Your favorite Seasoning?

[nick2004]

Hey everyone, Just curious what your favorite seasoning for steak, chicken, hamburgers, and pork is. Do you have just 1 seasoning thats good enough to put on it alone?

[StPeteBBQ]

One seasoning? Or one seasoning mix?

If you're talking about just one seasoning, I guess it would have to be salt. Or pepper? hmmmm...

If you're talking about a seasoning mix, I don't have a particular favorite. If you mean a rub, I'm partial to Texas BBQ Rub #2. Works on pork, poultry, beef.

[nick2004]

Yeah like a seasoning mix, I'll half to try that texas bbq rub can you buy it anywhere?

[Menace]

I really like Paul Prudhomme's Blackened Redfish Magic - I find it addicting and use it on most of the limited things I cook.

:mouthwate

[FATZ]

http://www.texasbbqrub.com

Great stuff. I brought home 10 lbs from Q'fest. I love it now.

[sharky]

Yeah like a seasoning mix, I'll half to try that texas bbq rub can you buy it anywhere?

http://www.texasbbqrub.com

[sharky]

I personally like coarse ground pepper, sea salt and olive oil.

To jazz it up even more I melt some herbed butter or blue cheeze over it.

I also use the Durkee montreal steak seasoning from time to time!

[Deuce]

Salt, pepper, onion powder, garlic powder and olive oil. I use those as a base and add from there if I feel like it.

[nick2004]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys, Does the Texasbbqrub have a bbq taste like would you put it on steaks and everything? Deuce, You put Olive oil on everything? What does it add to the flavor and you use that mix on everything? Thanks

[StPeteBBQ]

I wouldn't recommend Texas BBQ Rub for steak, unless you like a sweet taste to your steak. Texas BBQ Rub has sugar in it, #1 much more so than #2. However, if you're talking about smokin' a brisket, the #2 rub was made specifically for that.

[Deuce]

I have started rubbing the meat/chicken/pork with olive oil then I sprinkle on the salt, pepper, onion & garlic powder. This is my base and I add to it depending on what it is that I am cooking. For instance with ribs I would add brown sugar, paprika, white pepper, cayenne pepper, etc.
For steaks I don't add anything.
For fajitas I add cumin, chili powder, etc.
Don't be afraid to try different things.
Happy grilling!

[fatboy]

For a base seasoning for any kind of meat or vegetable, McCormick Season All works wonders!

For making BBQ Rubs, I tend to only like the ones I make myself. A little of this alot of that, you get to make it the way you like it! I will use store bought rubs (TXBBQ, Stubbs, etc) or seasonings if I get too lazy to make my own, but I always end up tweaking them to my liking.

I found a tremendous (IMO) seasoning for chuck roasts on the smoker. 2 parts Montreal Steak Seasoning, 1 part turbinado sugar. Fantastic! I haven't tried it on steaks yet, but I will once I fire up the gasser!

[SeanB]

I use my wife's creole seasoning on just about everything. Her recipe is pretty close to close to Emeril's with about half the salt. Other than that, I tend to just mix up my own by throwing some stuff together.

I got a bunch of seasoning mixes from Jon Ashton over the summer and the only one I really liked using right out of the bottle was the Key Lime Jerk, everything else I mixed two or three of them together or added some creole seasoning. ;) Fish with some Mango Majic and a little creole seasoning is fantastic!


http://www.thenoflaresquare.com/products.htm - scroll down to the spices.

[fatboy]

I forgot about Tony Cachere's Creole Seasoning! Another wonderful all purpose seasoning!

[SeanB]

Yep Tony's is good too...We used to use Tony's until my wife started watching what she eats a lot more. Plus it is cheaper just to make it.

We bought a first edition of his cookbook to get the recipe. He took it out of the cookbook after the first edition. The recipe calls for Accent (msg), but I am not sure if they still use it in the commercial version.