A weeknight pasta where the blend is the whole point. Bloomed in butter, cut with starchy pasta water, finished with parmesan and lemon. The technique is older than most of the ingredients in your kitchen.
Salmon roasts hot and fast. Broccolini in the same oven. Basmati cooks alongside. Yogurt sauce ties it together.
A pressure-cooker khichdi. Rice and two dals cooked into a loose porridge, served with a tray of toppings and warm bloomed ghee on the side.
A clean turkey patty. Provolone or havarti melted with the spice bloomed on top. Build your own from a tray of toppings.
The Saturday version. Roasted chicken stock, two-stage roux, dry-brined bird, the works. Takes a day. Worth every hour.
A pantry condiment built from dijon, yellow mustard, honey, mayo, vinegar, and the blend. Works on everything.
A simple cast iron technique. Blend rub, butter and thyme baste, more blend at rest, pan juices over.
A whole branzino or a clean filet. Hot oven or charcoal grill. Herb salsa to finish.
Shrimp seared hard in cast iron, tucked into warm tortillas with charred corn slaw and a quick crema.
A weeknight pasta where the blend is the whole point. Bloomed in butter, cut with starchy pasta water, finished with parmesan and lemon. Less is more.
Cajun Masala blooms in butter. The Kashmiri turns the fat a beautiful brick-red. Cumin, cinnamon, and fennel sit underneath like they've always been there. Starchy pasta water and parmesan emulsify it into a sauce that clings to every strand.
Don't skip the bloom. Spices in cold butter are flat. Spices in warm butter, off the heat, for thirty seconds, are a sauce.
This is a real cacio e pepe and aglio e olio technique. Starchy water emulsifies butter and cheese into a sauce. Without it you get a greasy slick. With it you get something that looks like it came out of a restaurant.
1 teaspoon Cajun Masala per serving of pasta is the rule. Push to 1.5 if you want more heat. The blend is low-salt by design, so taste at the end and finish with kosher salt as needed.
Parmigiano is the easy default. Pecorino romano makes it sharper and saltier. Grana padano is fine. Pre-grated cheese in a bag will not melt the same way. Use a block.
Long strands hold the sauce best. Bucatini is the move if you can find it.
Cilantro leans into the warm spice thread of the blend and works especially well with the shrimp or cream variations. Parsley is the neutral choice. Scallion adds bite. Pick one, not all three.
Pat 8 oz peeled shrimp dry, season lightly with Cajun Masala (about 1/2 teaspoon), and sear in 1 tablespoon olive oil over medium-high heat for 90 seconds a side. Set aside, then build the pasta in the same pan to pick up the fond. Add the shrimp back at step 5.
Replace 2 tablespoons of the pasta water in step 4 with 2 tablespoons of heavy cream. Don't add more. This isn't supposed to be a cream sauce, just a slightly richer version of the same dish.
The same recipe works with House Cajun for a more classic Cajun butter pasta. Smokier, more peppery, no warm spice thread. Skip the cilantro option. Finish with parsley or scallion.
A pinch of Aleppo or red pepper flakes into the bloom.
Wilt 2 packed cups of baby spinach into the pan in step 4 before the pasta goes in.
A crisp dry white that can hold up to spice. Vermentino, Grüner Veltliner, or a dry Riesling. A cold pilsner works too. Skip heavy reds. They fight the warm spice thread.
Roman shepherds in the Apennines invented cacio e pepe at least two thousand years ago because dried pasta and aged sheep's cheese could survive weeks in the mountains, and the starch in the boiling water bound them into sauce without butter or cream. The dish stayed peasant cooking until the 21st century, when chef Luciano Monosilio won a national award for his version in 2013 and pulled cacio e pepe into the canon of fine dining.
Then in 2025, eight physicists at the Max Planck Institute published a peer-reviewed paper in Physics of Fluids analyzing the dish's failure modes. Using high-speed cameras and thermal imaging, they identified a state they called the "Mozzarella Phase," in which insufficient starch concentration causes the cheese proteins to clump catastrophically. Their conclusion: the difference between a great cacio e pepe and a ruined one is a roughly 2.5% starch concentration in the pasta water, give or take.
The most beloved garlic-noodle pasta in America right now is also a pasta-water dish, but it isn't Italian. Helene An, a Vietnamese refugee who fled to San Francisco, invented the dish she called Garlic Noodles in the early 1970s at her restaurant Thanh Long. She used spaghetti, twenty cloves of garlic, fish sauce, oyster sauce, soy sauce, and parmesan. Kenji López-Alt's adaptation became the New York Times' most-read recipe of 2022 with 1.2 million views. The pasta-bloom-emulsion-with-pasta-water move travels.
Cajun Masala is built around a House Cajun base, with three additions toasted into a warm thread underneath: cumin, cassia cinnamon, and fennel. Plus Kashmiri chili powder for fruit and color. In a long cook the warm thread reads as background depth. In a fast pasta like this one, the bloom is what unlocks it. Heat opens the volatile oils in the cumin and fennel and lets the cassia release its sweet woodiness. Thirty seconds in foaming butter is enough.
The Kashmiri does something specific too. Unlike cayenne, which is mostly heat, Kashmiri chili is grown in the foothills of the western Himalayas and prized for color over heat. It turns the butter a deep brick red without making the dish sharp. The dish you serve looks like it has more going on than it does. Color is a flavor signal. The eye reads the red and the mouth confirms it.
The cooks who get the most out of this blend treat it like a finishing tool, not a base seasoning. Bloom it. Taste at the end. Adjust salt separately. The blend's job is not to season the dish from the start. The blend's job is to give the dish a personality once the fundamentals are in place. That principle holds for every recipe here.
A weeknight dinner that earns its keep. Salmon roasts hot and fast. Broccolini in the same oven. Basmati cooks alongside. A cool, garlicky yogurt sauce on the plate ties it together.
The technique that matters: high heat, dry fish, don't overcrowd. The blend does the rest. Pat the salmon bone-dry before it hits the oil. Wet fish steams. Dry fish browns.
Make the yogurt sauce first so it has time to come to room temperature. Cold-from-the-fridge yogurt mutes the flavor.
3/4 teaspoon House Cajun per 6 oz fillet. The blend is low-salt, so the small pinch of additional kosher salt matters. Don't skip it.
Salmon is done at 120°F for medium-rare, 125°F for medium. An instant-read thermometer is the only way to be sure. The flake test works but is less reliable.
The skin protects the flesh from the pan and crisps as it roasts. If you don't want to eat it, eat around it. Skinless fillets roast unevenly.
Make it first or while the rice cooks. Cold-from-the-fridge yogurt mutes the flavor. Room temperature is the move.
If you want to push the dish toward the dinner-party version, this is the move. Adds about 8 minutes. Thinly slice 2 shallots into rings. Heat 1/4 cup neutral oil in a small skillet over medium heat. Add the shallots and cook, stirring often, until deep golden brown, about 6 minutes. Pull them when they're a shade lighter than you think. Drain on paper towels and salt immediately. Scatter over the finished plates.
Save the shallot oil. It's the best thing in your fridge for the next week.
Asparagus or green beans (same timing). Broccoli florets (add 2 minutes). Brussels sprouts halved (add 5 minutes and start them before the salmon). Charred cabbage wedges (add 5 minutes). Cherry tomatoes (toss with oil and salt, roast alongside the salmon for the full 12 minutes until they burst).
Use Cajun Masala on the salmon for a warmer, more aromatic version. The Kashmiri turns the fish a deep red and the warm spice thread plays beautifully with the yogurt sauce. Add a small pinch of Cajun Masala to the yogurt itself if you go this direction.
Double everything. The salmon roasts on the same pan. The broccolini needs a second pan to avoid crowding.
Build a bowl with rice on the bottom, broccolini and flaked salmon on top, yogurt sauce drizzled, crispy shallots scattered.
A crisp white. Albariño, Sancerre, or unoaked Chardonnay. A dry rosé works year-round. For beer, a saison or a witbier. Salmon and Cajun spice can both push a wine around, so stay light and acidic.
A plate of salmon next to herbed rice next to a charred green vegetable is older than most people think. The Persian dish sabzi polo ba mahi (herbed rice with fish) has been the traditional meal for Nowruz, the Persian New Year on the spring equinox, for at least a thousand years. The herbs (parsley, dill, cilantro, fenugreek) symbolize rebirth. The fish symbolizes the sea. The vernal equinox is March 20, and across Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, and the Persian diaspora, hundreds of millions of people eat a version of this exact plate on that exact day.
Basmati rice itself is so prized in Persian and Indian cooking that it spent 6,000 years being domesticated from a wild grass. Genetic analysis published in Nature in 2018 traced its lineage to a single ancestral plant in the Himalayan foothills.
The capsaicin-and-yogurt move on this plate is its own piece of evolution. Capsaicin is fat-soluble and water-insoluble, which means a sip of water spreads it around your mouth while a spoon of yogurt physically dissolves it. Cooks in India, Iran, Greece, Turkey, and Mexico independently discovered this centuries before anyone could explain why. The plate you're eating tonight is, technically, an experiment seven civilizations finished running for you.
House Cajun is built around dual paprika (sweet and smoked), dual brown sugar, and a quiet coriander note as the aromatic bridge. On a fatty fish like salmon, that combination does specific work. The smoked paprika reads as if the fish has been on a grill even when it hasn't. The brown sugars help the surface caramelize in the dry oven heat. The coriander is the only quiet aromatic in the blend, and on salmon it surfaces noticeably because there's nothing else competing for that aromatic register.
Salmon also has a relatively high natural fat content, which matters because most of the flavor compounds in dried herbs and spices are fat-soluble. They bind to the fat in the fish as it cooks. A leaner protein like chicken breast holds spice on the surface. Salmon absorbs it. That's why a small amount of blend, evenly distributed, is enough to season a whole fillet from the inside out.
The Cajun Masala variation works on this dish because the warm spice thread, especially the cumin, has a long-standing affinity with oily fish in the Persian and Mughal traditions. The Kashmiri also helps the fillet visually. A Cajun Masala salmon comes out a striking deep red, almost tandoor-like, without any actual tandoor work. If you serve this dish to guests and want them to ask what's on the fish before they take a bite, switch to the Masala.
A simple cast iron technique that works for both proteins. Blend rub, butter and thyme baste, more blend at rest, pan juices over.
What's settled. A single master recipe for steak or pork chop. Cast iron, hot. House Cajun rub on a dry-patted protein. Butter, garlic, and thyme baste in the last minutes. More blend dusted on the protein at rest. Pan juices spooned over before serving.
What's coming. Specific cuts and timing (ribeye, strip, bone-in pork chop). The right pan temperature for each. Whether to flip once or every thirty seconds. How long to rest. The exact ratio of blend on the rub versus on the rest. The role of fresh thyme versus oregano.
A pantry condiment built from dijon, yellow mustard, honey, mayo, vinegar, and the blend. Works on everything.
What's settled. Dijon, yellow mustard, honey, a small amount of mayo, a splash of vinegar, the blend. House Cajun for the standard version. Cajun Masala for the variation, where the warm spice thread plus honey is genuinely beautiful. Thirty seconds in a bowl with a whisk.
What's coming. Specific ratios. The right vinegar (cider versus white wine versus champagne). Whether to use raw honey or filtered. How long it keeps in the fridge. What it pairs with: pretzels, sandwiches, roasted potatoes, fried chicken, chicken tenders, roasted carrots, brussels sprouts.
A whole branzino or a clean filet. Hot oven or charcoal grill. Herb salsa to finish. The Kashmiri does the work on the skin.
What's settled. Either a whole fish (branzino, snapper, or similar) or a clean filet. Both work. High dry heat, either oven or charcoal grill. Skin scored, blend rubbed on flesh and skin, oil generously. Herb salsa to finish (parsley, mint, capers, garlic, lemon, anchovy, olive oil). Serves 4. Cajun Masala is excellent on this and worth its own callout.
What's coming. The exact oven temp and timing for whole fish versus filet. How to score the skin. When to use grill versus oven. The salsa proportions. The right fish to buy and what to ask the fishmonger for.
Shrimp seared hard in cast iron, tucked into warm tortillas with charred corn slaw and a quick crema.
What's settled. Shrimp seared hard and fast in a cast iron pan with House Cajun. Warm corn or flour tortillas. A charred corn slaw with lime, jalapeño, scallion, and cilantro. A quick crema with sour cream, lime, garlic, and a small amount of the blend. Casual dinner-party food.
What's coming. Shrimp size and quantity per person. Whether to char the corn under the broiler or in the same cast iron. Whether to add a pickled element. How to keep tortillas warm. Cabbage versus iceberg as the slaw base. The right hot sauce to recommend.
A pressure-cooker khichdi. Rice, two dals, and a properly seasoned base, cooked into a loose porridge. Brought to the table with a tray of toppings and a small bowl of warm ghee bloomed with more Cajun Masala. Each person builds their own bowl.
Khichdi is one of the oldest documented dishes on the subcontinent. Rice and dal cooked together in one pot until they merge into something soft and creamy. Comfort food. Sick food. Baby food. Hangover food.
The base is fully seasoned, not blank. Cajun Masala goes into the pot at the start, alongside hing, fresh ginger, whole cumin, turmeric, and a slit green chili. The bloomed ghee at the table is a second, more aromatic hit of the same flavor. The toppings are texture, brightness, and richness, added to taste.
Asafoetida is what makes a khichdi taste like a real khichdi to anyone who grew up eating it. It gives the dish a round, slightly oniony, deeply savory quality that no other ingredient can replicate. A small jar from any Indian grocery lasts years. If you don't have it, the dish is still good, but it's slightly less defined. Worth getting.
2 teaspoons Cajun Masala in the pot, plus 1 teaspoon in the bloomed ghee. Total of 3 teaspoons across the dish. The blend is doing the warm-spice work in two places. Don't add it anywhere else.
Water makes a cleaner, more traditional khichdi. Chicken stock makes it richer and more savory, closer to a chicken-and-rice soup with Indian aromatics. Both are correct. Use stock if you have homemade or good-quality low-sodium.
Loose porridge. The spoon should leave a slow trail when you drag it. Too thick is a tight pilaf, which is wrong. Too loose is soup, which is also wrong. Aim for the middle and trust the eye.
Frying onions in ghee burns the milk solids before the onions get crispy. Neutral oil has a higher smoke point and gets the onions truly crisp without bitterness. Save the ghee for the bloom, where its flavor is the whole point.
Thai bird is the hottest and brightest. Fresno is medium-hot with fruit. Serrano is hot and grassy. Jalapeño is mild. Pick what suits your table. Slice thin so a little goes a long way.
Microwave on a paper towel for 30 to 45 seconds. Puffs up crisp without oil.
Add 8 oz boneless skinless chicken thighs, cut into 1-inch pieces, to the pot before pressure cooking. Comes out shredded and tender. Use chicken stock too. Same cook time.
Stir a packed handful of chopped spinach or kale into the pot during the last few minutes of natural release. The residual heat wilts it perfectly.
Stir 2 tablespoons of plain ghee directly into the pot before serving, in addition to the bloomed ghee at the table. Two layers of ghee, two different jobs.
The same recipe works with House Cajun in both places. The dish becomes more about smoke and pepper, less about the warm spice thread of cinnamon, cumin, and fennel. A different read of the same dish.
Cold lager or a wheat beer. A dry Riesling. Salted lassi if you want classic. Chilled Beaujolais cru for something unexpected. Light enough not to fight, fruity enough to play.
The Greek diplomat Megasthenes wrote about khichdi in 300 BCE while traveling through Mauryan India. The Moroccan explorer Ibn Battuta ate it for breakfast every day during his stay in Delhi in 1350. The Russian merchant Afanasy Nikitin described it in his 15th-century travel chronicle. Mughal emperor Akbar's vizier had it documented in seven distinct variations in the 1590 Ain-i-Akbari, and the same vizier reportedly ordered 1,200 kilograms of khichdi cooked daily so anyone passing his house could eat.
In 2015, archaeologists at Ter, Maharashtra, uncovered burnt 2,000-year-old pots containing rice and moong dal cooked together, physical proof of khichdi from Roman times. The Anglo-Indian dish kedgeree, a Victorian-era British breakfast staple, is just colonized khichdi with smoked fish added; it spread across Edwardian England in the late 1800s and is still served at country houses today.
The most extravagant khichdi ever made was probably the fake one served at the court of the 19th-century Nawab of Lucknow. His royal chef shaved pistachios into pieces shaped like lentils and almonds shaved into shapes resembling rice grains, and served the entire dish made of nuts pretending to be khichdi. A flex of pure technique.
Mahatma Gandhi ate khichdi during his hunger strikes because it was the simplest thing that could keep a person alive: rice and dal cooked together provide all nine essential amino acids, which is exactly why the dish became the canonical recovery food across the entire subcontinent. New mothers eat it. Sick children eat it. Babies eat it as their first solid food. It's the world's longest-running answer to "what should I eat tonight?"
Cajun Masala lives in two places in this dish. Two teaspoons in the pot, infusing the cooking liquid for the entire pressure cycle. One teaspoon in the bloomed ghee, hitting the bowl as a separate, more aromatic burst at the table. Same blend, two completely different deliveries.
In the pot, the blend's warm spice thread (cumin, cassia cinnamon, fennel) infuses through the rice and dal as they break down. The Kashmiri colors the porridge a soft yellow-orange that sits beautifully alongside the turmeric. The smoked paprika contributes a low, savory depth that you taste but can't identify. The pot version of the blend is background. The blend at the bottom of every spoon.
In the bloomed ghee, the same blend reads completely differently. Off-heat, in foaming butter, for thirty seconds, the volatile oils that survived the pressure cook get a second chance to bloom. The ghee turns brick-red. The aromatics jump. When that ghee hits a bowl of pale khichdi, the contrast is the whole point of the technique. The pot is the song. The bloomed ghee is the chorus.
The blend's hybrid identity, with one foot in Louisiana and one in Awadh, is uniquely suited to a dish like this. A pure Cajun seasoning would feel out of place in a khichdi. A pure garam masala wouldn't have the smoked paprika and Kashmiri color that make the dish visually striking. Cajun Masala does both jobs at once because it was built to.
The Saturday version. Roasted chicken stock, two-stage roux, dry-brined bird, the works. Takes a day. Worth every hour.
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The earliest written reference to gumbo in human history sits inside a 1764 New Orleans colonial archive entry. The record involved a woman named Comba who was being questioned about a missing pig, and the document captured the word "gombeau," gumbo. It would be another forty years before the dish appeared in any cookbook.
The dish itself comes from a collision of cultures unlike anything else in American food. The word is West African Bantu (ki ngombo, meaning okra). The roux is French. The filé powder is Choctaw, ground from sassafras leaves. The trinity of onion-celery-bell pepper is a Cajun adaptation that swapped carrots out of French mirepoix because Louisiana grew bell peppers and France didn't. The fish sauce in modern New Orleans gumbos is Vietnamese, brought by a wave of refugees in 1975 who reshaped the city's seafood economy and brought their pantry into the pot.
Gumbo became Louisiana's official state cuisine in 2004, after a legislative debate over whether the state should recognize Cajun gumbo or Creole gumbo that lasted longer than the actual vote. They compromised. Both got in.
Cajun Masala is the gumbo-forward blend in the line. The warm spice thread of cumin, cassia cinnamon, and fennel is built specifically for what happens to spices in a three-hour stew. Quick sears burn off the volatile oils. Long braises let them slowly bond to the fat, the liquid, and the meat as everything reduces together. The longer the cook, the more the blend opens up. What reads as "background" in a quick recipe reads as the spine of the dish in a gumbo.
The Kashmiri chili powder also does specific work in a gumbo. The dark roux is already deeply colored. The Kashmiri lifts that color toward red-brown and away from pure brown. A cup of finished gumbo with Cajun Masala has visibly more life in the bowl than the same gumbo with a generic Cajun seasoning. The smoked paprika in the House Cajun base then reinforces what the dark roux is already doing on the smoke axis.
The recipe uses Cajun Masala in three places: a tablespoon on the chicken at the dry-brine, two to three tablespoons at the pot build with the trinity, and a final correction at the end of the cook. House Cajun works too and is noted in the recipe as a fully acceptable substitute, but Cajun Masala is what the dish was tuned for.
A clean turkey burger built around one technique: the spice blooms on the melting cheese, not in the meat. The patty is plain. The cheese is mild. The bloom is the entire point. Each cook builds their own from a tray of toppings.
The patty is plain, salt and pepper only. The cheese is havarti or provolone, mild enough to stay out of the way. The bloom of House Cajun on the warm cheese is where the brand lives in this dish. A tablespoon of water and a lid finish the melt.
The bloom and the steam are two separate moves. Spice on warming cheese first. Then water in the pan and lid on. Don't combine them.
Mayo on the bottom bun keeps it from getting soggy. Lettuce shields the bun from patty juice. Patty with cheese sits in the middle as the structural anchor. Tomato sits on top of the patty so the salt and juice flow down. Pickled onion or other crunchy toppings go just under the top bun. The top bun gets nothing wet so it stays crisp from the toast.
Salt and pepper only on the patty. 1/2 teaspoon House Cajun per burger goes on the cheese during the bloom. Plus 1.5 teaspoons in the Cajun mayo. The blend shows up in two places, both off-meat.
Ground turkey is mild and absorbent. Spices in the meat get lost or bitter. Spices on hot fat (the cheese) bloom and stay bright. Same logic as a tadka.
Havarti is creamier and slightly nuttier. Provolone is sharper and a little tangier. Both melt cleanly and stay out of the spice's way. White cheddar would also work but pushes the burger toward a sharper diner profile. Pepper jack is a classic Cajun move but doubles down on heat where this burger doesn't need it.
Potato rolls are softer and slightly sweet, which complements the spice. Sesame buns are sturdier and more neutral. Both work. Skip brioche, it's too rich for this and competes with the cheese.
165°F internal, full stop. Ground turkey carries a higher salmonella risk than ground beef and the texture difference at 160 vs 165 is negligible. Use a thermometer.
Turkey toughens fast when handled too much. Mix until just combined, form gently, cook once.
Alfalfa sprouts have a higher risk of bacterial contamination than other vegetables. Skip them for pregnant or immunocompromised eaters. Otherwise they're fine and add a great fresh crunch.
Five to ten minutes minimum. Untreated tomato makes the burger soggy in 30 seconds. Salted tomato is a different ingredient: concentrated, sweet, almost dressed.
The same recipe works with Cajun Masala in both the bloom and the mayo. The warm spice thread on melting cheese is genuinely interesting. Pair with the avocado and sprouts for a richer, more aromatic version of the burger.
Add a fried egg with a runny yolk on top of the patty. Bacon recommended. Serve with a hash brown or breakfast potato.
Skip the top bun. Serve on toasted sourdough with extra Cajun mayo and a lightly dressed gem lettuce salad on the side.
No bun. Patty over a bed of greens, all the toppings as a salad, Cajun mayo as the dressing.
Form 8 patties instead of 4, cook 2 minutes per side, serve on potato slider rolls. The bloom step works the same.
A cold lager or pilsner. A wheat beer with citrus. A dry rosé. A chilled Beaujolais. For something punchier, a sour or gose pairs surprisingly well with the bloomed cheese. Skip heavy reds, they fight the spice.
Turkey burgers first appeared at roadside drive-ins in 1930s California, where Depression-era turkey overproduction had crashed wholesale prices and made turkey cheaper than beef. By December 1939, a Corpus Christi drug store was advertising "Something New: Turkey-Burger with waffle potatoes and cranberry sherbet, 19 cents." That same year, someone in Phoenix trademarked the name "Turkey-Burger" with the Arizona Secretary of State.
The dish exploded during World War II. Beef, pork, veal, and lamb were all rationed, but turkey wasn't, and lunchroom owners pivoted overnight. Chain Store Age magazine ran tested turkey burger recipes for soda fountains and luncheonettes in 1941 and reported that turkey burgers had higher profit margins than beef. After the war, beef rationing ended and the turkey burger nearly died, surviving only at California roadside stands and a handful of holdouts. The 1980s health-food movement resurrected it as a "healthier" option, which is the version most people still know: usually dry, often over-mixed, almost never as good as it could be.
The bloom-on-the-cheese technique on this burger is doing what those original 1938 patties never had: actual flavor. Plain turkey is a forgiving canvas. Spice-bloomed cheese is the painting.
The clean, utilitarian workhorse. Pure Cajun philosophy with a low-salt build, dual paprika, dual brown sugar, and coriander as the quiet aromatic bridge. Heat-forward, smoky, slightly sweet. The blend you reach for on a Tuesday.
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The brand philosophy in a jar. House Cajun base with a warm Indian spice thread underneath, plus Kashmiri chili for fruit and color. The cumin, cinnamon, and fennel are background, present but not identifiable. Better in a long cook than a quick sear.
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Los Angeles. Former jazz saxophonist. Marketing professional by day. Serious home cook for as long as I can remember. The spice line started in my own kitchen, frustrated with what was on the shelf, and turned into a real project somewhere around the third version of the Cajun Masala.
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