pepperhead212
Master Chef
There is no way I could survive with just 5 spices! Or just 5 herbs! At one time I had 21 fresh herbs in the garden, and that's not even including the dried ones. And an Indian friend of mine told me that she doesn't have any friends that have as many spices as I have, but I told her that's because I am always trying foods from all the areas, and they are making mostly the food from their own cuisine.
While sometimes a recipe will call for a dozen or so spices, and some of those might be common spices, like whole cloves, cumin, and other things used in many cuisines, to make it easy to measure these things out, I made some boxes of the spices I use in the Indian food, one of the spices I use the most, another that I keep larger jars of, another even larger jars of, like cumin and coriander. And one more box for spice mixes.
Self explanatory by pepperhead212, on Flickr
Untitled by pepperhead212, on Flickr
Untitled by pepperhead212, on Flickr
The various spice mixes by pepperhead212, on Flickr
I also have over 30 varieties of dried peppers, mostly for Mexican, but the Thai peppers I use the most, in many types of foods. Plus the two drawers of spices, for everyday foods - easier to look down on the jars, than to find them in a cupboard, plus, they wouldn't fit.
While sometimes a recipe will call for a dozen or so spices, and some of those might be common spices, like whole cloves, cumin, and other things used in many cuisines, to make it easy to measure these things out, I made some boxes of the spices I use in the Indian food, one of the spices I use the most, another that I keep larger jars of, another even larger jars of, like cumin and coriander. And one more box for spice mixes.
Self explanatory by pepperhead212, on Flickr
Untitled by pepperhead212, on Flickr
Untitled by pepperhead212, on Flickr
The various spice mixes by pepperhead212, on Flickr
I also have over 30 varieties of dried peppers, mostly for Mexican, but the Thai peppers I use the most, in many types of foods. Plus the two drawers of spices, for everyday foods - easier to look down on the jars, than to find them in a cupboard, plus, they wouldn't fit.
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