/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I season my ground beef with a little cinnamon.

A little MSG

semen

>>4578196
Right on /b/rother!

in steamed rice its salt. people never add enough salt

in chocolat its a little pepper. A WOWEEE

Butter, on everything.

Dill weed in egg dishes, extra fat butter with everything.

>>4578277
You are now French.

Chilli. Not for heat, but for their taste.

Can go with heaps of things to step them up to the next level.

fucking cocoa powder

>>4578306
extra fat butter?

Yoghurt in hummus.

Makes bitches crazy.

Ginger

Using red and green peppercorns instead of just plain black ones, they've got a fruity taste/smell.

Cloves

>>4578182
Porcini powder in pretty much everything forever. I just fucking love mushrooms.

Anything asian gets a few hits of lemon sake, too.

anchovies. especially when your serving vegetarians

I grind my salt fresh with a burr grinder. It unlocks the flavor. Serving stale pre-ground salt is for people who don't know what they're doing.

spaghetti sauce - grape jelly
pancake batter - beer
broccoli soup - flour
everything - butter instead of olive oil (unless frying)

Coconut oil in curry sauce.

I call it Colonblow Curry.

>>4578868
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>>4578182
I'm not a very good cook but I work hard at making my recipes as perfect as possible within the limitations of my kitchen so I'd say my secret ingredient is tenacity.

when I comes to chili I put some cock sauce in it.

adding chicken stock in the the milk when making a cheese sauce

sage + bay leaf + rosemary + thyme in vol au vent sauces

>>4578884
>spaghetti sauce - grape jelly

Sounds horrible.

Love

>>4578884
>pancake batter - beer

Which beer?

I've had beer battered chips and they were lush but I'm assuming it's like cooking wine, in that you don't pour in just any beer

>>4579005

I'm not the guy you're replying to, but I would guess a light beer or a pilsner. The point is that the carbonation helps the pancakes be fluffy. I don't think you'd want your pancake to taste like an ale or a stout.

>>4578369

>>4579001
D'aww

black pepper and cumin

>>4579329
is it actually called "cumin"? oh lawd

Parmesan cheese.

Cum.

My guests have no clue.

>>4579337
God damn, you must actually be 12.

Nutmeg in meatballs

>>4579337
boards.4chan.org/r9k/

you seem to have lost your way

In lemonade, it's rosemary.

Make a simple syrup, boil zest from two lemons, steep a spring of rosemary for a bit, then mix with lemon juice.

Gives it this really delicious round flavor that complements the bite of the lemons really well.

White pepper in green beans

>>4578196
>>4579363
Go to bed Tyler Durden

>>4579021
>Not being this much of an alcoholic.

>>4578182
A little Honey for most meat dishes.
Olive oil for pea and green beans, instead of butter.

Butter, salt and sugar to almost errything

>>4579021
I actually use just carbonated water when making pancakes/crepes/waffles

>>4578995
it's like honey boo boo's mom really posts on /ck/

>>4579488
I use Rootbeer for pancakes. Add pecans and it's an amazing breakfast.

>>4579404
I just started doing this! People look at me like I'm crazy when I say I put rosemary in lemonade, but it's really good. Helps that I have plenty of it growing like weeds outside my house.

>>4579404
That actually sounds amazing and I don't know why I've never thought of it, thanks!

Any kind of meat dish...garlic.
Baking...extra virgin olive oil.

>>4579704
Can you educate me in the differences between olive oils?

>>4579463
>A little Honey for most meat dishes.

Honey can be amazing in a BBQ.

>>4578995
Why would it? The point about tomato sauce is that it's sour, but also has that tiny bit of sweetness that tomato naturally has. The grape jelly simply enhances the fruity note.

OT: Soy sauce in salad dressings

>>4579709

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olive_oil#Commercial_grades

>>4579709
> extra virgin
first pressing of the olives

> anything but extra virgin
crap

>>4578993
Yesssss. Sage, rosemary, paprika is my secret combo. Bay leaves and thyme for certain dishes as well.

Its pretty standard actually, but I'm amazed at how many places will omit the first three in say a roasted chicken dish.

>>4579044
I thought that was just normal butter...

>>4579834
Not in the U.S., there's 5-10% less fat in your usual american made butters.

>>4578191
GET OUT

>>4579001
THIS

>>4579730
More like
>both
Shitty oil mix made by italian mafia

>>4580253
Someone reads Cracked...

yeah, yeah. somtimes undewwear, and i really don' undestand the need for certain openings sometimes, in fact most times i sleep in the nude.shocking. but that is their, or anyones right. as a mostly methodist/ calvanisist/ jewiish/ catholiic i am not particularrly enamored but i ubderstand. eben if agnmostic a bit. but pre ceptsof this nation supercede. poligimy it is wrong, and particullarly when involvingunkowing people. and yes the spelling was intentional.

>>4580316
What the hell are you on about?

>>4580315
ItaliAnon living in the US here.
I've heard this rumour, but am unsure if it's true or not. What I do know for certain, however, is that every olive oil I've tried imported from Italy in the US is complete rubbish. I buy Greek, Turkish and North African olive oils here and avoid Italian olive oil here entirely. I wouldn't touch it with a barge pole.

>>4579392
>Cumin
>Cum in
>A SPICE FOR SLUTS AND NORMALFAG CUCKOLDS ONLY

r9k logic

>>4580214
I always assumed cooks said this just to piss people off.

>>4580428
shit. thank you anon I've wondered that for so long. I always here olive oil should almost have a spicy note if its fresh and I've never tasted that in anything I've ever bought.

>>4580644
You ever wonder why people say nobody can make _____ like their grandma? Or why a simple thing like a sandwich made by your SO tastes better than if you made it for yourself? Cooking requires energy, the energy goes into the food, and if it's done by a person who is a positive influence in your life it's going to taste much better than what you or a random stranger is going to make.

>>4579498
>>4578884

Jellies are my secret ingredient in a lot of things.

Fig preserves on morocco chicken are excellent. Raspeberry preserves on brie is divine. And I keep putting lemon/lime jelly on everything hoping to find its perfect match. The closest I've found: bananas foster. Lemon jelly is fucking incredible on bananas foster.

I marinade steaks with a little ketchup.
I use velveeta for my pasta sauce

Curry powder in soups/stews.
Cinnamon on everything else.

>>4578191
People that use MSG are incompetent cook

>>4578866
Naughty duck

>>4578884
I don't understand how you can ever make grape jelly mae a spaghetti sauce taste good

>>4580428
Why don't you buy spanish oil? I mean, that's the oil you market to all the plebs overseas as italian.

>>4580962
weak troll is weak

I think my parents have never tasted nutmeg in their lives because every time I use it they RAVE about how awesome ____ tastes, and how I should be a "professional cook" and shit.

>>4578182
>Whats your secret ingredient /ck/?
Calling people niggers while cooking.

Anchovies in pasta dishes.

>>4581032
Spanish oil brands I've tried taste bad, too, and it's more expensive than the GrecoTurkish stuff I buy.

>>4579540
That sounds amazing. Any advice for how much rootbeer to add into the batter?

>>4578906
>>4579001
aww u guys

>>4578277
Are you paula deen?

>>4580509
Yeah that's what he meant.
That's what he meant.

I buttermilk brine my chikun before frying

i like usin salt and herbs on my food. I like chocolate cake

vegetarian oyster sauce. I get way too many compliments for my cooking to give that one out to everyone. Shit works with anything. Yesterday I made the best lasagna the guys who ate it ever had eaten with it.