condiments

Sauces, dressings, marinades and pastes used as condiment for other dishes.

Nigella has a pungent, peppery flavor, similar to a bitter  pepper. Widely used in Indian cuisines, where is known as kalonji or wild onion  seed, in curry mixtures, vegetable dishes, pickles and chutneys.
Piquant, strong, distinctive and highly aromatic flavor. Europeans and Western style cooks use it in meat and fish stews, salads, salad dressings, other sauces and with vegetables. An essential ingredient in South Eastern Asia and Indian cooking to flavor all kinds of curries and other spiced dishes; it also has an important place in Japanese and Chinese cuisine.
Thyme is one of the aromatic herbs usually in the bouquet garni used to flavor broths, stocks and innumerable dishes. Rhyme has been used probably fom the beginning of history.