What ingredients do you find yourself cooking with most often?

[BCRanger10]

If you are a good cook, baker, grill-master, or whatever, what are the ingredients you use most often? What ingredient do you have to buy most often?

I use eggs a lot, but I make breakfast more than any other meal.

[goaded]

Salt. It goes in everything. We buy it wholesale, so not all that often.

Sugar and Salt
England
Once upon a time there was a father who had two daughters. Calling them to him one day he said to them, "What is the sweetest thing in the world?"

"Sugar," said the elder daughter.

"Salt," said the younger.

The father was angry at this last answer. But his daughter stuck to it, and so her father said to her, "I won't keep a daughter in my house who believes that salt is the sweetest thing in the world. You must leave me and seek another home."

So the younger daughter left her father's house and wandered here and there, suffering much hunger and cold, until t last she was befriended by the fairies. As she walked through a wood one day listening to the songs of the birds, a prince came hunting for deer, and when he saw her he fell in love with her at once. She agreed to marry him, and a great banquet was prepared at the prince's house. To this banquet the bride's father was bidden; but he did not know that the bride was his own daughter.

Now, at the wish of the bride, all the dishes were prepared without salt. So when the guests began to eat they found that the food was tasteless. At last one of them said, "There is no salt in the meat!"

And then all the guests said, "There is no salt in the meat!"

And the bride's father spoke the loudest of all. "Truly, salt is the sweetest thing in the world," he said, "though, for saying so, I sent my own daughter away from my house, and shall never see her face again."

Then the bride made herself known to her father, and fell on his neck and kissed him.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

I don't really cook, I seem to put different stuff in a pan, which eventually creates a meal.

[jazzy34]

McCormick has a multi purpose seasoning that I really like and use on a lot of food. :)

[petitedollbabee]

Cheese, chicken stock and garlic powder are my most frequently used.

[MrChinaski]

onions, garlic, chilli and tomatoes flow perpetually into my kitchen; capsicum (bell peppers?) would be fifth.

[beenherebefore]

Olive oil, onion and garlic.

[Agape93]

Probably cumin, paprika and Italian seasoning.

[queenofcardio]

I always start with onions

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Every good things start with tears of joy yep.

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

((not sure of grammar here, should I use singular or plural?))

[sage2021]

Probably white sugar.

[NathanDavis]

fresh produce... not canned, not frozen..

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

such a preppy...

[NathanDavis]

@Maybe_Maybe_not I don't know what that is, but... lol

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

Yeah I guess my joke translates poorly in English

[NathanDavis]

@Maybe_Maybe_not I was six years old, back at my grandmas place... when I first started to "cut and clean" chicken, beef, pork... and others

I've always known how "home grown" flesh is supposed to look like... and, not only we've cooked for hours in the kitchens, but we also spend years around the grills and BBQ, the pits, so I KNOW how locally grown markets look like

in the last six years or so... I know that when I go to most places today, the chicken especially, but also some beef and pork have started to look more like rubbery fibers and other strange textures and feels, so I am sure those are filled with hormones and other stuff, the flesh is "overgrown" and I am not a conspiranoid person... I won't be yelling these things will make my sperm gay, no... it just doesn't cook the same, it doesn't taste the same... it is not better

but still... I can usually tell when flesh and produce come from more local and "homegrown" sources, and when they're mass/lab/overgrown by gigantic corporations

and I also know very well that US regulations suck ass and they don't give a damn about it either, they just want to profit

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

You come up with the most unexpected mini essays sometimes lol, but okay you mean you come from a somewhat traditional farm background. All right all right

[NathanDavis]

@Maybe_Maybe_not not me... but my food, did

and I also work close to certain industries, which is how I know that most of the produce in this American lands are NOW coming from one big mass producer, and their interest in quality is ZERO

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

And I don't even want to think about how animals are managed by mass production lol

[NathanDavis]

@Maybe_Maybe_not I'll spare you the visuals... lol

[Maybe_Maybe_not]

yes please !

[thegreenyogi]

Flour mostly