Spice Spice Baby
As I started exploring different recipes, my mind would always go back to the dishes that would made me stop and really taste the flavors. I was always interested in how some chefs could enhance the flavor of a dish and others, the dish was….well just ‘flat”.
In my early cooking days, I would use the same few seasons. Salt, pepper, seasoning salt and a creole seasoning (for spice).
Great food starts with great ingredients including the spices you choose. There are many online spice stores (a few are listed here, here, and here), but I’m lucky to have a local spice store only minutes from my house (for those times I run out of things and don’t want to wait a few days for a delivery).
One way to enhance the flavor of food is with spices. With more research, I’ve learned that: the fresher the spice, the more flavor the spice produce. Who would’ve thought you could buy higher quality spices? For years, I thought they were all the same.
Below are a few of my flavor spices right now (left to right; links are listed below).
“The secret of happiness is variety, but the secret of variety, like the secret of all spices, is knowing when to use it.”