BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?

Subject: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 03:12 PM

I have a pea soup with ham boiling on the stove. The aroma in the house is tantalizing. Sooo, what's your fav? turkey? beef? coffee? bacon?.... ?

Bobert... weed don't count eh?

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 03:50 PM

Frying onions!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: fat B****rd
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 03:52 PM

Strong coffee, baking potatoes...in fact anything I'm going to eat or drink.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: bobad
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 03:53 PM

Sauteeing anchovies, garlic and chili peppers on the way to becoming a puttanesca sauce.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: GUEST,Eliza
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 04:10 PM

I made a cake last Thursday for the Women's Institute stall. It contained fruit, ground almonds and rather a generous dollop of rum. While it was cooking, it did smell nice!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 04:21 PM

Spuds! On of my favs too. And, I can smell that cake! Mmmmmmmm! I'd be getting hungry if I hadn't inhaled a bowl and a half of my pea soup.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 04:27 PM

Strong, fresh coffee.

When I was pregnant, my husband and I walked into a kitchen where shrimp were boiling. I didn't stop- went straight on to the bathroom where I vomited. :)

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 04:48 PM

Yes yes yes to coffee, especially on a cold morning. Cinnamon is great too, as in the coffee is brewing and cinnamon toast - liberally sprinkled with cinnamon, sugar and butter, is in the oven.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Janie
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 05:32 PM

the smell of any good food roasting in the oven.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Charmion
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 05:34 PM

Win: Bread in the oven

Place: Bacon frying, with freshly ground coffee behind it

Show: A garlicky roast or stew

Honourable mention: Boiling strawberry jam -- actually one of the world's most ambrosial scents, but for some reason, it doesn't hang in the air. If it were more persistent, it would be the hands-down winner.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: pdq
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 05:51 PM

Pizza, freshly delivered.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 06:02 PM

Frying onions and/or garlic.

They have the added advantage creating a sumptuous aroma in a very short time so it smells like you've been busting your hump cooking for hours when, in actuality, you didn't even get started until you heard the SO's car pull into the driveway.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 07:18 PM

Charmion... "Win: Bread in the oven"

Yeah, that's a win. But it's closely contended by all of the others.

Gramps' beans with molasses every Saturday night. Although, oddly enough, his bread sucked because he didn't put any salt or sugar in it and he used a flour that was course. Then again, it went well with the beans poured on top of it. Maybe he DID know what he was doing?

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Leadfingers
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 07:18 PM

Fresh Coffee does it for me !

With Bacon a close second

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Ebbie
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 07:32 PM

Severe right turn here: Speaking of aromas, the only store I know of that smells just like it did when I was a kid is a drug store/pharmacy. The blend of candle, candy, boxes, whatever, is just the same and easily identifiable.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: GUEST,punkfolkrocker
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 07:47 PM

definitely one more vote for Bacon..



and.. roasting any meat with onions and garlic..

plus.. simmering mulled cider !!!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: frogprince
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 07:52 PM

Someone beat me to baking bread. Coffee is right up there for me, too.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: ranger1
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 08:03 PM

Charmion beat me to it, bread first, then bacon. Oh, and my gramma's home-made gingersnaps.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 08:17 PM

Oh dear me.... gingersnaps! And peanut butter cookies!

And Jonnycake (cornbread) in the oven and sausages frying after a day of ice fishing laying with our backs on the hall floor and our feet on the radiator trying to warm up.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: olddude
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 10:31 PM

Pie, any Pie at all

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: gnu
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 10:56 PM

Except Key Lime... wtf is that anyway? I have never even tasted it. Is it actually a pie?... or something the grocery stores made up?

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: SINSULL
Date: 16 Jul 11 - 11:02 PM

Apples and cinnamon. Sometimes I boil a cut Mac with cinnamon on the stove just to warm up the house.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 08:15 AM

Charmion said it all for me. But I'd add any cookies at all! When I was a child, my mother always baked cookies on the first day of school, timed so that they'd be just out of the oven as I walked in the door, the smell lingering in the air. I was so sorry not to be able to do that more than a few times for my own kids- except for once or twice, I was always at work on their first days of school!

So we'd all bake cookies in the afternoon!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Jack the Sailor
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 08:23 AM

Turkey with savory dressing mingled with cabbage, carrots, turnip and potato boiling on the stove on a chilly fall "Thanksgiving" day.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: maeve
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 08:40 AM

Key Lime Pie for gnu.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 08:59 AM

Emma just perfectly roasted a pork joint for our lunch; I was sitting upstairs in the study, which has a sort of balcony arrangement over the kitchen and dining-room: the smell that wafted up was transcendental. So ~~ bacon is good; so is a fresh egg frying in hot unsalted butter over a slow heat; and percolating coffee ~~

but I think the roasting joint has the edge for me.

Still, it's one of those "ask again next week and you'll probably get a different answer"

[like, maybe, toasting cheese on the welsh rabbit, esp when you've added some mustard powder & a dash of Lea & Perrins Worcestershire Sauce]

thingies, eh?

Yum

~Michael~

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Maryrrf
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 09:43 AM

Gnu the recipe Maeve linked to looks easy and delicious - if you haven't ever eaten Key Lime pie you should try making this. Key Lime pie is sooooo good - one of my favorites along with pumpkin, cherry, sweet potato, blackberry, apple, chocolate silk, pecan....the only kind of pie I'm not too fond of is lemon meringue.

Now there's a a great aroma - any kind of fruit pie or cobbler baking in the oven on a chilly day.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 09:46 AM

Food.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Musket
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 12:09 PM

Pulling the roasting tin of red hot goose fat out of the aga in order to put the parboiled spuds in.

The Illi beans tin as I pull the lid to fill the coffee machine.

The onions and garlic frying down whilst I decide what to cook with it.

In fact many cooking smells, although the dog's bean bag and therefore dog (a greyhound so doesn't move far) is next to the aga and the smells emanating from that particular corner of the kitchen can be described as memorable alright, but not quite what we are discussing here..

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: gnu
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 12:15 PM

"aga"... whassat?

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Musket
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 12:28 PM

Long enough oven to fit a gnu in, if you whack its arse with the supplied aga paddle.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 12:31 PM

It's a sort of patent fuel-burning kitchenrange·ovencooker/cum·waterheater&housewarmer; will also type your correspondence and program your computer if you talk to it nicely. BabySit your children & play for countrydancing...

{;~)

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: richd
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 12:36 PM

Curry.
Bread baking.
Lamb roasting with garlic and rosemary.
Really freh peas when you pop them.
Basil from the garden when you crush it- almost a 'cats pee' smell.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: MGM·Lion
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 12:42 PM

Which reminds me ~~ MINT: esp while a-chopping for sauce on the chopping-board...

& parsley sage rosemary & thyme ...

〠~~~sniffff

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Max Johnson
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 01:25 PM

As we speak I'm roasting a shoulder of free-range pork. It's been in the oven for 5 hours (at 160 deg) and I've just put it back after putting it on top of a pile of veg, garlic and bay leaves to roast for another hour. I'll use the veg for gravy.

It smells wonderful.

Otherwise bacon and coffee.

Also, call me a jessie, but I like to keep Sweet Pea flowers around during the summer.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: GUEST
Date: 17 Jul 11 - 09:23 PM

The aromas of pickle making, especially chou chou and Mustard pickles.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: GUEST,999
Date: 18 Jul 11 - 01:15 AM

"Also, call me a jessie, but . . .".

I've never heard that term before. What does it mean, Max?

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: mrdux
Date: 18 Jul 11 - 01:19 AM

garlic sauteing in a pan of butter and olive oil.

and another vote for bacon.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Gurney
Date: 18 Jul 11 - 02:53 AM

Guest 999, a jessie is a big girl's blouse.

OK then, a man who's a little bit effeminate. Or giving that impression.


To quote 'Auf Wiedersehen, Pet' "There's nothing get a man out of bed quicker than a\the smell of hot lard. That's bacon frying.

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 18 Jul 11 - 03:05 AM

another vote for garlic - 2 memories from decades back:

- sitting in a Chinese restaurant in the perfect spot so every time the kitchen door opened, GARLIC!!!!!!!!

- coming home one night & walking upstairs accompanied by the smell of roasting GARLIC!

Subject: RE: BS: Favourite kitchen aromas?
From: Ed T
Date: 18 Jul 11 - 08:45 AM

Pickles cooking and the "pickling spices".