Further improvements

[gothick]

In further home improvement news, it was clearly a good idea for me to pick up these three spice racks in IKEA that screw onto the back of a cupboard door and save me lots of hunting when I need to find a particular herb or spice.

On the other hand, when I bought them I'd not envisaged the bit where I had to decant 18 varied herbs and spices from their current bottles into their new homes. I am now sneezing quite a lot, and tonight's dinner will taste of cinnamon and paprika no matter what I cook.

A-a-aaaa-choo!

Comments

[gothick-matt.livejournal.com]

Nope, none of that, luckily! I think I'd be wary of any herb that actually contained the word "foetid" in its name...

[mhoulden.livejournal.com]

It smells a bit like a cross between rotten garlic and raw sewage. I'm sure someone originally suggested it as a joke and no one wanted to question it.

[kaveypie.livejournal.com]

It's made from tree resin and does indeed smell quite foetid when raw, though it loses much of it's pungency when cooked. It's used a lot in Indian cooking because it reduces flatulence - and if you live on vegetables and pulses that is a Good Thing (TM)!
It can be omitted from most recipes without much impact, though it does add a little something, so my mum says.