Re: I'm really starting to like this stuff

Ed P wrote:

On 4/18/2025 9:04 PM, Dave Smith wrote:

On 2025-04-18 7:47 p.m., Carol wrote:

ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:
 

 

 

There's several ingredients involved when you make ranch
dressing from scratch if you don't have the packets.

 
It's often a matter of not wanting to have an extensive spice
stock, so sometimes it makes sense to get a blend.

 
I am not sure I follow that. A spice blend is, by definition, a
mixture  of certain spices. Each of the  components is usually
something a decent  cook would have on hand anyway, so it makes
good sense to me to have the  component herbs and spices and to
simply add those rather than to have  to go out and buy an much
more expensive mixture.
 
 
I can't help but to think of seeing cinnamon sugar in the spice
shelf at  a local grocery store and the per unit cost of the stuff
was more than  per unit cost of cinnamon, and the mixture was only
one part cinnamon to  3-4 parts sugar. Rip Off.
 

 
Depends.  Cinnamon sugar is rather simple. There are some blends that
have quite a few spices/herbs and some you may not have on hand.  Do
you have dried red bell pepper?  How much lemon zest do you put in
your steak blend with hickory smoke?
 
McCormick Grill Mates Brown Sugar Bourbon Marinade is a distinctive
blend of sweet brown sugar, savory spices bourbon, and red bell
pepper.
 
Chicago Steak Seasoning  salt, Tellicherry black pepper, sugar,
garlic, onion, lemon zest, citric acid and natural hickory smoke
flavor

Yes.  The more exotic, the fewer of us might be able to swing it.  In
my case, I don't have Peruvian chiles. I have powdered Calamansi which
is close to lime and *might* work.  Plenty of the rest except I'd drop
the cilantro which is so lightly there, you can't taste the soap (grin).