...Other than salt and pepper
For me it's cumin. It's one of the few spices I buy in bulk and actually use up my supply.
In the winter it may lean towards cardamom thanks to copious amounts of chia.
Paprika
Paprika is the ultimate understudy of black pepper
Feel kinda bad for white pepper for coming third in a two horse race
Spursy, even
Smoked paprika
Garlic and thyme. Where thyme is, there is garlic. If there is garlic, most of the thyme there is thyme.
Both herbs, not spices.
I just looked it up and found out there ist a difference, who would have guessed. I'm with you on the thyme part, but since garlic is growing as a root, it should be a spice, or am I missing something?
Since thyme is out I'd like to replace it with cardamom. 2~3 pods per person with every rice dish is amazing.
Cumin
I buy cumin seeds in bulk and grind them as needed.
I also use turmeric and ground mustard a lot too.
Cinnamon, easily, though cumin is a close-ish second. I put cinnamon in my porridge, in chilli and dahl, on beans, over cornflakes, and so much more.
Cinnamon goes great on roasted mushrooms. I really didn't appreciate how savory cinnamon could be before.
I've never roasted mushrooms, but that sounds delicious.
Garlic by far. Salt, Pepper, Garlic.
After that I use quite a bit of cumin
Basically almost everything I cook has these in there with salt & pepper. Even if I'm using onion and garlic in the recipe.
Is garlic a spice or an ingredient? I use a lot of fucking garlic.
For spice i love paprika
I don't know exactly what counts as spice ? I use a bit of shoyu (japanese name of fermented soy sauce) for broths and the like. Beer yeast for salads. A selection of chilis from Mada or Sénégal for some pleasant hotness. Curcuma grows everywhere around here so it's also a staple. Same for ginger, and the wild variant "tsingiziou masera" -although I have been buying east african ginger recently because it's cheaper.
Green pepper seeds from northern Mada, they're not hot at all, just pleasantly crunchy and savoury.
When I get nostalgic of Provence I cook with garlic, olive oil and parsley (for seafood) or I use the wild basel that grows here during kashikazi (rainy season) : small leaves, strong taste, a little different from the mediterranean species.
I'm a slut for rosemary and garlic, with paprika being my go-to for more robustly flavored dishes. Herbes de Provence is a nice blend as well, if you like those, but it is on the lighter side. Good for chicken salad and whatnot
Probably paprika
Smoked paprika, I have both spicy and sweet. Spicy goes so well with hash browns and baked potatoes
Onion/garlic powder. In roughly equal quantities.
Black pepper.
Or if we're going off stuff that isn't a condiment red pepper flakes which I put on tons of stuff or by volume garlic powder
Smoked paprika and Italian seasoning (hopefully doesn’t make me too basic lol)
Hondashi
Gochujang, laoganma
Ginger, soy sauce, roasted sesame, white pepper
I think you know what kinds of food I really like
My local Asian market sells powdered sriracha sauce. If you get this in your kitchen, everything you cook will be sweet, sour, spicy, and red for about a week before it's gone. It's fucking good.
Black pepper. Fresh ground black pepper on everything. That and garlic are the only one I use in bulk
Lately I’ve been experimenting with variety so after that I have way too many different choices. My spice cupboard long since overflowed onto my counter and it’s definitely to the point where I need to plan certain cuisines so I use up spices while they’re still relatively fresh
Capsaicin
"Melange" - Spacing Guild Navigator, probably
Some top ones for me: MSG, Chicken Bouillon, Smoked Paprika, Thyme, Garlic powder, and finally, controversially, bay leaves.
MSG goes in basically anything. If it gets salt and pepper it's probably also getting MSG for me. I do a lot of chicken, and whenever I do I'm almost always adding some chicken bouillon to add some flavor to it. I really love Thyme, and find myself just adding it somewhat randomly to things. Smoked Paprika is a perfect flavor that's so unique, I add it to anything I want to have a bit of a kick, like chili, ect. Not that it's like spicy or anything, just it adds a little something to those dishes that you can't really get elsewhere. Garlic powder is an all around great utility, and I tend to "dump" this stuff on things.
Last but not least, Bay leaves. I swear, I'm like the #1 consumer of these things. I throw them in anything. Anything savory with a decent sauce/soupy base is PERFECT to add a bay leaf to. If you use em often you can really taste the difference, since fresh bay leaves really pack a punch in flavor.
I planted herbs all around my house, so I always have fresh herbs available. But I almost always end up using thyme, occasionally rosemary.
People here keep saying garlic, which I also use extensively but I don't think of it as a spice.
Probably bay leaves. I make a lot of stock at home. I find you can't really taste bay directly but you notice if it's not there.
I also use a lot of cumin, coriander, and oregano. Various chili powders. Anchor powder is very nice and not too spicy.
Buying a nice mortar and pestle set was one of my best kitchen investments. Fresh ground spices are a game changer.
toasting seeds before grinding them is really nice.
Melange of course. Really gives you that baked in sand worm flavor without having to catch one.
Rosemary salt, as I grow my own rosemary. Also got thyme and sage that I will probably add to it.
Probably onion powder or oregano. I use garlic and ginger powder just as often, but in much smaller amounts. You really can't add too much onion.
Coriander in every dish along with salt and pepper. People just don't realize how much it adds to food. Garlic and onion powder in 95% of the dishes
Garlic or onion powder; maybe dill, after that?
Fun fact: before it became mass produced sugar was originally considered a spice
The always underestimated nutmeg.
This probably is gonna give away more info about me than it should (iykyk)
Hatch Green Chili powder. I put a little bit of that stuff in and near everything, except in chili season, where I use fire roasted fresh green chilies instead.
Edit: Autocorrect for->fire
Ground sumac is not widely known in the US, but it adds a tangy freshness. I like it on avocado toast.
cardamom is exotic in coffee. Rosemary and potatos just work.
Coriander, is my favorite, though I like cumin too. Paprika (Against what seems to be popular I don't care for the smoked stuff just plain), and I also love cardamom! I add a bit to every sweet I make just about. I really like getting a nice good quality chocolate bar and chopping it for chocolate chip cookies. Cardamom goes really well in these cookies imo. Love it
I also have hatch green chili pepper, aleppo pepper, oregano I grow myself and I use it a lot.
Cayenne pepper, and a lot of it. Curry is next
Top 5 , In order :
Basicly never use ordinary (salt|pepper) , so boring
I love cumin. I use it way more than anyone else i know.
Been buying it in bulk for years because it just such a good savoury option.
garlic no question
Paprika I've found to be pretty key for anything chicken.
But I use MSG for basically everything now.
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