I wanted to start a thread for recipes. However, I don't have very many recipes, so I'll start by asking for recipes.
Anyone have any good Caribbean type recipes, blackened, Jamaican jerk, things along those lines which they like? Asian noodles recipes (yakisoba, chow mein, ramen, etc.) and things along the lines of Hungarian food with paprika on everything would also be appreciated.
I bought a couple of cookbooks but I still haven't made anything from them. So far my recipes are mostly along the lines of "put premade spice mixes and/or sauces on rice" and "put premade spice mixes and/or sauces on eggs." I made carbonated hibiscus tea with honey once and it was good, and that was just my idea, but to be fair, people have had wilder ideas and it has worked.
I could link some recipes I was looking at, but I haven't actually tried many yet, despite having access to the entire Internet and having some free subscriptions to magazines that definitely have some recipes in them.
I can recommend pine needle tea though. Try to only use white pine or knobcone pine depending on availability due to the diterpene abietane acids found in many pines especially ponderosa pine (however, I did use ponderosa pine before I knew better and didn't suffer any ill effects so it's probably not that big of a deal unless you're a pregnant woman or you have some kind of sensitivity.) There is my consolation recipe. Well, I can probably spend a lot of the thread talking about the various things you can brew into tea(sans) and the best methods so that might be my main contribution and a real one too.
@mu4