Related question: do you salt your boiling spaghetti water?




I pepper mine, cause I'm Jean Claude Von GAT Damme!

2the9s said:

olive oil numb nuts

mdiver said:

Never! Just stir it and it won't stick!

You must use some starchy-ass pasta.

2the9s said:

i just stop and think...

what would archie bunker do

2the9s said:

I taste first, then salt it like a motherfucker, whether it needs it or not. Cause that's how I roll.

I taste first, but I don't really like my food too salty

veronikka said:

salt,chile powder and lemon on cucumbers,jicama, oranges,mangos and watermelon.

2the9s said:

yes but other than that, i don't routinely use salt or pepper.

i also don't routinely cook.

ZombieKitten said:

ZombieKitten said:

I'm just trying to picture you doing anything 'like a motherfucker' and it's making me laugh.

Actually, I must admit, I usually add just a little salt and a fair bit of pepper to most things I eat, before tasting. I just know what it'll be like compared to my tastes.

Same goes for fish sauce, lime juice and/or vinegar with chilli in when it comes to Thai food.

JessieJ said:

Oh lawd. Have you had mango dipped in a salt, sugar and chili mix? Sooooo good.

Crap! I hate that I've posted three, now four, times in a row on a 2the9s thread.

i never cook with salt at home

hubby automatically salts most things :

i don't think i've ever salted anything in my entire life. or peppered. i very rarely doctor my food at all, aside from a ketchup/mustard mix for fries/burgers/whatever. i guess i'm very simple that way. i just eat it the way it's served to or prepared for me. (i don't cook. at least not well. and if it's just for me, then i could care less what it actually tastes like.)

shuggie said:

I'm more of a motherfuckee I guess

Tonight I tasted the most incredibly delicious minestrone soup I have ever tried in my life.

the weird thing is,

I MADE IT!



OMG it is SOOOOO good, I bet I will be getting up several times during the night to steal spoonfuls of it.

Shut it.

ZombieKitten said:

Another reason I wished we lived closer... I would love to taste your soup. Minestrone is one of my faves.

(Ok after re-reading that..it sounded kind of kinky..oh well I am leaving it).

Did you use a recipe or just throw stuff in?

shuggie said:

Pepper .. salt is my least fave thing to add to food to make it taste good.
I have extremely low blood pressure and my dr in that states advised me to add salt to my food... I just can't do it.
I would rather add something hot & spicy.

shanti0608 said:

This one was a recipe, I followed it pretty much to the letter apart from the following substitutions.
it had in it:
3 bean mix (supposed to be borlotti beans)
half a zucchini - diced
one carrot - diced
one potato - diced
4 fat free bacon rashers (which was supposed to be pancetta)
one onion
one celery stalk - cut up into small pieces
one leek (I just decided to put that in ) sliced
2 cloves garlic
1 400g tin crushed tomatoes
2 tbs tomato paste
2 litres stock
some green beans
1 cup tiny little pastas
fresh parsley and basil
pepper

you process the onion, bacon, garlic and parsley until its a coarse paste

saute that in some olive oil in a big pot for about 8-10 minutes over lowish heat

throw in the carrots, celery, leek, potato and let that cook about 5 mins

put in the tinned tomato and paste, and stock and torn up basil

simmer 1.5 hours

10 mins from the end throw in pasta, zucchini and green beans

it's ready when the pasta is al dente!

while this is cooking, there is time to bake a loaf of bread!

ZombieKitten said:

Sounds yummie. I will have to make it some time. Thanks for giving me the recipe. I am going to save it right now.

I stopped baking bread because I will just eat the whole thing. I only buy whole wheat or some sort of grainy bread. When he buys a fresh loaf of tiger bread I do my best to resist.

Other wise I could live off of bread and cheese.

I'm still waiting for the results of this survey