Your best food discovery of 2014

[CogitOIOIO]

What food, ingredient, dish, preparation method etc have you discovered this year that has changed the way you eat? It's been humble 'cooking bacon' (Sainsbury) in our house. No idea how I missed it previously.

[IDismyname]

Chorizo added to anything. Except custard.

Knorr stock pot thingys. Especially the herb one.

[Notonaschoolnight]

This stuff is the bomb makes soups, chillis, cottage pies easy

[Fieldday]

The Make Pack for making desserts. Helps me look like a domestic goddess for very little effort.

[Gremlingirl]

Cooking bacon is a cheap pack of mixed bacon bits, streaky and back, smoked and unsmoked from the supermarket or some butchers. If you chop it up and cook it until it's brown all over, you can blitz it in the food processor and add some salt to make bacon salt which is the food of the gods. Amazing on eggs, pasta, chips, popcorn.... Anything really (not custard, as per up thread!)

[hugoagogo]

Marinaded tofu, thai 7 spice and udon noodles I am obsessed! Off to google black pepper tofu!

[BeginnersLuck]

Agree, black pepper tofu is amazing! And Ottolenghi's kosheri too (and that fact that it freezes).
I've discovered how easy it is to sprout green lentils (or puy, or any other kind). No need to buy fancy sprouting seeds from healthfood shops - just any old lentils that you'd buy for cooking with from the supermarket. Shove in an empty jamjar, rinse twice a day with water and bingo! Delicious sprouted seeds 3-4 days later.
And ridged salt and vinegar Kettle crisps. Divine.

[DustBunnyFarmer]

Slow cooked steak chilli with smoked paprika served with homemade cheese, chilli and sweetcorn cornbread, sour cream and rough chopped fresh coriander.

Also cheap gammons boiled in the slow cooker whilst we are out at work. It collapses like pulled pork. We serve it with mash, parsley sauce & veggies. Great hearty winter grub.

[FriteFuaite]

Quark!! I use it in so many different recipes, and it's low fat!

[Allalonenow]

Frozen spinach, it comes in small cubes, ideal for putting into fish chowder or fish pie for some colour, and good in curries too. Also frozen ginger is great for stir frys.

Long life tapas, never be without a devil on horseback again and the packs of dim-sum to steam in the microwave are genius!

If your children like sardines, mine used to love sardines as part of the pizza topping, I used to split them lengthways so they warmed through quickly.

And I must mention balsamic pearls, two or three dropped into a dry martini with a silverskin onion

[TyneTeas]

My favourite sites for foodie things are here : )

t.co/YrNkhWDEgf

[hifi]

Frozen garlic And frozen chilli peppers from the Asian section in Tescos. Less waste with garlic bulbs and fresh chillies. They also do frozen ginger cubes.

[hifi]

Frozen mash pellets, add butter and milk, lush.

[JamNan]

venison burgers from Tesco
(aka Bambi burgers in our house)

[coolaschmoola]

Truffle brie..... It is divine!

[mentaltodolist]

Frozen blueberries. In cava.

[MERLYPUSSEDOFF]

Frozen parathas and chapattis in Asda frozen section. Frozen garlic cubes.

[Meplusyouequals4]

Pork and cranberry sausages and sausage meat off QVC

[Pixa]

Slimming World's Katsu Curry. It's a favourite in our house.