Spice it up challenge
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Melodieccurn
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Nix the salt this week . Try a new spice. My new favorite spice is smoked paprika. Gives food a slightly smoky flavor. I use on beef and chicken and I also use it on home made sweet potato fries with cinnamon and chili powder and curry.
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I love smoked paprika and cayenne pepper on homemade baked sweet potato fries. No salt required (and very little oil).
Chicken I will usually season with a little chilli and some lime, though it depends what kind of theme I'm going for.
I'll pick up a new spice this week and try something a little different.0 -
I think I'm going for turmeric this week.0
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There aren't too many spices that I haven't tried. I have 3 jars of unopened spices at home, and I decided to use this as the push to open one of them. I will be making chicken curry later on this week. I opted for that since I already have most of the ingredients at home, just need to grab a couple of things to complete it.0
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I'm with @mswanger09 we eat a lot of spices in my house. I love paprika, but we usually go for the Hot Hungarian kind. Mmmmm chicken paprikash. To try something new, I found a few spice concoctions for marinades, so I think I'll be trying to make herbs de province. It has 11 different spices, including things I haven't had a lot of like tarragon, fennel, marjoram and lavender! We have a bulk spice place I've never been to so I'm going to go there and see what I can find. I'll post back later when I've made something!
(Oh I also found a recipe for Chicken Manicotti Alfredo that uses marjoram, but it's also like 800 calories per serving so I think I'll skip that for now.)0 -
I used curry tonight in my dinner. I rarely use salt anyway. I made a pork and veggie stir fry with many different seasoning but mostly consisted of curry and cumin and it was delicious0
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Made a chicken and rice dish that used curry, ginger, and cinnamon. I can't remember the last time I used the curry and I usually think of cinnamon for baking! I use a lot of cumin, chili powder, and cilantro.0
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I rarely add salt to my food or when cooking. Regardless, tonight I made an egg white omelet and added some thyme and basil - pretty good.0
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I'm a pretty bland type of gal, not very spicy at all. It is probably because my husband (who is the real cook in the house) loves so much garlic, salt, curry, cumin and cayenne that the food gets so stinky and spicy, most of the time I can't stand it! Sooo, this week for the challenge, I will try paprika, probably on my eggs and veggies. Paprika is considered an anti-oxidant & anti-inflammatory, loaded w/ B6 for energy, an aide in digestion, and helps promote sleep.
I'll also throw some cinnamon in my homemade spinach and blueberry smoothies. Cinnamon can help anything taste sweeter and has been shown to help relieve indigestion too!
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Today I had ground grains of paradise on my tomato slices instead of salt. It had a mellow, peppery flavor with a little citrus note. I missed the salt, but it was an interesting change.0
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Aside from the sodium in all the processed foods I eat, I do not add salt on anything anymore. I didn't really know what to do for this piece of this week's challenge and didn't know what I would be cooking later on this week. So there I stood, in the spice aisle at the grocery store last night trying to figure something out. I found a little thing for Rosemary with two suggestions on how to use rosemary "to trim the fat", one of which was to sprinkle on green beans. I don't like green beans a whole bunch so I thought I would use this opportunity to see if that would help. I tried it at lunch today and I could eat it, but it really didn't do a whole lot for me. The feel/texture of it was a little strange. It's already on the rest of the green beans, so I will be trying it again for the next day or two, so I'll see if my mind changes.0
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Posting for @tmn2016 (no access to thread this week): She has found an organic allspice which is a combination of paprika, mustard seed, peppercorns, coriander, onions, garlic, and cayenne pepper. The combo is really good and she added it into her veggies, which totally eliminated the need for salt!0
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I don't use very much oil or salt when cooking. I like to pre marinate my chicken for extra flavor and because I eat almost the same thing everyday I mix up spices to change the flavor. My favorite spices are lemon pepper, smoked paprika, all spice which is a combination of everything and garlic. A lot of fresh garlic.0
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I don't even have salt in my house. Never add it to food or when cooking. I have oodles and oodles of spices and herbs in my house too, even fresh ones growing in my window sills. My favourites are garlic, basil, thyme and cayenne.0
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Tried a new recipe from Pinterest for baked garlic Parmesan chicken, which called for lemon pepper as the spice. Turned out pretty good 0
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PENSY'S that's a spice company. Look them up. They have many salt free blends. Everyone thinks I'm an awesome cook and it's because I use their spices. They are sooooooo good.
I have started this thing that my family is obsessed with. Sliced cucumber with lime juice and this new pepper blend that has red and black pepper. So good! You can adjust the seasoning depending on what type of meal you're eating.0 -
I got hooked back on to tuna fish pitas again after the fish challenge last week. I had forgotten how much I enjoyed tuna. Still had some left this week so I tried adding a bit of curry to my tuna mixture and it was quite nice. Made me think I was eating something a little exotic! Lol0
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I have a lot of spices in my house, so I wasn't going to buy a new one. I also have left over red lentils from the Egyptian red lentil soup that I made a couple weeks back! So I found a recipe in my low-fat cookbook (I know, old school) for an Indian inspired red lentil and rice dish with coriander, cumin, turmeric and curry. It also calls for salt and pepper; I left the salt out. The turmeric is a stronger flavour to me; don't love it. Just as an aside, years ago there was a restaurant in town that put curry on their home fried potatoes....very good!0
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Expensive but very flavorful and different Garam Masala. I use it in stir fries. Also baked winter squash.0
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I made my Chicken Curry tonight for the first time, it was soooo yummy! Thank you for this challenge to get me to finally make it myself!0
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This past Christmas I had to buy some Herbes de Provence for a Christmas gift, I'd never heard of it but it is amazing! My jar is a blend of oregano, marjoram, rosemary, thyme, anise and lavender.
We had it this week on pork chops with some ground mustard mixed in, delicious! I also rub it on chicken for roasting or mixed with roast vegetables.0
