Cinnamon.

Cinnamon is good in moussaka. Just a hint, don't overdo it.

Yes, of course it's veggie and it's also from the Weightwatchers' veggie cookbook. I'll see if I can scan it.

Had to make a smoothie with cinnamon in after reading this thread.

I look forward to reading it, anno. Might have to wait until you are here to cook it for me! Is it vegetarian?

Geatnan, I have just the right recipe for you. Something Moroccan!

Ah, something savoury, I will try that.

Sprinkle a little cinnamon over scrambled eggs on crumbly brown bread.

I posted on my other thread about being adventurous with food, that I made a delicious meal today with chicken thighs marinated in olive oil, cinnamon, ginger and garlic. I cooked them in the oven on a bed of potatoes, onions, carrots and cauliflower. I also put a teaspoonful of cinnamon in my porridge this morning.
I wouldn't like the sugar/cinnamon idea because I really dislike anything sweet, but I will certainly be using more spices in future. I hadn't realised how bland my food was.

I love cinnamon and sugar with French toast (or eggy bread or pain perdu depending on where you come from!) Spread a mixture of sugar and cinnamon on a plate and put the lightly fried eggy bread on top, press it down to get the mixture into the toast, then turn it over and press it into the other side. Wonderful! Try cinnamon sprinkled over Weetabix with hot milk, or added to porridge.
I always have one jar on the go and another spare.

Anno, I will expect you to make us a delicious vegetarian stew with various spices!

Chuck a cinnamon stick in your stew, Greatnan instead of ground cinnamon - it's more subtle. Oh and take it out before you eat the stew! Fresh ginger, grated, is also quite different from the ground variety. Yummy. I adore crystallised ginger but daren't have it in the house. I can easily demolish a jar of it in a short time.

Some years ago I had a Greek friend and she made tea ( normal builder's style) with cinnamon in it. Delicious. X

Grannyknot.... you've reminded me.... a famous estalishment in Bath offers their buns with the topping you describe! That or jam and cream.... what a choice. I think they do savoury versions too but I head straight for the sweet stuff

I put a teaspoon in my porridge this morning and it was delicious. I am going to have a baked apple tonight, with sultanas and cinnamon. I don't eat cakes or biscuits.Tomorrow, I will make big pan of chicken stew and I will use both ginger and cinnamon. I am getting there! Thanks for your suggestions.

I too enjoy 'spicy' foods but do not like the heat. So when making them I just leave out the chillies but still use the spices. I dry roast the spices whole and then grind them in a pestle, only takes a couple of mins and I know what went into the mix!

For each teaspoon of cinnamon have four teaspoons of honey. Stir well and use a teaspoon of this mixture for persistent coughs. Only use for three days at three teaspoons a day. You can add a little lemon juice to taste.

Spicy food isn't necessarily hot food. I try to avoid chilli type spices but cumin, coriander and cinnamon aren't hot. I love the flavour of saffron.

I hasten to add I know I can simply buy powdered turmeric but the capsules are not expensive at H&B, and makes it easier to take.

Greatnan when I was a child (one parent family - mum - and 3 children in SA in the 1950s) - we were always very well fed despite there not being much money, and one of my favourite childhood desserts (and I wouldn't be surprised if it was one my mother devised herself) were light, fluffy boiled dumplings swimming in a cinnamon and sugar and butter sauce (way before yellow margarine came on to the market, we always had butter somehow).

On another note, husband and I started on turmeric tablets earlier this year because he had been told would help for his stiff finger joints and lo and behold they are much better. I take them just because! (preventative). . Sometimes I open the capsules and make a tea of turmeric and fresh ginger. I'm pretty sure I have seen some cinnamon flavoured tea on the shelves - cinnamon + other stuff.

The problem is that I am not a great lover of spicy food - I prefer Mediterranean cooking, with herbs and garlic. I found the food in Egypt a bit too spicy, but I have too good an appetite to leave food! I was on full board basis, and it included four course dinners - I did enjoy some of the vegetable tarts and the soup was delicious, but I found some of the meat dishes a bit like tinned dog food! And the desserts were far too sweet, so it was ice cream every night.

You can probably use a little ground cinnamon in any of the dishes you prepare with ground ginger as a flavouring as they go well together. For a truly Middle Eastern/North African flavour, add the third of the warm spices - ground cumin. Very tasty with with lamb or chicken.

I don't eat pies but I love baked apples with raisins and I think I could use some cinnamon in that.
I could be vegetarian as I love fruit, vegetables, salads, fish, cheese, eggs - so I wouldn't like to be a vegan. When anno stays with me, I find it good to have to think outside my usual meals as she is vegetarian.
I have started using powdered ginger in my savoury meals too.
I never have colds, but I put that down to living such an isolated life and living in a totally unpolluted atmosphere. I wonder if the altitude has anything to do with it - my flat is at 1100 metres - about the height of Snowdon - and I walk much higher most days.

Galen now i am really hungry!

I use it a lot as well. Very nice in a Moroccan tagine along with pickled lemons!

Apple pie has to have cinnamon in it. One of the few things that I'm good at cooking wise is apple pie which I make in the most unhealthy way using white flour made with lard .