My favorite seasoning (at least for now)
It makes veggies YUMMY!
edit: I was trying to find the thread for recommending products, but Im a horrible thread searcher.
Makes a great shish-kabob too. Let me know if you want the full recipe.
Ive never done shish-kabobs, but I'm willing to try them out. Do I need to go out and buy the kaboby things or is there something else I could use instead?
Bamboo skewers, they cost a couple bucks for a hundred in the grocery store. Be sure to SOAK them in water before you use them. This is especially important when grilling.
hmm.
Salt, Black Pepper, Corn Starch, Garlic, Monosodium Glutamate, Oregano, Flavor Base Seasoning (Hydrolyzed Corn Soy Protein, Sugar, Onion Powder, Spice Extracts), Parsley And Five Other Spices.
I'm guessing it's the S in msg.
Dangit. I can't remember the name now, but Dad used to have a container of "spice" that was *just* msg. If I remember correctly, it was a red cylinder with white lettering.... catchy title .. that I can't recall... grrrr....
The stuff tasted like salt, but much ... wetter... it just melted in your mouth, and not as salty as salt.
my MIL gave us a big bag of msg for christmas one time (along with a whole pile of other weird stuff).
It makes veggies YUMMY!
edit: I was trying to find the thread for recommending products, but Im a horrible thread searcher.
My semi-dyslexic nature thought that read "Cadaver's" at first.
my MIL gave us a big bag of msg for Christmas one time (along with a whole pile of other weird stuff).
lol
My MIL likes to shop rummage sales for birthday and Christmas gifts. I dont care but it hasn't endeared her to the boys.
My late great Aunt Alice used to buy knock-off stuff for us at the local street market. One year I got an annual (a book, in case you don't have them over there) which was a year out of date. In later years we'd often get a pair of tights (pantyhose) and a packet of handkerchiefs - the tights were always bright 80s colours like cerise and electric blue... in 1998.
I have to say her presents to us were treated as family jokes, but we didn't love her any the less. In fact the fact she remembered we liked brightly coloured tights was really sweet. And our presents to her were just as useless - Mum found a stack of gifts when she helped to clear out the house!
She never gave us MSG though. Now that is a weird gift Top Trump.
Yes very weird. I did try to tell you all. lol
yeah, but you said she was weird 'cause she gave you meat. I've been known to give my kids meat for Christmas, so . . .
I did mention a couple of other things. lol But at the time I didn't think of the msg thing. It was so long ago and there have been so many other weird gifts and occurances in between. ;)
Cavender? What part of Greece is he from? The Outer Hebribes?
I think that's Cavendish, but hey, islands.
We just picked up 2 jars of
Five Spice. I'm still trying to figure out what to do with it. Tonight I'm poaching salmon on the grill. I would normally use lemon pepper but I might decide to experiment.
Five Spice goes well with the whole set of Chinese flavors. We usually use it in various beef or chicken stir frys.
I like 5 spice on seared tuna.
My semi-dyslexic nature thought that read "Cadaver's" at first.
X_x same here
Welcome to the Cellar, Loukianos!
thyme
sage
rosemary
paprika
cumin - (esp. on creme of tomato soup -yum)
cerole mix or chili poweder
Hot sauce ( not Tabasco yuk)
I always know if they use msg in Chinese food. It will give me a headache and make me thirsty.
I like coarse ground pepper on most stuff.
And the Kroger Brand of lime-pepper-salt in the grinder. Totally awesome for most stuff if you love salt like me.
Black pepper, absolutely coating the bitemark in a hamburger. Perhaps a sprinkle of salt also, but I've developed a real taste for heavily peppered hamburgers. I do the same with French dips. (Warm shaved-beef long sandwiches served au jus, if the name differs outside the US.)
(Warm shaved-beef long sandwiches served au jus, if the name differs outside the US.)
...and now you need to translate au jus.....
but nice try :lol:
:eek: Monster, WTF? Are you indeed, truly that innocent of French?
Well... it can happen. I ain't got that much German...
[puts on lecturer jacket w/suède elbow patches, fiddles w/official Flaming Carrot bubble pipe]
French has this sort of all-purpose article, "à" which can mean anything from "to, at, with, for" or "in the style of." Damn useful when you can't think what to say next, but are sure it might be one of those. Like Spanish's del, "au" is a combo of the article and "the." It substitutes for à+le for French masculine nouns, so we get to "au jus" meaning "with juice."
"Au jus" is not a fucking noun! Do not use "with!" Served au jus is the proper terminology, menu writers.
And à la means "in the style or manner of." À la mode just means it's in style; it doesn't actually mention ice cream on your pie. I'd like to find out how the phrase came about sometime.
No, dear, I speak French. You are a bit of an areshole, you know. It's the "serving something au jus" that doesn't travel so well. But you're too wrapped up in how awesome you are to realize that. And that I was half-teasing. Go boil your backside.
How awesome I am? Look at my opposition and competition here present. The people who tell me I'm an arsehole run to some problems of their own, Monst. Right now, Radar is chief farter. He's got buyer's remorse about Obama bigtime, and can't man up enough to admit it when I called his emotionally immature ass on it -- he's been melting down in post after post over in Politics, ranting and raving and ranting again, hurling the wildest abuse. Spectacular. And next to that narcissist, I look about as self-absorbed as Mother Teresa or Buddha, no?
A wise Providence did arrange for smilies -- and even these may be less than effectually used. Chalk it up to an unfortunate chance, I guess.
As for "served au jus" as some rather better menu copy has it, I see your point. Au jus would suffice anywhere there is a lot of French speech. Still, there are those in the Stable Interior Craton without it, who would need the additional clue -- served to them. I don't think it's wrong to provide that help.