Eugh, can’t stand the sound of food of fish sauce! Used to read some fun detective novels set in Ancient Rome, lots of mentions of huge sealed jars of fermented fish sauce.
I agree Thai fish sauce smells awful in the bottle - but when added to an appropriate dish it is transformed and along with kaffir lime leaves is the aroma of of Thai street food. I also on rare occasions use fermented shrimp paste - it smells truly rank, but again once added to the right dish works wonders. As for asafoetida - WOW that's is an assault on the ol' olfactory bulb!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit. Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
I make a wonderful burmese curry, using said shrimp paste and lime leaves. But I do marvel at the inventiveness of people who said, "let's take some really smelly old shrimp and combine it with those fiery red things and the leaves off that tree to make a delicious meal"
They say we live and learn and we certainly do Obelixx. I wouldn't dream of putting a cheese into a vegetable stew but thinking about it why not, cheese in minestrone is delicious.
Cheese is great on onion soup to.
It's not just "great", cheese is part and parcel of onion soup.
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I also on rare occasions use fermented shrimp paste - it smells truly rank, but again once added to the right dish works wonders.
As for asafoetida - WOW that's is an assault on the ol' olfactory bulb!
Billericay - Essex
Knowledge is knowing that a tomato is a fruit.
Wisdom is not putting it in a fruit salad.
But I do marvel at the inventiveness of people who said, "let's take some really smelly old shrimp and combine it with those fiery red things and the leaves off that tree to make a delicious meal"
It's not just "great", cheese is part and parcel of onion soup.