2025-07-29 12:37

Me, thinking about how to season today’s fjord trout: Cumin and turmeric and maybe Kashmiri chili powder or hot smoked paprika? One of these days I’ll cook fish without cumin, but today is not that day.

Jackie: Why would you cook anything without cumin? I mean, maybe something… Maybe brownies?

Me: I dunno. Brownies with cumin sound awesome. Maybe spaghetti sauce?

Jackie: I dunno. Spaghetti sauce with cumin sounds pretty darned good.

So, I guess we’re just going to go on putting cumin in everything, until we think of something it doesn’t go in.

Last week’s salmon, with a honey-mustard-ginger-soy glaze, which did not, in fact, include cumin