[Sca-cooks] Re: Pets and Spices

[Kristina Pohl]

>From: Sue Clemenger <mooncat at in-tch.com>
>
>ROTFLMAO!
>I grew up with yellow labs (no, I wasn't raised by them! <g>), and they
>were serious garbage guts.  We had one dog insist he wanted *that*
>jalapeno--so my brother gave it to him, and he ate it.  Poor dog--I felt
>bad for him, but it was funny to watch him eating snow to make the burn
>go away.  Didn't slow him down a bit, though.
>--maire, who has pretty normal pets, if you don't count the cat that
>eats wool and silk, or his sister, Curye, who *requires* a corner of the
>cereal milk when I have cold cereal for breakfast (and that's the only
>people food any of the four of them eat, except maybe a teaspoon or so
>of meat tidbits when I'm cut things for a stir-fry)

I've been putting together an "exotic" spice kit for my parents Christmas 
present, and decided to dry my own chilis. My insane kitten got into them 
as they were cooling on the counter, and ate his way through 2 or 3 before 
I managed to pack them up. He *loved* them.

To keep this semi-on-topic, so far I have cinnamon sticks, dried chilis and 
lime leaves. What are some other, good spices available in Chinese and 
Indian markets that I could include? I've got a more extensive spice 
cabinet then they do, so I'm including taste tested recipes as well.

Kris

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