- Wungus
- Mar 5, 2004
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This is a good question, and I put more thought into it than I'd intended. In rough order of how I'd grab things in putting together my essential list (but not necessarily how much I'd need them):
- Salt (Diamond Crystal, duh)
- Good black peppercorns. Gotta get the good ones
- Aleppo flakes, which are the best kind of pepper flake
- MSG
- Fresh lemons. Too many people just have a squeeze bottle of lemon juice in the fridge, and not only is that so much worse than fresh juice, but it means you can't use the zest either, and I need that zest.
- Thyme, same reason as Dino, it's my go to dried herb.
- Cumin seeds
- Mustard seeds
- Miso paste best paste
- Tajín, which is such a shortcut I almost feel bad for including it, but it's so good as a finisher on so much
I can wing basically anything I regularly cook by throwing all of this in a bundle and taking it wherever I gotta be, or just pulling it out of the cabinet and making poo poo up on the spot. I know I included MSG and miso, but they serve different purposes and I'm nearly always going to want access to some kind of umami boost.
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- Wungus
- Mar 5, 2004
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Diamond Crystal has a lighter texture and is less dense than Morton's, so I can confidently measure things in pinches using it that will be oversalted if I use Morton's. I know by feel how much is the right amount of salt to grab for a pot of beans and what it looks like to sprinkle the amount of Diamond I use on anything, and when I've used Mortons, I routinely oversalt. It's why I gotta grab that brand, and I know I don't always find it in stores
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