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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Spice of Life



Life should be lived in Technicolor!
If you haven’t noticed, I wear bright clothes, and flashy clothes. I like to be noticed. Sure, I wear black sometimes, but what a boring color that is. There are entire countries where women walk around shrouded in all black, can you imagine how depressing the place must be?
Seeing bright colors brightens my day too, I think we all smile when we see something that makes our eyes pop; flowers, clothes, houses, hair!
Just like bright colors I like bright flavors; food should not be boring either!
I have written about my spices before and I wanted to share this as I just received a big order and thought you might like to see what I am enjoying, and I have a coupon code that you can use to get 30% off an order!
I just got:
Merguez sausage rub
Smoked spanish Chorizo rub
Sichimi Togarashi (Japanese  7 spice)
Asian smoked tea rub


Curry Vindaloo


Bland food is boring to me. I love the flavor of vegetables  in season, but chicken tastes like chicken year round, same with turkey, beef and fish. So I like to season them with these spices and bake, roast or grill them. Its quite economical to get them in these plastic bags, and if you use a lot, you can get a pound for $15.00 or less for most! David loves the merguez and chorizo on his meats, Cooper loves the Sichimi Togarashi for his ramen.

I put them into old jars and usually just cut the label off and tape it on unless I haven't emptied the bag yet. I suppose I could be Susie-homemaker and buy pretty jars and decorate them, but I am a far cry from Martha Stewart (except maybe when she did her stint in jail) and I am not gonna waste money on fancy jars when old jam jars work fine.


I use the chorizo and merguez on turkey, chicken and beef. The sichimi togarashi on shrimp, the vindaloo curry on fish, the Asian smoked tea on poultry, oh and there is some wild smoked black salt I like on eggs. The crunch of the large crystals is amazing. Their white truffle salt is even more sublime.


Just writing about this makes me think everyone will picture me protecting my bowl of food, and try to take it away and I bite your hand off!

So, the good folks at Whole Spice are having a sale, you can place an order and receive 30% off the entire order through June 19, 2012!! Act fast, that's only in a few days. Enter coupon code "Spice" at checkout, and there is free shipping on orders over $75.00.

Spice up your life!

2 comments:

  1. man they look awesome !! i wish they were in Aussie. I'll have to google those blends and see if I can get them local. thanks for sharing.
    ps your old photo you posted gives me motivaton - thx kristy! i just got a book by Lesley Maxwell and she reminds me of you. she is mid 50's, aussie, has around 20 titles to her name including Miss US figure in new york at the age of 53. you may know of her?

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  2. Hi Amanda-
    Long time no chat- I hope you are well! They have the ingredients on the site- so just act as if you are shopping and you will see the list of spices in the blends! I haven't heard of Lesley Maxwell, so I will check her out, she sounds like my kinda gal! I will definitely enjoy reading about her accomplishments.

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