gluten-free eats

my least favourite is caraway seed. it's relatively common in the nordic countries as a spice added to cheese and to baked goods (breads and rolls). I have never had it in cheese as I avoid cheese with it in, but in breads and rolls I hate the weird aftertaste it leaves in my mouth of something stale or attic-like. the actual flavour of it is kind of avoidable while eating, it's after you've finished that it hits you (imo). there's a brand of gluten free (frozen) bread I now can't remember the name of that's available in Denmark (it may be a Swedish brand?) they do an oat loaf (best) and two or three other varieties, and one of those is a seeded loaf that has caraway seeds in it. I absolutely HATE it and to my pain it was the ONLY variety of that gf bread available where my mum lived so that was always the only gf bread she had on hand (in the freezer) for me and I just had to suffer through it, lol.

anyway!! my favourite spice! I don't know!!! there are so many Good Spices!!! what I always make sure to keep on hand in my cupboard is ground coriander, ground cumin, paprika (regular), ground chili, and ground ginger. various combinations of these go into most of what I cook, as most of the time when I cook (and don't just make a sandwich or a cheese toast for dinner) it's some kind of asian curry or similar dish.

for sweet baking I suppose my favourite spice is cardamom. it's so difficult to find ground cardamom here in the UK (the spices shelves will usually have cardamom pods, but not ground cardamom) that I wound up having to buy a huge sachet of it off Amazon. ground cardamom goes into cardamom twists (think cinnamon rolls, but without the cinnamon), sweet rolls crusted with sugar, pie crusts (to be filled with a kvarg mixture and berries), and so on. again commonly used in the nordic countries this way...