spice
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The Best Ways to Use Up Old Spices
If you’re anything like me, you’ve collected an extensive supply of spices, many of which you’ve used exactly once. Then one day, you look at your spice rack and notice a thick layer of dust on those jars, and wonder: Do spices go bad?
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Please Clean Your Spice Jars
Whether you’re making a simple green salad with a tangy vinaigrette or a large, roasted piece of meat with an aromatic, crusty bark, you will, at some point, grab a jar or two from your spice rack. Afterwards, while cleaning up, you will return the jars to their home, be it a highly-organised, alphabetized spice…
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The Easiest Ways to Make a Fancy Dipping Oil
The combination of fat and bread is an easy, low-cost crowd-pleaser. You can either spread the fat on the bread or dip the bread into the fat. Both are good options. Dipping bread into a high-quality olive oil is, by itself, a pleasant experience. A good olive oil can taste herbal, fruity, or peppery, but…
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The Easiest Way to Test (and Use Up) Your Old Spices
January is usually a month of purging, consolidating, and cleaning, but this January seems particularly suited to it. Omicron is infecting nearly everyone I know, and the weather is terrible — there isn’t much reason to leave the house; might as well clean it.