It's getting very quiet and dull on here so let's spice things up a bit.
What's your favorite spice?



Mine are chillie flakes.

OK, not really a spice but they come in a spice jar and I keep them in my spice cupboard. I put them on my pizzas and with crab and spagetti and various other meals where I can.
( girlinthehole, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:16, 17 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

green cardamom, for making lovely rice.
favourite herb be coriander. no such thing as too much coriander.
( blaireau69 , the Cumbrian Travis Bickle., Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:20, Reply)

I've got so many spices and condiments.
I tend to buy them and hardly use them, and then forget I have them so I buy them again.

ONLY ONE MORE SLEEP 'TILL TESCO !
( G/PP 💩💩💩💩💩&#128, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:21, Reply)

Star Anise and also Cloves.
Smell fantastic and add so much flavour to food.
(Poppet some assembly required., Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:23, Reply)

Mine would have to be
Cinnamon, there is so much you can do with it.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:24, Reply)

I love cinnamon on rice pudding.
I'm getting hungry now.
( girlinthehole, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:29, Reply)

I like it on
Doughnuts, in coffee, and on rice pudding.

Now I wish I had some to eat as well.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:31, Reply)

Chilli
I'm addicted to chillis. They're the best thing I've ever put in my mouth.

I've got a soft spot for cardamom, cinnamon, paprika, cayenne, mace, nutmeg, tumeric... Anything pungent and interesting.

Failing that, freshly ground black pepper on everything. Especially cheese on toast.

And I've recently become the proud owner of an 8" bay tree, whose leaves I use in many, many dishes.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:36, Reply)

Chilis!
Have a couple plants in the greenhouse for taking to uni, one of them is especially great since instead of going from green to red it goes from black to red, so makes the food look awesome.
Also paprika, turmeric
( Tedium Alduce me to interlow myself., Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:38, Reply)

I also have chili flakes in my cupboard
And add them to most things, but I'm a huge garlic fiend. Everything is better with extra garlic.
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:43, Reply)

Garlic is a bulb, dear.

( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:45, Reply)

Chiles are a fruit (but they are both spices)
I love chiles. I used to live in New Mexico and every fall there would be farm trucks parked in the shopping center parking lots with long strings of dried red chiles. There would also be people roasting chiles on the street and the smell was incredible.

I probably have 15 different types of dried chiles, chile sauces, chile paste, hot sauces, etc at home.

I also love garlic and garlic mixed with chiles makes a great sauce.
(MichaelS wasn't picked again, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 12:22, Reply)

I know.
I was just being a bitch.
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 12:32, Reply)

Garlic, Chilli, Black Pepper
Can't go wrong at all.

In fact I love freshly ground black pepper (and salt of course) on my chips.
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:47, Reply)

Probably
Emma Bunton.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:51, Reply)

Wrong
Try again!
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 12:25, Reply)

Well it's not that Sporty one
She's ugly as an ugly thing that's fallen out of the ugly tree and hit every branch on the way down.
( K2k6 has a proper job these days, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 12:32, Reply)

And she's
Been beaten with the ugly stick as she lay at the bottom of the ugly tree.
(Herr Doktor Lemminge Is bored, so cheer me up!, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 13:11, Reply)