Despite it being an amateurish cliché, blaming your mother and all, I have to insist because it’s completely that that anything less than Julia Child’s coq au vin with brown-braised baby onions and sautéed mushrooms on Tuesday night would be inedible, cruel beyond comparison. You see, she is the one who after reading the post about with , bought me , which is akin to putting a loaded, I don’t know — egg beater? in my infatuated hands. I am but 75 pages into the book and I’m ready (and not for the first time) to book my one-way ticket. If nothing else, I plan to hold my breath or at least cut off bacon-and-meat kitchen dallies until husband sends me to the Cordon Bleu.
By smittenkitchen ·
From Open Recipes · 46 ingredients
Why it works: Clove and thyme match in chemistry and in kitchens. They rank in the top 2% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 4,108 recipes. Both carry cuminaldehyde, which smells Spicy, cumin. The science ↓
Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs
Swap the clove
How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (butter, chicken, pepper, red wine, tomato, garlic, thyme):
Rosemaryfits better
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Clovethe original
Fit is the average pairing score against butter, chicken, pepper, red wine, tomato, garlic, thyme. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.
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