Favorite and unfavorite spices

[sonia]

I love the condiments topic and I've been meaning to start this conversation all month. Here it is almost the end of January, so you get two posts at once.

What are your favorite and least favorite spices? Do you know why you dis/like them?

Comments

Yes!

[jesse_the_k]

I avoided cumin for too long because of its stinky preview odor. But when it's cooked in, none of that quality remains.

There's another spice in the South Asian vocabulary with a scary smell before it's cooked: Asafoetida, also known as "hing." I'm not yet confident enough to include it my recipe development.

Re: Yes!

[sonia]

I was using hing regularly for a while, and then got tired of it and haven't used it at all. I suppose I'll go back to it eventually. I sprinkled it in at the beginning of starting to make stirfry to make sure it got thoroughly cooked.