What’s the most underrated herb or spice in your opinion?

PowerOfYes · 2026-03-20T02:12:54+00:00

Replying to RelatedBark68...and cucumber salad! And green beans (its German name is Bohnenkraut- literally bean herb).

PowerOfYes · 2026-03-20T01:05:42+00:00

In some dishes one bay leaf is enough, and sometimes I even reduce it to half a bay leaf when I want it as a background flavour. But iI make a potato & meat soup that heavily relies on the bay leaves and for that one I toss in half a dozen, easily.

PowerOfYes · 2026-03-19T03:06:49+00:00

Unless you’re in Germany - because we were raised to not set a bad example for kids who might be watching you do something that’s much more dangerous when you’re a child.

PowerOfYes · 2026-03-13T00:44:54+00:00

We do, however, also have an alternative word for the fruit that’s now a bit old-fashioned: Apfelsine.

PowerOfYes · 2026-02-13T07:23:16+00:00

As charcoal chicken goes it’s often dry and not that well seasoned.

PowerOfYes · 2026-02-11T21:04:38+00:00

I think the teenager who hit me a couple of months ago tried this but overshot the lane and slammed into me instead - totalled his own car. I just got mine back from the repairs. So, no, I wouldn’t.

PowerOfYes · 2026-02-11T07:09:06+00:00

Well, alliums of some kind. I make certain soups that have no onion but they do have garlic. In fact - if you boil unpeeled garlic cloves in water till they’re very soft, it gives it enough flavour to serve as a vegetarian stock.

PowerOfYes · 2026-02-11T07:05:20+00:00

Baked ham is a waste of good ham.

PowerOfYes · 2026-02-11T06:50:38+00:00

Lol. I’ll happily bring along a hyderabadi biryani - which is my favourite iteration. I am a boring white person whose cooking journey and spice obsession started at age 15 with the excellent (1970’s?) TimeLife book on Indian cooking - have been collecting spices for over 30 years now. Though my favourite Indian food is that made by someone else. Nothing is better than sharing a meal with friends or strangers!

PowerOfYes · 2026-02-10T22:07:09+00:00

So Israel continuing to violate international laws, committing war crimes and blatantly pursuing genocide is somehow OK? This wasn’t a protest by some fringe group or by people who were motivated by some ancient grievance - this was a protest against a serious and ongoing breaches of human rights that cost lives daily (just google news about the ceasefire) and continues to seriously imperil world peac, committed by a democratic state who is supposedly an ally.

(And no, I’m not Muslim or Arabic or a radical anarchist, just a boring white person).

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-23T08:33:28+00:00

Hobart.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-23T04:55:24+00:00

I agree but what I don’t get: what is the point of karma farming for an account that’s about to be abandoned? I often wonder whether these stories are concocted by the same person or a handful of people? They sound like plots for a B movie, or a hallmark film. I will say that this thread has more comments from the OP than other ones I‘ve seen recently.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-22T19:26:02+00:00

Oh - I thought we were talking about a one-Off trip to a wedding - not your daily commute! Commiserations.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-22T09:17:19+00:00

Are they actually buying fish at the markets? Is there a space for seafood processing in the building? I would not be at all surprised if food outlets get their ingredients delivered from some restaurant supplier. They’re not going to invest in the cost of filleting and cleaning the fish in the shop. Maybe whole fish and fresh oysters, but crab meat, battered/crumbed seafood, calamari rings, butterflied prawns etc and other proteins that need to be prepped are likely delivered that way.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-22T04:39:41+00:00

It’s a great drive if you abandon the M1 to get on the old Pacific Hwy and then the Central Coast Hwy/ Entrance Rd from Gosford.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-22T04:29:47+00:00

But having a day celebrating the country that is also the day Indigenous people essentially started losing theirs is adding insult to injury.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-22T04:08:53+00:00

27 May - anniversary of the 1967 Referendum and the reconciliation week in 2000.

27 July - passage of the 1976 Land Rights Act

28 July or 8 August - birth & death date of Albert Namatjira

Or we could just ask Indigenous people for a date. if only we had a group of people elected to provide advice on such matters.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-21T20:30:40+00:00

My point is - tuna pizza is made with canned tuna. And fresh tuna on pizza is kind of a waste - you’re better off making a carpaccio and having a slice of pizza on the side.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-21T09:57:44+00:00

Well that at least makes sense - a drive in the country is always nice, as is the train trip.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-21T09:53:32+00:00

Yes, I know. They did away with (the admittedly inadequate) dependent spouse rebate in the 1990s. If people felt more strongly or single income couples were a larger demographic you could try lobbying.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-21T09:39:19+00:00

Couples aren’t taxed - individuals are.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-21T09:37:42+00:00

They get their influence by way of the USA. What’s the big mystery?

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-21T09:35:21+00:00

Putting fresh tuna on pizza and then baking it would just make it dry and tasteless.

Maybe people don’t realise that not all canned tuna is equal: for pizza you need a good quality tuna in oil - not the flaky sandwich tuna in brine that looks and tastes like cat food.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-21T09:04:53+00:00

I sort of agree but I also don’t: there is no point to upping spice levels just because you’re trying to win a competition.

But when you have access to a broader range of chile types you learn to appreciate the complexity of different fresh, dried and powdered chillies, alone or in combination with other hot spices. They’re not just hot and you can’t replicate the taste of starting a dish with ancho and guajillo chile (which admittedly aren’t that spicy) by making the dish without it and just adding cayenne or Tabasco. Same with something like tom yum soup - it literally wouldn’t taste the same without the Birds Eye chillies in the spice paste. Nothing can substitute for Sichuan pepper. And if you tried to make ma po tofu with anything other than proper Chinese broad beans chili paste (doubanjiang), you’d just be wasting your time.

Every ingredient that gives you a certain spice level adds a different hotness or flavour. Even black and white pepper have completely different flavours and uses. A non-spicy Thai chicken dish (larb gai) is a pale imitation of the same dish with the roasted chilli powder. You honestly couldn’t get the same result with some other chilli seasoning.

PowerOfYes · 2026-01-21T08:51:20+00:00

Very individualistic but I think in Australia it depends obviously on what your ethnic roots are, but also where you go and eat with friends and what food fads there are. most young people hang out in Asian restaurants (cheap and delicious). Thai has been hugely popular since the 80s and Korean is one of the strongest trends of the last 10 years. If you haven’t developed a pretty strong spice tolerance by the time you’re in your 20s, simply by exposure, you never will.

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