

[Licorice Donut]

I didn't know you were Italian. How Italian are you? I am too. I don't know how much. Some on both my mother's and father's sides. My dad's mother was born in Italy. But I'm also Scottish and some blend of Eastern European Slavic mutt. So what spice would those be? Oh wait a tic, that must be why I like bland food! (lb)

[Lindsey_1535]

Smirnoff?
That was my thought, and I made myself laugh

[ms.peachy]

I can't possibly be expected to choose just one! :eek:

[Licorice Donut]

MS.PEACHY. OBEY. SUBMIT. CONFORM. DO IT.

[Licorice Donut]

I can't believe it, GARLIC is winning! Come on you guys, garlic is like the dolphin of spices. Sure they're cute and everyone thinks they're nice but didn't you know that dolphins are jerks? I'm serious, they're the frat boys of the ocean.

I love my analogies <3

[ms.peachy]

MS.PEACHY. OBEY. SUBMIT. CONFORM. DO IT.


Never! I have a full spice rack and windowboxes with herbs, and I'm not afraid to use them! Stay back!

[Licorice Donut]

I'm so not funny

[little j]

i use garlic EVERYTIME i cook.

[Whois]

Now I have to ask, which KIND of curry?!?

[Whois]

i use garlic EVERYTIME i cook.

I'd hate to taste your desserts...

[little j]

i dont cook desserts

[Licorice Donut]

Now I have to ask, which KIND of curry?!?

Any kind.

[ToucanSpam]

Garlic in the wrong hands equals a really bad date.

Good for fending off vampires though.

[Licorice Donut]

I wonder who decided it would be garlic that would fend of vampires??

[aenema]

I put pepper on everything. I love the smell and twang.

[Paul Kemp]

sage and thyme are herbs, not spices.

[jennyb]

My latest obsession is what I like to call 'vietnamese ketchup'

It's that hot sauce with the rooster on the front of the bottle. I've been putting it on everything lately.

[b-grrrlie]

I really really really really hate saffron and I don't like turmeric either. I only use its flowers in icecubes or icecoolers (take a baking tin with a hole, put some turmeric flowers and other flowers, fill the bottom with water, let it freeze and then repeat the procedure for a few times to get flowers all over the tin and hey presto you've got a great cooler for shrimps or even a winebottle, if the hole is big enough, to use in you bbq. not suitable for indoor use unless you've got a bucket to put the cooler in and that isn't so pretty then).

My favourite spice have to be combined ginger and garlic, they complement each other so well, but as you can only vote for one I voted for ginger.

[Francesca]

I picked black pepper because I put it on everything, but I was torn because I use a lot of garlic.

[jabumbo]

i use garlic EVERYTIME i cook.

me too, that and usually a dash of jalepeno powder


so yeah, garlic if for me, and then i would have to say curry. i dont have it myself, but its good stuff

[cosmo105]

ROSEMARY!

[Rancid_Beasties]

I selected garlic because its in most things good, but also because one of my favourite meals, chicken kiev, uses garlic butter which is awesome.

But I agree, I like some bland stuff. Like for instance plain rice. Seriously, I dont need soy or anything just plain rice (y)

[discopants]

"What on this menu's only a little bit bland?"
"The steak and kidney pudding"
"I'll have that".

[discopants]

^I meant pie. I wasn't concentrating.

[Nuzzolese]

Sometimes the quisine of the UK sounds, to me, like a child made it up one morning when his mother asked him what he wanted, out of anything at all.
"I want steak pie"
"I want apples and pork in a pastry"
But I love hearing about it, anything different from the same old sludge Americans eat.

[discopants]

Sometimes the quisine of the UK sounds, to me, like a child made it up one morning when his mother asked him what he wanted, out of anything at all.
"I want steak pie"
"I want apples and pork in a pastry"
But I love hearing about it, anything different from the same old sludge Americans eat.

At our house we have a big pasty thing with mushrooms and sausage meat. Does this come under your classification. It's nice.

[steve-onpoint]

This is why macaroni and cheese is so scrumptious.

I'll tell you: despite the partially hydrogenated oils, I'm enjoying this here Stouffer's Macaroni And Chee this early Monday.

"A heaping helping of fried chicken,
Macaroni and cheese and collard greens
Too big for my jeans"

For three points: Anyone? Anyone? (Voodoo Economics).