Simple question: what are your most favorite ingredients to add to a dish and what are your least favorite?
By ingredient I mean anything from garlic, black pepper, mustard seeds, to things like whole sliced tomatoes, mushrooms, butter etc. Note that this is NOT a favorite/least favorite foods topic. Beef Wellington for example would not apply here. That's a complete dish.
In the past, I was averse to tomatoes. I choked on one when I was a kid, and for the longest time I would remove sliced tomatoes from my burgers and pizzas. This is not the case these days. I absolutely love them.
My most favorite ingredients of all time to add to a dish are sauteed onions and either fresh or roasted garlic. I love to even just hear the sound of onions sauteeing in a pan with a little bit of oil, and the smell of garlic.
I'm not sure about my least favorite ingredient(s). Certainly I don't like mushrooms on pizzas, but we don't cook with shrooms at all in South Indian cooking. I'll have to come back to that one.
So what are yours?
By ingredient I mean anything from garlic, black pepper, mustard seeds, to things like whole sliced tomatoes, mushrooms, butter etc. Note that this is NOT a favorite/least favorite foods topic. Beef Wellington for example would not apply here. That's a complete dish.
In the past, I was averse to tomatoes. I choked on one when I was a kid, and for the longest time I would remove sliced tomatoes from my burgers and pizzas. This is not the case these days. I absolutely love them.
My most favorite ingredients of all time to add to a dish are sauteed onions and either fresh or roasted garlic. I love to even just hear the sound of onions sauteeing in a pan with a little bit of oil, and the smell of garlic.
I'm not sure about my least favorite ingredient(s). Certainly I don't like mushrooms on pizzas, but we don't cook with shrooms at all in South Indian cooking. I'll have to come back to that one.
So what are yours?