[Magdalen] Heather Cook

[Sally Davies]

Agreed there, Sib! Also delicious with beetroot hummus, giving a lovely
earthy based to it.

Not something I'd like to find in a sweet dish, though we do sometimes put
chocolate into our chili.

Cardamom, OTOH...often used in Indian ice cream and other desserts, but
very carefully. I think the idea is to boil the whole pod, or maybe the
scraped out seeds, with the milk and then strain it out. If found in e.g. a
curry, it's definitely an item to be shifted to the side of the plate!

Sally D

On Saturday, November 7, 2015, Sibyl Smirl <polycarpa3 at ckt.net> wrote:

> "Not familiar to American palates?"  To me, cumin is what makes chili
> taste like chili.
>
>
> On 11/6/15 9:49 PM, Jim Guthrie wrote:
>
>> I get the impression that although Cumin is an old spice, it was not
>> familiar to
>> most American palates.
>>
>> When Albert and I started cooking together after he came from Cuba, he was
>> absolutely insistent that rice HAD to have enough Cumin in it to make it
>> yellow.I searched supermarkets large and small, specialty delis, bodegas
>> and the
>> rest searching for Cumin.
>>
>> We were in NYC, and I was introducing Albert to Greenwich Village, and
>> saw a
>> Gourmet Specialty Store on Bleeker street. I went in and asked, mostly
>> on a lark
>> but also to prove to Albert I was working on it.
>>
>> Lo and behold,they had a bunch of tiny containers of Cumin on the shelf.
>> Albert
>> scooped up the guy's entire stock-- maybe about 15 of these little
>> containers
>> that held maybe two tablespoons each.
>>
>> And we lived happily ever after.
>>
>> I have seem Cumin in most supermarket spice depts during the past 20
>> years or
>> so, seeming that it has become quite popular in cooling.
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jim
>>
>> PS I inherited Coriander from my grandmother's rack, but didn't start
>> using it until making garam masala for those Indian-spiced recipes and a
>> few semi-inventions. I especially like it in a fried eggplant casserole
>> I make from time to time
>>
>>
>>
>
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