Did you know dill can replace nutmeg?

[Duer 157099]

I now have two confirmations of this fact.

I don't like nutmeg, except in one cookie recipe that I make (Christmas cookies, old family recipe).

I discovered one year that if I put dill instead of nutmeg into quiche, that I actually liked the quiche a whole lot more.

Then tonight, I made a creamed spinach, and even though the recipe didn't call for nutmeg, I know that oftentimes a little pinch is added to spinach dishes. Well, I reasoned, maybe this will also do well with dill?

So, I added dill and it was REALLY good!

Anybody else have ideas where dill can be used where nutmeg normally is? (well, except cookies and sweets, of course)

I also add dill to egg salad, although that's not a nutmeg type dish (to my knowledge anyway)

Just FYI and FY experimentation

[grasswire]

1. hey, some recipes use BOTH

I'm thinking of those hamburger stroganoff recipes where the sour creamy sauce has both dill weed and grated nutmeg.

[kestrel91316]

2. I didn't read your entire post at the start, and almost lost my dinner

trying to imagine my pumpkin pie with dill in place of the nutmeg, lol!

[Duer 157099]

4. LOL! Well, don't knock it until you try it..

No, maybe not pumpkin pie, although who knows? That's how new taste sensations are discovered, by trying the unthinkable.

you go first :)

[mike_c]

3. that is just wrong....

I love nutmeg.

[Duer 157099]

5. But how do you feel about dill?

I don't know why I have issues with nutmeg, maybe traces back to many many years ago when I heard it could induce mind altering states if taken in quantity -- I can't recall if I tried it or not, but if I did, I bet that's where I learned to dislike it. :)