| What's your favorite "secret ingredient"?
Posted: 8/20/2008 5:46:36 PM | Do you have a favorite "secret ingredient" that you add to a dish to make it instantly seem like a gourmet meal? For me, it's carmelized onions with garlic slices on most meat dishes (works every time!). I got to thinking about this after I browned polenta slices with onions and garlic for dinner, tossed on bagged spinach to cook just a few minutes before the dish was done.
Another favorite is to put the spice ingredients of a bearnaise sauce directly on a steak before grilling - mustard, onion powder, tarragon chervil - all the taste without all the calories! | |
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| What's your favorite secret ingredient?
Posted: 8/20/2008 6:08:21 PM | It really depends on what I am cooking.
What I am grilling.
What I am BBQing.
What I am baking.
And what ingredients I am using.
Given each food type and method of cooking, the answer is.
YES, I do have secret ingredients I use for those dishes.
But if I told everyone, it wouldn't be a secret anymore now would it...
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| What's your favorite secret ingredient?
Posted: 8/20/2008 7:02:01 PM | Vegetarian Oyster Sauce or fish sauce.. it's all about the umami..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umami
.. little trick with fish sauce.. always throw in a bit of lime juice.. takes the nasty edge of the fish taste. | |
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| What's your favorite secret ingredient?
Posted: 8/20/2008 7:09:15 PM | Chinese five spice and any real good variety of curry.
The five spice goes into my kick azz chicken salad
with out the measurements ....
Hen only-boiled ,cooled,picked off bone use breast only
real mayo
heavy cream
dash of five spice
green grapes
maybe a few walnuts
or almond slices | |
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| What's your favorite secret ingredient?
Posted: 8/20/2008 8:44:38 PM | almond extract in my french toast.
garlic garlic garlic and more garlic in everything else..powder and salt, onion powder/salt too. and jalepeno pepper in everything that needs that extra kick! | |
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| What's your favorite secret ingredient?
Posted: 8/20/2008 10:07:24 PM | I love a dash of cinnamon when I'm browning ground beef, it gives it a little oomph
sprinkling melon , any kind, with a tiny dash of salt (not so secret, everybody knows that one)
fresh ground pepper on strawberries (don't know why, but I love it)
and when I make oatmeal cookies I soak golden raisins in Grand Marnier or Cointrea | |
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| What's your favorite secret ingredient?
Posted: 8/21/2008 4:35:34 AM | I DO have a secret ingredient for brownies - and it doesn't involve any 'black butter' lol
Everyone raves about my brownies but only my daughter knows the secret. Any get-together we have I'm always asked to make brownies.
The secret: Add a heaping tablespoon of corn syrup with your liquids. It makes them extreamly moist and chewy! I use a box mix most of the time, since its so much easier than from scratch and they turn out fantastic. For a small box, use less corn syrup.
Also in order to avoid over mixing to get rid of large clumps in the mix, before I add the liquids I break up the clumps with a whisk.
Actually I had a recipie for 'special brownies' somewhere. An old hippy shared it with me years ago.....wonder where I put it..... | |
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| What's your favorite secret ingredient?
Posted: 8/21/2008 4:56:21 AM | anti-ipenema.. try a splash of balsamic vinegar with the black pepper, on those strawberries.. yummm!! It also makes a pretty salad on your plate.  | |
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| What's your favorite secret ingredient?
Posted: 8/21/2008 11:42:24 AM | | Two actually. One is a Goya product. Its "adobo", and I use it as a dry rub. I try to get away from a wet sauce (like barbeque), every so often. Then second is using tobasco as your cooking medium in a crock pot. It lends a nice, but not to hot, flavor | |
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