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What ingredient can you not live without, and why?
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9 comments:
Salt. Absolutely. It goes in everything.
And you literally can't live without it.
Salt is a pretty important part of all my cooking, too! I also LOOOOOVE freshly ground black pepper. I put it on almost everything.
Yeah, it's amazing how much better freshly ground pepper tastes than that pre-ground stuff that restaurants put on the tables. I love watching my Basic Foods students when we do our spice tasting and they taste freshly ground pepper side by side with pre-ground.
Easy one—salt. Doi.
salt and hot sauce!
Kate, that's two! :)
My husband puts hot sauce on just about everything. It's crazy! I don't use it too much, but I do love chipotle Tabasco and that super-hot chili garlic sauce.
Oh, yeah, and I love to put Tabasco on popcorn!!
Definitely olive oil. I can cook without salt in a pinch, as it were (you can get by with soy sauce, for example), but I couldn't imagine life without good olive oil. Sauteeing, marinating, dressing, dipping... all depend on it.
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