[Sca-cooks] Re: Industrial-sized bags of rice

[Olwen the Odd]

>         In one of my local pharmacy/convenience food/everything else 
>stores,
>which is run by Indians of the fareastern variety, I recently saw 25 pound
>bags of Domino sugar.  They also had ungrown garam marsala spice mix, 
>'kewar'
>water (people on the EK list say that it's another flower flavoring, like 
>rose)
>and mayonaise (ie quart) sized jars of garlic paste and ginger paste.  Now
>that's industrial strength!
>      What would you cook with ginger paste, anyway?
>             Devra

Ginger paste is really good in marinading beef sliced for jerky (I brush it 
on the slices then toss in a marinade).  I also use it in some of the 
stir-fry things I do.  I really like ginger and garlic so the pastes really 
are nice and less work intensive than starting with the real thing.

Olwen

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