Best Smells

Lots of food smells great while it is cooking, but a few foodstuffs go beyond the routine and will beckon to me from a long distance.

You may have different smells that hit your buttons, but mine would be coffee, bacon cooking, and fresh bread coming out of the oven.

My wife adds that a frying onion calls out to her as well. What does it for you?

Boiled cabbage.

No, seriously, coffee is one that says "home" to me. Mine automatically brews before I get up, so the smell is always a good incentive.

Probably my favorite cooking smell is "Thanksgiving dinner" in the oven.
Second to that would probably be any braised meat dish.

I'm getting hungry!

Right now the house is filled with smell of the first cooking of a Virginia Ham that we brought back from a recent trip. Will be serving it to a crowd tomorrow night.

Sauteeing garlic.

Bacon

[David M. Bueker]

Bacon.

Fresh bread.

French Onion Soup.

Popcorn. D'oh!

Garlic and onions sauteing together in butter (pinch of salt and freshly grated black pepper).

Not to be a dittohead: Freshly baked apple pie.

BBQ from any distance, such as driving along and having to stop and get some.
More outside smells include good curry (hard to find) and sometimes the smell of a beloved greasy spoon.
In the house, coffee and bacons are givens, and too many more to list.

Meyer Lemon zest and juice

Meyer Lemon zest and juice

Ah, now we're moving from cooking smells to inherent aromas.

But, yeah.

Truffles.

Roasting turkey.

Sauteed mirepoix.

Melted Comte.

Indian masala cooking slowly in a pan.

Pasta with porcini cream sauce.

And last but not least... Meltingly hot Foie Gras fat drippings.

BBQ from any distance, such as driving along and having to stop and get some.

I'm with you there Shel. BBQ is my favorite food group.

Biryani spices.
Bacon.
Garlic while sauteeing
Cumin seeds in hot oil
In restaurants - fresh naan from a tandoor, or Szechuan lamb with cumin.

Beef braising in the oven
My slow cooked tri-tip in the oven
a sauté of onions and garlic
dicing fresh garlic
plain white vinegar (my housekeeper uses it on my tile and wood floors)
fresh lemon juice and zest
truffle oil
truffle salt
bbq smells coming from somewhere in the neighborhood
there's more, lots more

baking potatoes

pizza from a wood fired oven

Kentucky Fried Chicken

The smell of roasting lamb or beef.

The smell of a flowering lemon grove in the evening ,its intoxicating.

A vineyard in full bloom. Now that is intoxicating.

A vineyard in full bloom The smell of a flowering lemon grove

And exactly what recipe do you use for those guys?

Back to the original subject food smells before we start getting descriptions of the scents of sandalwood unguent rubbed on the thigh of a dusky maiden (not that there is anything wrong with that, but it should be in one of Hoke's threads).

A vineyard in full bloom The smell of a flowering lemon grove

And exactly what recipe do you use for those guys?

Back to the original subject food smells before we start getting descriptions of the scents of sandalwood unguent rubbed on the thigh of a dusky maiden (not that there is anything wrong with that, but it should be in one of Hoke's threads).

My thread will gladly accept dusky maidens and their unguent rubbed thighs, thank you very much. Non dusky too!

Fresh baked bread
desserts baking with cinnamon
bacon
coffee
Sunday gravy
truffles
BBQ

[Jenise]

You guys covered most of my bases:

#1: fresh brewed coffee AND bacon at the same time
#2: the Beverly Hills Cheese Store

And all these follow in any order:

a roasting prime rib
a panful of sauteeing onions and garlic to which the spices for an Indian curry have just been added
smoking pork ribs
baking cinnamon rolls