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What are some little additions you always made to dishes as a kid that have carried over into your adolescence/adulthood?

At some point, my mom made me a bowl of chicken soup and added some thyme, and I thought it was the greatest thing ever. From that moment on, I would always add a bunch of thyme to chicken soup whenever I had it.

I hardly cook at all, and chicken soup is still the only use I have for thyme. It's a good use, though.

>> No.6415691

>>6415686
>chicken soup is still the only use I have for thyme

Thyme is probably the most versatile herb there is. It goes with every kind of meat I can think of and it's even good on vegetables. If I had to pick just one herb it would be thyme

>> No.6415699

>>6415691
you wouldn't put thyme in a deli meat sandwich.

>> No.6415704

>>6415699
yes I would

>> No.6415707

>>6415699
you wouldn't download thyme

>> No.6415759
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6415759

A 1
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steaksauce.

>> No.6415768

>>6415686
Probably using onion soup mix as a sauce base. Its cheap, yummy, and you can use it in tons of stuff. Works really well in 10-minute stroganoff.

>> No.6415772

>>6415759
>mfw I realized it's fucking awesome with any meat especially pork

>> No.6415922
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6415922

>>6415686
This shit right here. Picked it up in a Indian market, and add it to any meat I'm cooking. It really adds a nice flavour to the meat(really salty so only use a few drops).

>> No.6415924

>>6415686
thyme is GOAT herb

>> No.6416333

I put lemon on almost everyone, I even squeeze the juice into my mouth after I'm done eating.
It started off putting it in my cup of noodles when I was younger.

>> No.6416337

>>6415922
this shit rocks, but it's literally liquid MSG. makes it more awesaome.

>> No.6416339

>>6415686
fuck year, i love thyme
it always reminds me of thanksgiving stuffing

>> No.6416342

>>6416339
>for that thyme of year again

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6416347

>>6416342
>if you're starved, you can look and you will eat me
>thyme after thyme

>> No.6416351

>>6416347
>you can look
>not you should cook

>> No.6416352

my mum used to put bananas in fish pie. i rarely make myself fish pie but every time i have it elsewhere i think it's missing the banana.

she also put chickpeas in ratatouille and would roast bananas in orange juice, both of which i like doing especially when i'm cooking for kids.

she was never that good at using herbs though.

>>6415699

you could've thought of a better example dude, i sure as shit wouldn't turn that down.

>> No.6416354

>>6416351
GRILLS JUST WANNA HAVE BUNS

>> No.6416355

>>6415686
Ya know OP, fresh thyme is really nice with a good dry rub on ribeye steaks. Grill over a 6-700 degree heat source with natural lump coals for 4 minutes on each side. Call me when they're done

>> No.6416361

was it dried or fresh thyme OP? i always found they have a very different flavour. dried thyme tastes a bit like chicken stock cubes to me (though obviously it's actually the reverse that's true)

>> No.6416890

>>6416361
It was dried. It's never even occurred to me to try fresh. Nothing against it. Just dried is what I always did.

>> No.6416922

>>6416890
>It's never even occurred to me to try fresh

Jesus Christ, what is the world coming to when dried and processed foods are "normal", and fresh food is somehow exotic or not what people use first.

>> No.6417024

>>6416922
It's become fedora tipping, gaylord.

>> No.6417032

>>6416922
Dry herbs and spices are pretty "normal"

>> No.6417064

>>6416922

yeah i bet you use fresh turmeric all the time

>> No.6417077

>>6417032

That's the problem, and the point I was trying to make.

Dried is an inferior substitute when you cannot get the proper, fresh, ingredient. In the past that was a compromise people had to make. But these days we have high speed global transportation, refrigeration, etc. There's no need to buy dried thyme anymore when fresh is readily available pretty much anywhere.

How sad is it that we can carry around a powerful computer with a touch-screen in our pockets so we can watch the latest stupid shit someone posted on youtube, but we still consider dried thyme to be "normal"? Fuck that. Backwards priorities.

>> No.6417093

>>6417077
95% of the time I buy fresh herbs they go bad before I can use them all and it really isn't worth it to me

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6417096

>>6417064

Actually, I do. The powdered stuff as very little flavor compared to fresh.

>> No.6417101

>>6417093

That happens to me if it's an oddball spice that I don't use very often. But stuff like thyme, rosemary, bay leaves, etc, are so commonly used in western cooking that it's not so hard to use 'em up.

>> No.6417104

>>6417096

i know, but it's way harder to get in western countries than dried.

>> No.6417105

>>6417077

dried is not inherently inferior, just different. check your privilege.

>> No.6417110

>>6417104

Nah, it's easy. Pick up that thing you use to text your BFFs. Forget about that for a minute and use it to call a place that sells spices. Place an order. If you don't want to talk to an actual human being then you can order online instead. Then wait a few days, and BAM, you're set.

>> No.6417116

>>6417110

shut the fuck up you smug cunt holy shit.

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6417927

Getting this thread back on track...

One time, one of my dad's coworkers told me to try putting Tabasco on pizza. I was maybe 10 years old and we'd had Domino's delivered to the computer store he ran.

It worked fantastically. Ever since then, Tabasco has been my go-to for making average pizza better. It works so well on frozen and national chains.