I remember reading a comment on here one time that said anytime you’ve got people coming over for dinner, cook some onions and garlic in oil, even if you don’t need them for the meal. The smell alone will both make your guests hungry and also get excited for a good meal (assuming they’re into food).
I like the idea.
Also, who’s not into food, people who don’t eat?
Lots of people don’t care about food, it’s just something to make them go from hungry to not hungry. “It fills a hole” is something I’ve heard many times, referring to food. Plenty of people just don’t care. I honestly was like that until I moved out and had to do the cooking myself. Now I can appreciate a home cooked meal or fancy restaurant meal more, but I’m still not a foodie. As long as it isn’t disgusting and it fills me up, I don’t really care. I’ll enjoy a nice meal more than a bland one, but I don’t have a strong feeling about it either way.
Cooking for my dad can be a little annoying sometimes because he’s definitely not a foodie. Many times my mom will make him a nice meal, ask him how it is, and his response is always “yeah it’s good” no matter what. Nowadays she cooks for herself and makes enough for him, because she knows he just doesn’t care, as long as it’s enough to fill him up. And I know a lot of people that are like that too.
I wish I could think of food as just fuel.
Silly human brain over here that loves food! Thinks about it all the time. All the time…
Stupid human brains.
What meal/cuisine wouldn’t benefit from onion and garlic though? Genuinely asking.
I add at least the powders to probably everything I cook, sometimes even white rice. But I’ve always wondered if I’m adding “wrong” seasoning to a dish when I use them!
(Eta: I also regularly cook with them but usually that’s when the recipe calls for it. I add the powders to browning meat or enhancing sauce etc regardless of recipe I just add them. )
Sweet meals maybe
like milk noodles/rice
Also maybe garlic with sushi, but onions workPowders, yes, basically every meal. But I don’t always sautée them. Powered doesn’t have the same smell, and you can’t always use sautéed onion and garlic in every meal.
I’ve long meant to publish a cookbook but since it’s probably not going to happen I’ll share my concept here. It was going to be called “it starts with an onion” About 90% of the dishes I make start this way. Even if a recipe doesn’t call for it, I’ll often just start with some diced onion in oil and then began the recipe. If you have some ingredients around and you are trying to think of what to do with them, envision a Dutch oven or frying pan with some softened salted chopped onions in it and start planning what you will add too it. It’s a solid start to many a meal. Also, don’t underestimate shallots. They are like if garlic and onion had a baby.
It starts with onions,
nice, small and diced,
set the pan temperature not too high
then add some olive oil, you’ll see why,
and then let them sauté until! They’re! Fine!
Amazing, I was thinking of the beat of the song reading the main text and here you are giving me lyrics to go with it before I could even ask or mention.
All I can think of for some reason is the Chemical Brothers song "it began in Africa - ca - ca "
I started watching TV cooking shows in the late 90s (e.g. Good Eats, Iron Chef, Naked Chef etc.) and I would just cook what I saw for my friends. They were all “wow ChickenLady you’re such an amazing chef” for a few years until they started watching that shit themselves. Then they were all “you should have used white balsamic vinegar and black garlic in that”.
Butter is missing from this
Maybe in America, not in Spain
How does butter smell good?
If you don’t know about brown butter, I am sad for you.
Missing salt, rookie mistake.
Salt doesn’t change the smell, or at least not that I have ever noticed.
Makes alluims smell better faster?
the picture correctly includes double dose of garlic, but i’m missing the paprika and lard/bacon. source: i’m originally from hungary.
Wow, I hate to bring up Spanish smoked paprika then.
I love me some smoked paprika!
Smoked anything, as well. My guilty vegan addition to too many meals is Liquid Smoke it smoked paprika. Makes nothing ingredients like bland beans and tofu actually taste like something.
The jury is out as to whether these delicious ingredients will cause cancer. Probably not any more than me overcooking everything to get a delicious char, this setting off the smoke alarm whenever I’m allowed near a burner.
Lately I feel like I should just make a Mexican spice mix and put it in everything. Less cumin, more types of chili powder, a couple small vidalia onions, a few peppers and I really couldn’t care what you put in it and I’ll be happy. Chicken, pork, beef, goat, I’m sure tofu would by fine by me. In rice, a burrito, taco, enchiladas, anywhere really, fuck out it on a pizza or in a calzone, or a puff pastry, it’ll work out.
I feel like one of the garlics could be replaced with a shallot.
But then there would be less garlic :(
Should be clarified butter or a a more neutral oil.
Using olive oil for sauteeing isnt the worst but it’s kind of mid. Heat will bring out bitterness and the smoke point is low. Save your olive oil for finishing dishes or using in cool/cooled preparations, where its aroma and fruitiness can actually shine instead of getting dulled by heat.
You can also drizzle olive oil and za’attar on top of anything and basic bitches like me will think it’s fancy.
Go to an international grocery store and buy a jar of anything you have trouble pronouncing.
Like surströmming
Put black garlic in everything.
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4 garlic bulbs, 3 onions and 2 bottles of olive oil, that will entice your neighbor 2 blocks down
My wife was making dinner the other night. As she was getting ready to chop an onion, the 6 year old wandered into the kitchen and commented “That’s big garlic!”
She refused to believe it was an onion. Then she skipped right back out of the kitchen. We just laughed.
Image is missing cooking cream and basil.
Since I’m lactose intolerant and so is most of my family, cream usually isn’t used so I wouldn’t be aware if it sends a particularly pleasant smell.
And when you can’t cook at all just throw in some butter and/or bacon at the end and BOOM!..tasty and delicious!
