What is the spice/spices that you can't cook without in almost all your recipes?

garlic and onions. I like to use them fresh-like cutting a real garlic, and real onion, not just using onion and garlic powder-though i sometimes do that. You can add real garlic-dice it, or at least slice it-in chicken soup. Very good. Very good in lots of other dishes as well.

Most of Indian food will never be complete without garam masala (consist of cinnamon bark, cloves, black pepper corn and elaichi or green cardamom), chili and coriander. India is a country which is rich in spices, I have learned to put other spices when my hubby taught me to cook their dish. Some of these Indian spices were mustard seed or rai, fenugreek seeds, coriander powder, jeera or cummin powder, haldi or turmeric, Aamchur or mango powder and much more. Before the only ingredient I know to put in my dishes were onion, ginger and garlic. But since I am married to an Indian, I have learned a lot in cooking food using different spices .

I use garlic a LOT. I also use chili powder or Cajun spices in a lot of things as well as my husband really loves spicy foods. But there is really nothing that I use absolutely all the time because I don't believe there are any spices that go well with everything.

Hiya frey, I can´t use a lot of spices for my Family as they don´t care much for them. I like the Spices you use and I use them when I can. For Pizzas here they like a lot of Salami chopped in small pieces and onion and lots of Cheese with bits of Corn on top and a good dosage of a Tomato paste they make here. Now that tomato paste has spices in it. So oddly enough they like it that way but not Spices used in everyday Dishes. If I do a cream of Asparagus (a packet of it) for example sometimes I will leave a part aside and cook the Chicken in that watered down though and it softens the meat a lot and it´s really already got spices in it too but they don´t know that. The chicken comes out much more tastier too. That is how they like their Pizzas. Spanish like Salami, Chorizo, and some sort of Barbecue Sauce as well as the Tomato one too. Can´t be of more help than that. Cream of Asparagus I use comes in a Packet like a Packet of Soup with less sodium and salt in it. The make of it is Knorr you can make your own of course but I use the packet because it´s got spices in it that they don´t taste I do though (grin). One way of getting around that I don´t like that business.

I would say it's chilli padi. I'm a spice eater anda fan of chili. So no matter what i'm eating, i will make sure there are chilli padi to go along with it. It adds alot of flavor to the food. Though it's spicy, but it's good for our health too/ Basil leaves are nice too, they smell good just that it's not as spicy. Black pepper is an alternative for me too.

Main spices are, salt, pepper. You have to put them on everything and start from there if you want to add something else. Like basil, parsley, oregano and or garlic. I usually use garlic on everything, I can even do without salt and pepper but not garlic. Your breath smells but it is the best.

well, since i am an asian, the spices that i usually use to cook are pepper, vetsin chicken powder and soya sauce... most of the food that i cook are stir-fry... so these are the basic spices to cook stir-fry food... take care and have a nice day...

I think we used soy sauce the most. Dishes here in our country mostly use soy sauce like Adobo which is my favorite.

I enjoy using basil as well. I also enjoy garlic, oregano, cinnamon, all spice, and a cajun seasoning that my husband has found recently. We use many spices depending on the type of food that we are making and the type of food that we will be serving it with. Spices are what makes the food have some texture and taste to it.

I am not sure if my answer will be correct because I am not sure if salt or cinnamon/sugar is considered a spice. In almost any recipe that I use it requires salt and sometimes even when it doesnt I will add some to make the food taste more flavorful. In cookies or any type of dessert adding a little cinnamon and sugar always makes it taste better. Not all but most.

i cannot go without black fine pepper, salt and sugar. these three add magic to my recipes. a dash here and there and voila, good and delicious food!