[Sca-cooks] Potrero seige contest

[lilinah at earthlink.net]

Bj Jane Tremaine wrote:
>  The small black spice seed was galangal and we also had a compot of root
>  vegtables in cider.

I wasn't there so i don't know what the black seeds were (wild guess, 
nigella), but there is not a doubt in the world that they were NOT 
galangal.

Galangal is a rhizome closely related to ginger. It looks a lot like 
ginger, but the "fingers" are more cylindrical and the whole rhizome 
is much harder. Not a seed at all. In fact, the plant does not make 
seeds. It is propagated by breaking up the hands and planting the 
fingers.
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Urtatim (that's err-tah-TEEM)
the persona formerly known as Anahita