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Janet

In article >,
says...
>
> On 2021-05-22 6:10 p.m., dsi1 wrote:
> > On Saturday, May 22, 2021 at 10:47:17 AM UTC-10, cshenk wrote:
> >> I have been remiss in grocery shopping. I am out of all but
> >> Carrots, Potatoes, Bell Peppers, Mushrooms, and onions.
> >>
> >> Plotting a beef stew. Kinda matches what I have here. Lots of
> >> spices, and other types of staples.
> >>
> >> Any special ideas you like? Too late to add other veggies but will
> >> develop recipe as I go.
> >
> > I once had the idea to have a clove flavored stew. I made it and it
> > turned out exactly as I envisioned it. What I didn't foresee was the
> > negative reaction to it.
>
> You should have asked me because as soon as I read about your making it
> I sort of cringed.

Me too.

> That being said, it is the primary spice in a French
> Canadian tortierre.

..... where it goes perfectly with the pork. But then cloves stuck in
the fat, are great in ham. Cloves also go with apple which also goes
with pork ; must be some flavour-combining magic going on there.

Cloves and pig good. Cloves and cow bad.
Apple and pig good. Apple and beef bad.

Janet UK