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Wednesday, January 12, 2005

The spice of life!

I've been browsing The Spice Shop for months and have finally placed an order. I have a vast assortment of herbs and spices in my kitchen, and make my own blends, so I purchased what is not readily available to me as well as the most exotic.

Here are a few of the blends I purchased:

Moroccan Raz El Hanout
This elaborate spice blend contains every spice that I have. At the moment about 49-57 depending. From Rose petals to Grains of Paradise; everything is in there. It is used for Tagines be it meat, fish or vegetable. Kind of sweet with aromatic fragrances this will turn you into a master chef even if you dont have a tagine pot. Just use it in a stew.


Kitchen Pepper
This very old English traditional spice mix is used for stews, soups, bean dishes, spiced red cabbage, or root vegetables. Based on pepper, ginger, anise, coriander and cloves it adds a rich warm winter flavour to the dishes.


Scappi's Spice mix "Early European"
Bartolomeo Scappi , pope Pius V 's personal cook was one of the most influential chefs in the early Italian cookery scene. Based on ginger, nutmegs, saffron, grains of paradise, cloves and a few more this mix is so aromatic it goes with almost anything; meat, vegetables or puddings.



I can't wait! I make my own Za'atar which I've posted the recipe for on The Witch's Kitchen. I gotta tell you Rue's Za'atar Chicken is one hell of a crowd pleaser!

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