Cooking & Baking

flotsam

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13. Here's the thing

Sat Jan 4, 2020, 04:11 PM

Jan 2020

My bet is your mother owned 6 spices or less-and one of my them was "seasoned salt". Exotic family recipes might require soy sauce or hot sauce even though most required "Veg-All"...The Fancy shit with colorful fruit and aspic is bullshit=nobodies Momma made that. My family recipe book included hamburger and Veg All in one case being "Japanese" when " a teaspoon of soy sauce was added while the same recipe with "one teaspoon" of "hot sauce" was "Mexican". We are ACTUALLY now blessed with a large spice cabinet and that is a good thing. You should try sazon as a meat rub.

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