Favorite spice mix?
 

do you guys know of any good spice mixes? You know, like Emeril's essence or Mrs. Dash or something. Trying to cut down on fat and salt.

You'll miss the salt for about 2 weeks after that you should be good to go.
REAL lemon and/or garlic are good to "liven things up" without salt.

My mom stocks some damn Sorta Salt ® but I think you just use more. Also, everyone is big on sea salt.

But, don't forget iodine! You don't want a big old goiter popping up.

Anything by Penzey's. Okay, I'll be more specific:

Sate seasoning
Pizza seasoning
Sunny Spain
Herbes de Provence
Zatar
Northwoods
Fox Point Seasoning
Greek Seasoning
Garam Masala


I also have about 40-50 individual herbs & spices from them, but you did specify blends.

Oh, and the obligatory Old Bay.

Oops -- just read the part about cutting back on salt. Many of my list above have salt; I'm going to leave the list anyways.

Here's the list of Penzey's salt-free offerings.

I've been enjoying Emeril's Asian Essence and Southwest Essence. Makes a great dry rub.

is Penzey's available in markets where you are?

I bought some Emeril "essence" and will try that. I'll look for the other suggestions!

I tried Emeril's Special Sauce once. It was awfully salty. :thepain:

lol

Clone thread / Favorite Spice Girl /

I wasn't kidding about the goiter.

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/goiter/DS00217

Seriously, where are we going to get our iodine as we run screaming from salt?

You don't need much iodine at all. About 120 -150 micrograms a day. You could just talk about iodine for three or four minutes and have all you need for a few weeks.

From where does it come? Do the people in third world countries like Goiteria say "oogla boogla" and they have all the iodine they need for the day?

Not a spice mix, (sorta is, but not really) but any zesty Italian dressing is my favorite marinade for chicken breast about to be grilled.

Iodine is found in seafood and some vegetables (depending on the soil it was grown in.