Winters_Lackey wrote:
>Brooklyn1 wrote:
>>Julie Bove wrote:
>>>
>>>Do you make your own chili powder or buy it? What does it have in it?
>>
>> Penzeys rules.
>>
>I agree. I buy their powdered ancho and cumin. I avoid powdered garlic
>and onion, as they deteriorate quickly, but if one is going to use them,
>better to buy garlic salt and onion salt, as the salt preserves them
>longer.

I avoid spices that contain salt, the salt limits how much you can use
before the dish becomes too salty... I never use onion salt or garlic
salt. The salt doesn't preserve the garlic/onion flavor anyway, salt
only keeps it from molding. Instead I use granulated garlic, it has a
very long shelf life and even longer when kept frozen. For dehy onion
I buy minced, I also buy Penzeys dehy toasted minced onion, much
better than using those salt laden soup packets. I see no point in
making up my own chili powder when Penzeys has so many to choose from
and none contain salt. If I want more ancho I use the whole dried
peppers, they're easy to destem, deseed, and mince, then in long
cooking dishes like chili they slowly melt in flavoring the dish over
time rather than use powdered that shoots its entire flavor load all
at once so that before the dish is cooked the flavor has disapated.
And even though chili powder contains garlic I still use fresh and add
it throughout the cooking process and even drop in some whole cloves
so they flavor like time release capsuls. I like to tend to my pots
constantly while cooking, that's why pressure proccesors suck, they
cook too hot too fast, and don't allow for adjusting... all they do is
ruin ingredients... of course they're fine for the TIADers. And slow
cookers aren't better. Pressure processors and crock pots are to
cooking like paint by numbers is to art. If I was interested in
*fast* rather than use a pressure processor or crock pot for chili I'd
buy canned, can easily be doctored... canned is superior to any coming
from a pressure processor or crock pot anyway... WTF do you think the
finest restos serve, canned and doctored soups/stews... who do yoose
think buys all those #10 cans by the case(s). Today all sorts of
soups and stews are available freeze dried in #10 cans, even freeze
dried precooked ground beef:
http://www.thereadystore.com/mountai...nd-beef-10-can
Can't be worse than the preground mystery meat yoose TIADers buy.