K: Some Like it Hot

Some (like me) are learning how to like spicy food.  But, that doesn’t mean that we don’t use spices!  Back when we got married, my cousin got us a “Spicy Wedding” package, which included a lot of traditional wedding spices.  Ultimately, she got us hooked on mail-order spices.  We started out small – bulk orders of salt and pepper.  Monday night, however, we realized that we were running low on a lot of our spices, and that it made more sense to order them through Penzey’s rather than go to the supermarket.  The S/H costs were a bit higher than I would have liked, but we placed the order late Monday night, and they were waiting on our doorstep Wednesday afternoon.  That’s a pretty awesome turnaround time!

Anyways, here’s what’s spicing up our kitchen these days.  =]

In the jars (from left to right): cardamom, fennel seed, dill weed (ew, but D likes dill), nutmeg (perfect as it starts to get colder), and celery seed.

In bags (and yes, we will go through these): cumin seed, rosemary, white peppercorn (it’s going in our small salt shaker.  The big salt shaker was a Christmas gift, and we still have 2/3 to 3/4 of the salt from the original batch in the container), coriander, and oregano.

Let the delicious cooking begin!