Learning How to Spice Simple Foods Up

[Joseph Maynor]

I’m gonna show you how to make a simple, healthy chili that will dazzle all your tastebud zones.  You gotta learn something about jazzing simple foods up if you wanna increase healthy eating in your life.  Start to build a little collection on vinegars, oils, and spices.  Don’t go overboard though and buy too many spices at once because they do go bad and you want your spices to be as fresh as possible.  But these are like your painters’ palate that you can use to jazz up or enhance any food you have Mind to experiment with.  Get a good olive oil to have on hand. 

A couple of years ago I really got into cooking and I learned a lot about how to add the right dimensions of flavor to foods to really make the tastebuds sing.  The reason why the bad foods are bad is because they taste good haha.  Not so fast though — if you know how to use herbs, spices, vinegars, and oils — you can make almost any ingredient be the star-of-the-show in a dish.  So, let me show you how to do-up black beans, which are a superfood.

I make my black beans in a pressure-cooker — which is how I recommend you do it.  The beans have a kind of gravy to them this way.  It takes me about 1 hour to cook a whole pot of black beans in the pressure-cooker, and I don't have to do any soaking beforehand.  

Ok, so start with a full plate of black beans.  Beans should be hot, so microwave beforehand if you need to.

Here’s what you do to the pile of beans on the plate:

Apple cider vinegar — hit it with a few splashes of vinegar for some acidity.

Low sodium soy sauce  — circle the circumference of the pile of beans with soy sauce.  Don’t put too much, but not too little either.  This adds salt and umami.

Pink Himalayan Sea Salt — add pinch of salt for taste.

Onion powder — give a nice dusting with onion powder for depth of flavor.

Garlic powder — give a nice dusting with garlic powder for depth of flavor. 

Dried marjoram leaves — give a nice dusting with marjoram for herbaceousness.  (Substitute with oregano if you must.)

Smoked hot paprika — give a nice dusting with smoked hot paprika for heat and depth of flavor.

Ground coriander seed — give a nice dusting with coriander seed to give herbaceousness and depth of flavor.

Ground white pepper — give a light dusting with white pepper to add heat and herbaceousness.

Dried rubbed sage — sprinkle some sage around for added herbaceousness.

Ground turmeric — give a nice dusting with turmeric for depth of flavor.

Dried amchur powder — sprinkle in some amchur powder for a nice tangy, sour note and for depth of flavor.

Ketchup — give a couple shots of ketchup on top for sweetness.

Now, stir everything loosely together a few times and eat!

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BOOKS THAT WILL TEACH YOU THE PRINCIPLES OF COOKING SO YOU CAN DO WITHOUT USING RECIPES

This means you can learn to make anything taste good, which is why you eat all the bad food — because it tastes good.  I recommend these two books if you wanna take charge of your diet, nutrition, and heath.  They teach you the principles of cooking and flavors so you can cook much more intuitively.

(1) ‘Culinary Artistry’ by Dornenburg and Page

https://www.amazon.com/Culinary-Artistry-Andrew-Dornenburg/dp/0471287857

(2) ‘The Flavor Bible’ by Page and Dornenburg

https://www.amazon.com/Flavor-Bible-Essential-Creativity-Imaginative/dp/0316118400/ref=pd_lpo_sbs_14_t_0?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1&refRID=433D8P40S9T8AGCFCM3S

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ONE OF MANY LISTS OF SUPERFOODS

https://greatist.com/health/25-greatist-superfoods-and-why-theyre-super

Edited December 20, 2017 by Joseph Maynor

[supremeyingyang]

On 12/20/2017 at 9:24 AM, Joseph Maynor said:

BOOKS THAT WILL TEACH YOU THE PRINCIPLES OF COOKING SO YOU CAN DO WITHOUT USING RECIPES

I thought that cook without a recipe isn't taught by anyone! I like that!

I really like your idea of teaching the theoretical use of spices and want to add some spices to the list:

- Honey
- Ginger
- Mustard
- Curcuma
- Butter

But also I really like a little recipe like that:

3 Eggs, a little onion, a little tomato, 4 mushrooms

1. Chop it, 2. Take a pan and warm it. 3. give some Butter 4. give onions in 5. after 1 minute the Rest; then stir it until its dry 6. Add salt, Pepper, Herbs, Chilli and some Kurkuma.

It provides:
- Enough Vitamin B12 and Vitamin D for a grown man
- 20 grams of protein
- nice vegetable
- good fat

If you add some raw carots and nuts you're really good!

Edited December 21, 2017 by supremeyingyang