My favorite ingredient
The other day I was completing my profile on foodbuzz.com – it is a community for food bloggers. Perhaps the question I found most intriguing was when they ask you to list your favorite ingredient. For practicality purposes, I listed butter, but I could have easily put cheese. The problem is that my favorite ingredient is one that will never come up in an ingredient search on any recipe site. Foodbuzz.com, food.com, foodnetwork.com, and any other recipe sites you can think of do not list my favorite ingredient as an ingredient. Yet this one single ingredient can totally transform a dish for me. The interesting thing about this ingredient is that it is not something you can teach any culinary student to use. There is not a store in the world where you can buy this ingredient.
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Comment by Inspiritual on September 30, 2011 at 11:23am -
Aberdeen -- I know exactly what you mean. Sometimes when I go out to eat, I want to ask what kind of mood the chefs are in that day. There is one restaurant near my house that I go to for soup, but I always call ahead to see who made the soup. If this one chef made it I will go, if another of the chefs made it I will stay home. It is the same soup, the same recipe, but one always tastes as if it is missing something and when my fav chef makes it you feel like the scene from when sally met harry -- it is that good :)
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Comment by Inspiritual on September 30, 2011 at 11:20am
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Michelle -- thanks for sharing this story -- My son tells me the same thing all the time -- nobody can make a grilled cheese sandwich like you and trust me he has eaten his share -- he lives in a group home in Georgia and i remember taking him out to eat one day and he ordered a grilled cheese sandwich -- it came, he took one bite and looked at me and said, "mom, you need to teach them how to make these, something is missing. they need your recipe." lol
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Comment by Aberdeen Hatch on September 30, 2011 at 10:38am -
What an interesting story! I am not a cook and definitely do not pretend to be, but I try very hard and definitely put in all my effort when I make an attempt. I will surely think of this article during my next cooking adventure. I agree though - food does taste better when love or thought is put into it. I don't know how many times I've eaten a sandwich and I could just feel the preparer's anger and disgust - it will be falling apart and so messy - no care or love involved at all! It makes a difference when you're enjoying it.
Michelle - that is such a sweet story with your son! He must have good tastebuds to recognize all the love you included!
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