This is funny: i used to hate any cumin as a kid, but when we went to Czech republic in 1993, i had to get used to it, because it was everywhere! I mean, of course, i was not vegan then, moreover, i had to eat what i was given (and Czech cuisine is sometimes very hard to digest). Cumin was in restaurant foods that they had ordered for our group for the whole week (or more), but(!) even when i managed to buy some food in grocers that i met on my way,- everything contained cumin too! I remember it distinctively - eating sauerkraut and bread with tons of cumin. One day i found myself in the bakery with plenty of varieties of bread, and i didn't find any bread without cumin! Eventually, in a week, i got used to it, because i needed to survive. I even brought a loaf of that bread home. My parents were spitting, as it was a ridiculous thing for soviet people - bread with cumin.And then, as an adult, if i accidentally saw a pail of sauerkraut with cumin, i was getting it, because i found some kind of pleasure in this taste. But still, cumin is not a thing that i would like to eat on a daily basis.
Are you sure that it's not caraway ?
The latter is the spice that you find in many Eastern European dishes.I remember having caraway bread that comes from Poland and it's also popular in other countries nearby.
It doesn't add so much density as flaxseed flour, so i also add flaxseed flour to it sometimes. I don't know if any sane person would make a scary black "mesivo" of his soup, but i do it willingly and i like it (especially, because it helps my digestion, +it's very satiating). (Plus, they say, it's very beneficial, and blah, blah, blah). I often add cayenne salsa to a plate of this soup (which is mostly made of beans or grains, haha), so i don't feel the strange taste of cumin flour so distinctively. Btw, tonight i'm going to make this kind of black soup (the time has come,- i've run out of any soup a long time ago), but this time it will be a pea soup.
