What's Your Dirty Little Cooking Secret?

[SmokeyGator]

Campbells cream of mushroom soup. It goes in a lot of stuff.

[smokin fool]

My wife's go to when companies coming over....it also hides a lotta mistakes too.

[tbob4]

Gotta have it in mom’s mac and cheese

[Bogy]

If you wanna go all uptown and fancy you upgrade to Golden Mushroom or Beefy Mushroom. Or both.

[SheilaAnn]

Trader Joe’s pot stickers
wondra
TC (I toss fries with it and cut it with paprika for a quick blackening spice blend)

[mnavarre]

Just the blue bag & the red bag. Most of the rest of TJ's dumplings suck. (their frozen Orange Chicken is pretty damn bomb, though).
Wondra's great when you don't want to make a roux and don't want that corn starch slurry texture.

[SheilaAnn]

mnavarre yup! Straight up chicken or straight up pork pot stickers. I have tried their other dumplings and totally agree with you. I also grab a bag of the shelled edamame. Never tried the orange chicken.

[crazytown3]

Their orange chicken is addictive.

[Alan Brice]

I gofer coffee n Sammy’s cpl times a day for Mgrs. I can usually amass 20 or 30 little creamers per week. Use them for Mac n chee
dutch babies, bread cooks n corn what evers.
if I need buttermilk just add ACV. Only buy whole milk now to make my yogurt!
Wow that felt good to get off my chest!

[tbob4]

Hahahahaha

[smokin fool]

....its take out...
I just put it on my platters when no ones looking.

[bunky2021]

I buy ready-made hamburger patties at the grocery store. I love smash burgers but these are friendlier when weeknight dinner cooking is involved.

[Jfrosty27]

I do this too. It’s just me and the wife so it’s quick and easy. When on sale I buy a bunch and vac seal in twos. Makes burger night a breeze.

[Mosca]

I buy premade patties and smash them. They come out great.

[Spinaker]

I put Accent (MSG) in all of my rubs. Deal with it.

[tbob4]

Since you’re from The Land of Tonka I always assumed you had an Accent

[Spinaker]

Hahaha, I see what you did there. @tbob4

But, yeah, I am sure you would say that I do when we meet up.

[bunky2021]

Smoker folks and crazy health kick food people tend to run in different flocks. You'll get no judgemental looks from me, sir.

[ssennott]

I always boil sausage before putting them on the grill

[Spinaker]

Yep I do the same!

[Jfrosty27]

I’m also a boil in beer guy for most sausages.

[Steve B]

Beer and onions for the brats always.

[smokenoob]

"It’s Take Out"

[HouseHomey]

That stuff will kill you. So damn tasty though.

[HouseHomey]

Spinaker I add salt to my MSG.

[Steve B]

Who is this?😂

[HouseHomey]

Steve B Can’t you see my face with a hat and mustache in my avatar? Geeze. Ok, off to brunch…

[Steve B]

Hahahahaha

[rickgregory]

I don't think it'a dirty little secret but a more generalized version of using the Patak stuff.... For complex pastes and the like, I almost always use jarred/canned versions. For Thai, I use Maesri pastes. They're really good and while I've done scratch versions a couple of times, it doesn't make sense in time or money for the relatively slight difference in quality.

[Dewesq55]

Maestri red Thai curry paste is Da Bomb!

[rickgregory]

Dewesq55 - I like the green, panang and massaman too!