No mention of garlic?

Any of the spices in five spice powder, or said powder.

Soy sauce.

Tomatoes.

Hot peppers. Whether it's jalapeno, cayenne, habanero, Thai chilis, ghost pepper, or even the milder ones like banana peppers, they're all great. :D

plus one for eggs.

Smoked paprika

@Niello Garlic without question, then tomato.

1. Noodles, especially spaghetti.
2. Eggplants, especially grilled.
3. Cheese, especially aged or blue mold cheeses.

Well, I love butter, y'all.

Preserved lemon. It's pickled, fermented lemon. Discovered it in Moroccan dishes, and it is heavenly.

love

Meat, specifically beef.

For baking, cinnamon.

For meals, I find the key to good vegetarian food is tomatoes.

How has no one said potatoes, or rice yet? They are both so incredibly versatile.

Personally, it’s potato. A large amount of cuisines use them and in wildly different ways sometimes.

There are so many things I could say, but if I'm being totally honest, white rice. I could eat it plain, with butter, with so many different sauces, under other food, mixed into other food, at any meal, as a snack, even multiple times a day. I never get tired of it.

Sriracha. I put it on pretty much anything

Lately, deep fried capers.

Cardamon is highly underrated

Artichoke similarly underrated

Sun dried tomatoes ... everyone knows this is S tier

I could probably put chilly powder on anything but my wife would hate me.

Favorite in terms of "food with X in it," or favorite in terms of adding it? Because if it's the first one, it turns out I love me some damn onions something fierce. If it's just "which ingredient do you enjoy adding," eggs every time. So satisfying.

Chives and smoked parprika❗

Really hard, but possibly paprika or maybe garlic?

Butternut squash and spinach are also popular.

Any cheese. Stilton, feta or Stinky Bishop.

Any kind of pork, beef, or lamb fat. Using it as a replacement for butter or oils to cook or prepare ingredients brings a whole new depth of flavor to a dish!

Butter

Ground black pepper