no not have pepper in the house?

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I just don't use it in cooking (use many other spices and herbs though).
I threw out a quite dusty packet 10years out of date recently.

relative is visiting and has offered to cook and asked for the pepper.

aibu not to buy any?

what are the bets that my relative will buy us a pepper shaker?

I use black pepper for European and North African dishes, white pepper for Asian dishes. For American (North or South) one can sub in chipotle or jalapeño (mild) chillis.
If you neither make nor eat any of those then YANBU.

We don't have pepper can't stand the stuff so have never bought any

White pepper is also very good on baked beans. Always have it on my beans on toast.

If I bought some pepper for someone who planned to use it in meals she wanted to cook for me, and she was then able to use it in my food, I would be going hungry because I loathe the taste of the stuff. As far as I am concerned it spoils anything it is in.

Forgot about beans on toast! Always use white pepper on mine too. On a fry up you need both. Cracked black pepper on the fried eggs and white on the baked beans.

Do you use turmeric? It’s best to pair it with black pepper to get the curcurmin.

If you need recipes using it, I can share one from my weekly rotation that uses 4 peppercorns as part of the spice blend 😋

I think I'm the only woman in the world who doesn't have any herbs and spices in the cupboards.
I do have salt and black pepper somewhere in them though.

I use white pepper in scrabbled eggs but normally I use crushed black pepper in everything, it's lovely on strawberries!

I just skip the onion part. My DH doesn’t eat onions and I don’t like touching/ cutting them. It’s no big deal.

But what do you have on your scrambled eggs?!

I don't and I also don't have pepper but I like really basic food

Salt, cheese and sometimes ketchup

I still use white pepper in a cheese sauce.
And I put lots of black pepper in/on loads of things. I’d be very peed off in someone else’s house if I was eating there and they didn’t have any.

If someone was cooking for me and my family and asked for a very cheap, simple ingredient to help with that, I’d pick one up with the shop.

But it’s not the same taste. I buy black peppercorn but white pepper already ground. White pepper is stronger. And I buy red peppercorns.

You must eat a very bland diet. Do you never eat out or have a takeaway?

Wow OP. Your are so quirky and different. You're just not like all us other girls.

@AGodawfulsmallaffair

where the hell from??

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/black-pepper-benefits

Costs about a quid, will make your friend happy and it’s good for you.

I don't use pepper, I don't like the taste. I use salt very sparingly but I have to be careful with it as I have high blood pressure.

I’m with you OP, I don’t use pepper on/in anything! We have it in the house because my husband likes it, but if I lived alone I wouldn’t buy it.

White pepper is black pepper with the rich aromatic outer layer removed by soaking rather than left in and dried to go black. It just adds heat, no other flavour.

I don’t care if it stops my béchamel or mash being nice and white, black pepper is marvellous. I love the smell of it.

Pasta with black pepper and cheese, cream of tomato soup - heck, any creamy soup, eggs of any kind, most sauces, spuds… black pepper is queen.

As for cooking without garlic or onions - those are offensive to Lord Krishna, the nice singing bunch with tambourines told me as they pressed a free vegan cookbook into my hand.

I knew in that moment that becoming a Hare Krishna was not for me. 😉

😆

£5 for a decent one in Ikea, £3 odd for big jar of black peppercorns in Tesco. We couldn't live without plenty of freshly ground black pepper on just about everything. DD and DS too.

I think you are weird.
£1 to keep your visitors happy.
Who cares if you use it.
very weird.