Blends such as chili powder, curry powder, garlic salt, and other seasoned salts are traditionally sold pre-made by grocers, and sometimes baking blends such as pumpkin pie spice are also available. These spice mixes are also easily made by the home cook for later use.

Ground Spices. Some spices are only ever used in their ground format, such as Paprika, Asafoetida and Amchoor. However, many others such as Turmeric, Nutmeg, Cloves, Cardamom and Fenugreek are available to buy as whole spices or ground spices.

In cooking, a sauce is a liquid, cream, or semi-solid food, served on or used in preparing other foods. Most sauces are not normally consumed by themselves; they add flavor, moisture, and visual appeal to a dish. Sauce is a French word taken from the Latin salsa, meaning salted. ... Sauces need a liquid component.

Tea is an aromatic beverage commonly prepared by pouring hot or boiling water over cured leaves of the Camellia sinensis, an evergreen shrub (bush) native to East Asia. After water, it is the most widely consumed drink in the world. ... Tea has a stimulating effect in humans primarily due to its caffeine content.