Cindy's Recipes and WritingsPickling Spice is a blend used in pickling various foods. It also is used to season dishes. Corned beef and cabbage is a dish that benefits from added pickling spice. Pickling spice ingredients (usually whole …
Oregano Know Your Herbs and Spices
Oregano is a big part of the Mediterranean diet that has proven health benefits. This herb is high in antioxidants and easy to digest. You will find this herb in a Italian dishes as a …
Nutmeg Know Your Herbs and Spices
Nutmeg is a classic spice used in cooking as well as baking. Mace and nutmeg come from the same aromatic evergreen tree found in Asia and Indonesia. Mace is the outer coating of the nutmeg …
Mexican Mole Seasoning Know Your Herbs and Spices
Mexican Mole Seasoning Sometimes people hear the word Mole (pronounced Mo Lay) and think chocolate. In reality, chocolate has little to do with it and if chocolate flavor is desired cacao is added at the end …
Marjoram Know Your Herbs and Spices
Marjoram is a member of the oregano family, which includes basil and mint. Its hard to believe those herbs can be related. That is where the similarity ends. Marjoram also called sweet marjoram …
Mace Know Your Herbs and Spices
Mace is not a spice all its own. It actually is part of a nutmeg kernel. The waxy outer coating on the nutmeg seed kernel is …
Long Pepper Know Your Herbs and Spices
Long pepper is harvested from the catkins of a plant known as Pippali. Some dishes use the entire catkin finely ground, other use just the …
Know Your Herbs and Spices Jamaican Jerk Seasoning
Sweet Jerk Heat Jamaican Jerk Seasoning is described as “sweet heat”. Black and red peppers are combined with warm spices to draw out the best the Islands have to offer. In jerk cooking a …
Garam Masala Know Your Herbs and Spices #DailyDishMagazine
Garam Masala means “Hot Spice” hot being a warm spice like ginger, cinnamon or nutmeg. Garam Masala is a blend of spices popular in Indian Cuisine. Most garam masala blends contain cardamom, cinnamon, cloves and …
Cayenne Know Your Herbs and Spices
Cayenne Pepper Know Your Herbs and Spices Powdered cayenne pepper that you buy in the spice section is actually a blend of several chilies ground together. Cayenne peppers are medium in size about 2 to …