What is the *first* thing you grab when food is boring?

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marilynfl

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The source can be take-out food, a frozen dinner, or your own meal prepared from a new recipe. Where-ever it comes from, it reaches your tongue and your brain goes: "huh. well, that was boring."

I tend to add HARISSA to just about everything these days.

In fact, I'm beginning to wonder if I haven't corrupted a few papillae with that salty spiciness.

 
Hot sauce, lime juice, or garlic flakes, onion, chili peppers and salt in grinder from store

 
Miso, miso butter--just tried this on steamed bok choy and was thinking it had other umami uses too

I have a tub of miso that I bought for the miso pea dip I made at Christmas and have been looking for ways to use it up.
On the list: miso dressing, miso soup.....

Miso butter:

1/2 stick unsalted butter-softened
2 tablespoons miso

mash together and refrigerate.

 
This brings to mind what happened yesterday. I shop at a local health food store for certain items

and have often noticed their deli. So yesterday I checked it out and bought two sandwiches and a small potato salad for our lunch.

the potato salad was the most terrible I have ever had. It was totally tasteless, potatoes were still crunchy. I grabbed salt first, did not help, then a mix of herbs. I could not get past the crunchy potatoes.

The garlic parmesan roll was dry and tough, and the thinly sliced beef was chewy, so much so that a few bites I did not want to swallow. The super thinly sliced cucumbers, and avocado disappeared in the sandwich and the Havarti got lost. I was furious to have spent money on this poorly made sandwich and salad. Never again will I use that deli. We still have one sandwich left and I am waiting to see if my husband goes for it. If not, it will get tossed.

 
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