What do you usually put with, or on, your food?

I think it is very British to add sauces to food, possibly because the British food is quite bland? Here in Italy it is very rare to add anything other than lemon but even that does not go on as many things as it appears to in your part of the woods. It is used with fish and certain meat dishes if the meat is grilled. Olive oil is also used on plain simple boiled vegetables and salads. Most of the other dishes already have a sauce of their own and would not require anything additional. We use herbs a lot to make a slice of grilled meat a bit more interesting but not sauces.

I hate it when I've spent time and effort on making a meal and someone just covers it with ketchup! If I'm adding anything at the table for my own meal, its likely to be balsamic vinegar. I prefer lime to lemon. I remember my son asking for chips and custard because he'd seen Henry's Cat (cartoon character) eating it. He still assures me it was very nice...

Hubby says a good steak needs nothing but salt and pepper. We like horseradish with beef, lemon with chicken or tartar sauce. All kinds of mustards go with sausages. Yum! Then of course there is sweet and sour sauce for the oriental food at the Chinese restaurant, and the hot mustard there as well.

hi thea hatley here well as I am in a senior retirement center now I have only two choices to add to food salt or pepper.when I did my own cooking it was pepper and a bit of basil or a little horse' radish or catsup on meat or frenchs yellow mustard on my'meat.I like to use some herbs in my cooking.here we tend to use pretty much'what we like.

Well being a typical bloke with such refined tastes I do love a good dollop of tomato sauce or brown sauce with my food. I will even go as far as having some barbecue sauce as well. Well I did say I had refined tastes. But I do like having lemon with chicken and also fish. But I wouldn't and haven't ever had it with pork, beef and lamb as it doesn't sound like it would go.

While cooking things i usually use salt and pepper and then some garlic to add a good taste to things. I also add different things if cooking on the grill maybe some spicy things to add a little touch of hot spice to it and it all depends of what your cooking or going to eat. Of course when eating a hot dog you can add ketchup and mustard and then some other foods to eat such as chili, relish and cheese or maybe onions depending on what you want.

There are two main courses that I want to discuss here: the soup and the stakes. In my country (Romania), we eat a lot of soup. Most of the people can't even conceive lunch and dinner without a soup. While cooking the soup, just after the soup is done, most of the people add herbs. I hate most of these herbs from the bottom of my heart. I think parsley should be eradicated from the planet. Parsley is the most used herb, but dill, lovage and savory are also used. Of the above I can only tolerate the dill and the savory in my soup or any other food. The rest give the food a grass taste and if you put too much the entire food tastes like that. The spices most used for stakes (or any kind of meat-based food that goes in the oven) are the pepper (grains, not powder) and bay laurel (Laurus nobilis) leaves. I hate them as well... I've got the same problem with adding to much - I want to feel the taste of the meat, not the taste of pepper or laurel... The basil is not used so often (Thank God!). I've had salad once containing basil leaves and it was disgusting. I think basil belongs in the priest's hand or in other religious use, not inside foods.

pepper... i like putting pepper in always any dishes. especially for pasta and soups. nyam!

Well in American most people use salt and pepper when cooking most foods. I use it on some foods but not all foods. For what I use usually depends on what I cooking and how I am cooking it. There is a seasoning blend that I love to use on grilled meats and it is called soul seasoning, I am not exactly sure what is all in it, but I know there is salt in it. I gives meats a fantastic flavor.

nothing unusal for me, i use catsup, mustard & mayo on different sandwiches, to cook w/i use alot of garlic, oregano, onion & various things. I don't use alot of lemon in my cooking but love it in my ice tea. Saw on the news about fires in greece. I hope none of them are close to u. Take care.

Well since I've moved to Mexico my tastes have changed a little, not because I like it but "When in Rome do as the Romans do!" I guess! They put fresh lime juice over everything, and of course the salsas (sauces) there are usually a green one, a red one, and a black one! The red is hot red chillie peppers, the green is an avocado based sauce usually with jalapeño pepper in the mix, and the black is a black bean and black pepper sauce! I had to get used to the fact that they all vary in heat, some places the red is very spicy hot, and others the green is very spicy hot! Since I don't like hot hot, I take a little sample of each before application! LOL! tdemex

I usually like to have a sprinkle of fresh coriander on my food, it always enhances the flavour as well as adding a little of it's own special flavour to the food. I have to admit I quite like having ketchup with a lot of foods, even though I know it's not that good for me!

WE have this special fish preparation in mustard sauce and mustard oil, the fish is cooke don steam and it tastes divine. Indian foods are generally cooked with a lot of spices and in most cases some remain common. Strangely absence or presence of an extra spice bring about a total change in taste. We do not use any kind of sauce in particular other than the most popular mustard sauce in Bengal In kerala, where I was born and brought up, we put coconut in each and everything possible. hi hi seriously in desserts, meals, breakfast, in vegetables u name it...But I like its taste anyway. We cook with freshly grated coconut, coconut milk, coconut cut in cmall pieces and mainly most dishes are made in coconut oil. It is quite uncommon out there to mix vegetables with non veg. i came to this part of India to see a lot of vegetables being cooked along with nonveg. Like using bottle gourd with beef (it tastes yum), marinating beefin papaya puree and then cooking it too has a lovely taste. Aso in Kerala we make a sweet dish of lentils, molasses and coconut milk. People here do not even dare to taste it saying there cant be no worse combination!!!

Hi thea09, Well since I am new to this whole cooking thing I can't say for sure what is the thing people use most ,I like to add lemon to my salmon I love the way that taste, one thing I do notice is people eat a lot of pasta here, I like it but not all the time, I also have High blood pressure, so I have to watch what I eat,I like to use mrs dash seasoning, too bad I could not share more.

In the UK we have traditions that have been passed through from generation to generation that particular meats especially for Sunday roasts have their own sauces and gravies etc. For turkey it's cranberry sauce, for pork it's apple sauce, for lamb it's mint sauce for beef it's horseradish sauce. But I love apple sauce and will use it to accompany any meat. The only meat I don't like is lamb. I also like coleslaw as well which is a dish of carrots, cabbage, onion in mayonnaise, that is great as a salad garnish or with chicken, good thing with coleslaw is that it is so versatile. I like salad cream as well which I usually put on chicken and fish, normally for fish it's tartare sauce which I don't like. But it's down to individual tastes.

Oh golly...there are so many things we add to food. Gravy is a biggy with meat, especially if the meat is roasted or makes it's own juice...gravy is made from the pan juices. We use mayonnaises and a host of other salad dressings, herbs, spices, condiments, vinegars oils and sauces from all over the world. My favourites are soy sauce, which itself has many variations, Worcestershire sauce, Oyster sauce, bechemel sauce, cheese sauce, tomato sauce, oyster sauce, sweet chilli sauce and lemon and lime juice. Gosh, I could go on and on but there are too many. I had a friend from Cyprus who made roast lamb and veggies with lemon and it was beautiful. I have never been able to recreate the wonderful taste and flavours of that meal.

i add onion and garlic to a lot of dishes. i just like it,and i think it's good for you. i like sauces myself,what sauce i use depends on the cut of meat. a lot of people use this stuff called "miracle whip" on their asparagus here and.. it's nasty.in my opinion,anyway.

We like alot of condiments here in my household. We use things like: BBQ Sauce, Ketchup, Ranch Dressing, & occasionally mustard depending on what we are making. But while cooking we put on a seasoning called Natures Seasonings by Mortons and it's great on meat & fries & veggies. I only add a condiment to it unless it really really needs it or I just like it that way.

I often add red pepper in my cooking. in my area many food ingredients are used. frequently used are chicken, rice, galangal, bay leaves and others.

thea09, thanks for sharing that Greece uses lots of lemon.. this is the first time I know about this.. as I am living in Malaysia, it's a multi racial country, and as a Chinese race, we normally had some seasoning to our food, such as soy sauce, pepper and salt.. We also like to put gravy in our rice, even when we are young... apparently this way, we have better appetite to finish the rice too.. in addition, we also have curry as the alternative.. We will boil clear soup and enjoys it with the rice, and sometimes, we flood the rice with our soup in order to swallow it easier too..