spices
Simple condiments
A guide to common and less well known condiments and flavorings used in cooking.
Ginger
Ginger has a strong, piquant and spicy flavor. Used worldwide. Europeans use ginger essentially in sweet dishes. Ginger is added in Indian cuisine to almost every savory dish. Chinese and Japanese cuisines prefer adding it to meat and fish dishes.
Spiced rub for pork
Pork takes all sort of flavors, sweet as apples or spicy as this rub.
Summer in the south bar-b-q rub
Use this rub for chicken or pork recipes Southern style.
Star anise
It has a sharp, biting aniseed flavor. - Star anise is used in Chinese cuisine; frequently added to stews and other long cooked dishes of pork, duck and chicken, in stocks and soups. It is one of the ingredients in the Chinese five spice powder.
Lemongrass
Lemongrass, or lemon grass, is a tropical grass which looks like spring onions with a light lemony flavor.
Juniper
Pungent, bittersweet flavor reminiscent of pine.
Forestberry
A relatively new spice in Western cooking with a sweet berry flavor. Used with fruit and in baking.
Fenugreek
Fenugreek has a strong, harsh flavor. It is an important ingredient in many commercial curry powders and other Indian spice mixes. It is widely used in India.
Fennel
Sweet and light anise flavor, used in fish stocks and sauces or as season in salami and sausages, sometimes used in baking; an ingredient in the Chinese five spice powder.