Favorite All Purpose Seasoning

[Dave_Butner]

I grew up in Los Angeles, so all my life I’ve been a loyal customer who never strayed far from Lawrys.

But recently I discovered another local product. Great seasonings made in Tacoma, WA. Johnnies.

Johnnys contains MSG and Lawrys does not. But the ingredients in Johnnys are much simpler (and no sugar):

Sea salt, MSG, Pepper, Paprika, Garlic, Spices.

Lawrys ingredients:

Salt, sugar, spices (including paprika and tumeric), onion, cornstarch, garlic, tricalcium phosphate, natural flavor, paprika oleoresin.

What other great all purpose seasonings are you using?

[Chris_Freemott]

Old Bay
Penzy’s makes some nice blends that I’ve worked through - especially a chicago pork blend called Krakow, IIRC.
Good friend and board member, George Hejna, can’t do MSG so I’ve removed it from my stable of spices. Though Johnny’s Dock is a nice product for fish.

[Tyler_Rico]

[Randy_Bowman]

I’ve ranted about this before. 35 years ago Lawry’s seasoned salt contained MSG. There was nothing, I mean nothing on the market that could compare to that seasoning. I still use Lawry’s seasoned salt and seasoned pepper, but they just aren’t as good as they were when they had MSG. Several months ago, I e-mailed Lawry’s and asked if they would tell me how much MSG to add to a 12 ounce bottle to duplicate their original recipe. They replied that they didn’t have that information.

I’m thinking I’ll look for some Johnny’s here in Napa.

WTF I found some:

Original Johnny’s Seasoning Salt 1lb Jar (03-0429)
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[Paul_Bacino]

Lately…

I have been messing around with Penzeys: Arizona Dreaming- ground ancho, onion, garlic, paprika, citric acid, lemon peel, chipolte pepper, red pepper, jalapeno, cocoa, and natural smoke seasoning

and I like Montreal seasoning too

This is labeled salt free . Yeah I tweek it a bit!!

[Andrew_Morris]

I like this on a wide range of things:

http://shopping.nosoc.com/browseproducts/21-oz-Joe’s-Stuff.HTML

It works well even of stuff that is not blackened, like homefries, etc.

The hot version is good too.

[Bob_Wood]

Salt.

[Craig_G]

What he said. But other than salt and pepper, I’ve become very fond of shichimi, a red pepper-based Japanese spice mix.

[Benjamin_Sullivan_DNA]

[Brett_Johnson]

Lawry’s is great!

Also a fan of:

Great on pretty much any meat, creole dishes, and on grilled corn cob with lime juice.

[richard_ritter]

Montreal seasoning

[bretrooks]

@Tyler Rico

+1, and the reduced salt version as well. We do keep one or two other seasoning blends around, but we use these more than anything else.

[George_Hejna]

@Chris Freemott

Old Bay
Penzy’s makes some nice blends that I’ve worked through - especially a chicago pork blend called Krakow, IIRC.
Good friend and board member, George Hejna, can’t do MSG so I’ve removed it from my stable of spices. Though Johnny’s Dock is a nice product for fish.

I love you.

George

[Mike_Maguire]

@Dave Butner

I grew up in Los Angeles, so all my life I’ve been a loyal customer who never strayed far from Lawrys.

But recently I discovered another local product. Great seasonings made in Tacoma, WA. Johnnies.

Johnnys contains MSG and Lawrys does not. But the ingredients in Johnnys are much simpler (and no sugar):

Sea salt, MSG, Pepper, Paprika, Garlic, Spices.

Lawrys ingredients:

Salt, sugar, spices (including paprika and tumeric), onion, cornstarch, garlic, tricalcium phosphate, natural flavor, paprika oleoresin.

What other great all purpose seasonings are you using?

Dave,
Johnnys also makes a no added MSG seasoning salt.I used to use it on everything, but nowadays only on popcorn

[Joe_Perry]

Ooo, I remember this amazing pepper grinder (I think it was under $70) that had chocolate, red pepper and black peppercorns in it. I wish that I had some more of that!

Old Bay

Cooking Sherry!

That’s about it.

[Brian_G_r_a_f_s_t_r_o_m]

second-favorite:

It’s not actually hot, although they’d like you to believe it is. Goes great on potatoes of all kinds, vegetables, pork, chicken … almost anything.

currently, cannot recall the name of my favorite, as I had to get rid of all my seasonings before moving a few months ago. Will post again if it pops into my brain.

ok … after more searching, I think this might be my favorite (if it is, then they’ve changed their packaging):

OK, now my day can go on. The Everglades Heat seasoning I posted above is my favorite, and they have changed their packaging. This is the packaging I’m used to:

[awilliamson4]

Crazy Jane’s Mixed up Salt and Mixed up Pepper

[Paul_Bacino]

@George Hejna

@Chris Freemott

Old Bay
Penzy’s makes some nice blends that I’ve worked through - especially a chicago pork blend called Krakow, IIRC.
Good friend and board member, George Hejna, can’t do MSG so I’ve removed it from my stable of spices. Though Johnny’s Dock is a nice product for fish.

I love you.

George

This is so touching

[Paul_H_Potter]

Penzy’s Shallot Pepper.

http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/p-penzeysshallotpepp.html

[J_a_y_H_a_c_k]

I hate to be a curmudgeon, but why not make your own? I grind fresh white and red peppercorns with cumin seeds and then blend in paprika, powdered onion and garlic, a bit of dried thyme, and some fresh rosemary when I am using it right away. I adjust between them based upon what I am using it for.