Comment on YSK tricks for one of the cheapest meals: beans and rice

• Soup@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I can’t imagine spices were exactly cheap. When you’re at the point of making water pie I’m gunna guess that spices are an easy enough thing to let go of.

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  • Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    I’m not talking spices from around the globe or some shit. I’m talking jalapenos, serranos, chipotles…

    Ya know, cheap staple crops from my region of the world that grow like weeds and add flavor for cheap.

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    • Soup@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Ok, with as little intended rudeness as possible: Spicing is a weird word, and usualy for clarity anything to do with heat would be “spicing” or “making spicy”.

      And yea those are definitely not too expensive at all. I really enjoy using spiciness as a way to add a a lot of depth basically for free. Everything is better with some red pepper flakes.

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      • Ohmmy@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Frankly I disagree, chili powder and paprika are spices commonly sold as spices and are just dried then crushed chilies. It’s just a preservation method and in Asia chilies are preserved in chili oils so not technically a spice but is used for flavor like a spice.

        Really the only problem here is that the language we are using is so fucking bad at describing flavor and cooking.

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