Well yeah bay leaves do usually get removed before serving
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Bay leaves, at this point is just a cultural thing
That leaf was conceived in wedlock.
I assume that's for garnish
Ah! The vegetarian plate!
In fairness, I’m not sure anyone knows if bay leaves even do anything.
my person, it absolutely does i love them very much, they are one of my favourite spices
... what?
Make a dish twice, once without the bay leaf. There is an obvious difference. It's fine to not like the taste of any particular spice but saying there is none is sort of crazy?
He's joking, it's people that don't cook often don't know what the difference is
Just smell it (not just bay leaves but whatever). If it has a smell, that aroma can be infused into cooking, though you'll want to make sure it's edible before just throwing it into dishes.
And you might need to sauté them for a bit (also called tempering) to infuse that aroma into oil, since it's not all water soluable.
I wasn't sure myself, so i made a "tea" out of bay leaves to check, and i can confirm that they do in fact have a pretty distinct flavor.
This is smart, I don't know when to put it in so I should get familiar with the taste
Might as well just boil up a handful of grass from the local park, about the same.
Bay leaf does provide a subtle earthy flavour, but it is also an anti fungal. I guess your left overs will stay edible a bit longer.
It also looks exactly the same as a clove leaf. A shop sold me a bag of mis-labelled clove leafs and my Bolognese that evening tasted most strange
Ah, yeah, the kind of cooking our household does is usually pretty strong favour wise (lots of South Asian cooking), it’s probably why neither my wife or I have ever noticed it.
Maybe if when make Italian food we should use it :)
While I support the message of never eating at Chipotle again, she's doing it for the wrong reasons.
I don't eat at Chipotle because they were bought by private equity and subsequently enshittified to further enrich someone who already had more wealth than could be spent in a lifetime.
She doesn't eat at Chipotle because she found a bayleaf in her burrito bowl...
That's where food comes from - trees, bushes, grasses, dirt.
Also - if Minecraft has taught me anything - punching animals until some chops appear in my inventory.
Cherry on top would have been if her name was Laurel
Leaf on top
Guess this person is unfamiliar with seasoning and the fact that bay leaves are used for flavor.
Wait, they go to a bay and pick up leaves to put in food? Urgh, yuck!
Why can't they just use the aromatic herb from a laurel tree?
You want one from a bay or harbor, where the pollution hast concentrated, and the bay leaf has been able to draw in all the tasty flavors of PCBs, chemical waste, sewage, fertilizers, pesticides, industrial run-off, etc. It's all those subtle flavors that make the Bay Leaf the King of Seasonings.
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I worked with a dude who loved "ramen" but had never had it from a restaurant. He didn't seem like he knew how to cook particularly well, and I'm not sure if he'd ever even left the suburbs he was born in.
One day he was talking about how excited he was to go to a real ramen shop over the weekend. So next time I see him I asked how it went. He sighed and said he got a veggie ramen because he found out the meat ones were "made with bone" and he was grossed out by it. I could only say "of course, that's how you make good soup." Then I had to explain how you make stock or split pea with ham soup, etc. I think I ruined soup for him.
Vegetarian soups are still delicious though. Soup is just awesome all around
I can't downvote you for an honestly expressed opinion, but soup is a disappointing meal.
I respect your wrong opinion
Tbh, that would be a functional dish without the broth.
Oooh, is that a soup though? Soup is something that's eaten with a soup spoon. I challenge you to eat noodles with a soup spoon. That looks damned fine, by the way.
[I never said my opinions were rational, only correct, like an absolute truth of the universe.]
Try a thai curry, seafood if you like it, or pork or veggie. So flavorful.
Other suggestions: pho, French onion soup, bouillabaise.
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