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I made chicken jahlfrezi for dinner and cauliflower and of course rice. It is delicious though perhaps a bit undersalted. The recipe called for mace, which you don't see called for very often nowadays. I have mace, and so didn't have to sub in nutmeg. (I also have nutmeg, obviously.) How much of a hassle is it to grind mace blades, do you think? I usually don't want to bother with the nuisance of grating nutmeg, but if mace is easier to handle it would of course be better to have whole mace rather than ground, especially as I use it so infrequently. Of course, what I really need to do one day is find and print out a conversion chart between whole and pre-ground spices. Recipes never give me a really good clue as to how much whole I need to grind to get the same amount.
Also, I really need some bigger skillets. Do not let me forget this.
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I made chicken jahlfrezi for dinner and cauliflower and of course rice. It is delicious though perhaps a bit undersalted. The recipe called for mace, which you don't see called for very often nowadays. I have mace, and so didn't have to sub in nutmeg. (I also have nutmeg, obviously.) How much of a hassle is it to grind mace blades, do you think? I usually don't want to bother with the nuisance of grating nutmeg, but if mace is easier to handle it would of course be better to have whole mace rather than ground, especially as I use it so infrequently. Of course, what I really need to do one day is find and print out a conversion chart between whole and pre-ground spices. Recipes never give me a really good clue as to how much whole I need to grind to get the same amount.
Also, I really need some bigger skillets. Do not let me forget this.
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How Thai Fruit Carving Went From Royal Craft to Internet Sensation
These trippy images reveal the colorful inner lives of bones
Cuddle Stray Dogs and Cats on Cairo’s Shelter Tour
Yarn made from human skin could soon be stitching up your wounds
Sand dunes can ‘communicate’ with each other
4 Alaska children missing in blizzard conditions are found alive (I didn't expect the happy ending! The youngest is two, for crying out loud.)
Two decades after vanishing, her daughter suddenly showed up with children, a new identity — and speaking Spanish
What I Learned About Life at a Company That Deals in Dead Bodies
Graduates Of Historically Black Colleges May Be Paying More For Loans: Watchdog Group
School tip lines were meant to stop shootings, but uncovered a teen suicide crisis
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Report: At least 138 sent from US to El Salvador were killed
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Date: 2020-02-06 04:07 am (UTC)glad the kids in the blizzard survived, anyway!
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Date: 2020-03-04 09:24 pm (UTC)We used to have a really big one, but now we do not.
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Date: 2020-04-07 01:07 am (UTC)spices
Date: 2020-02-06 11:19 am (UTC)On grating nutmeg: a few years ago we bought one of those hand-held, all-metal, open-hole rasps, originally made for woodworking but now all the rage among foodies, and it works extremely well: if I grate a bit more than I need, I put it in another jar labeled "ground nutmeg" and use it the next time, but other than that, we basically always use fresh-ground now. And the rasp just goes in the dishwasher.
For allspice, cumin, coriander, and cubeb, we tend to use a mortar and pestle: again, the freshly-ground stuff has so much more aroma that it's worth the grinding. I think I usually measure out about half again as much whole spice as the recipe calls for ground.
Haven't figured out how to grind ginger and get a yield greater than about 25%.
Re: spices
Date: 2020-02-06 03:01 pm (UTC)Grating ginger is easy enough, but the real trouble comes when I try to grind long pepper.
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Date: 2020-02-06 03:25 pm (UTC)Re: spices
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Date: 2020-02-06 03:23 pm (UTC)Needs to be prefaced with “Math Teachers Hate Him!” or some such, for the full clickbait effect.
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