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My mother used this very stuff to make a marinade to slather on the ham while it was cooking last Christmas, with great success. Rather than honey-roasted ham, it was ginger-roasted ham! Yum.

Wee crustless quiches!

I've been drinking a lot of Speakeasy's White Lightning now that the weather's warmed up. With lemon. always with lemon.

I know this isn't what you are looking for exactly but...I bet one of your carnivorous friends would appreciate a gift of bacon grease (I know I would!)

As a little girl my father taught me a trick for picking crispy apples. I've never met anyone else who does this, but it's always seemed to work for me! You knock on or flick the apple with the back of your finger or knuckle. I use a 'flicking' motion (as if I were trying to annoy an older sibling by flicking them on the forehead). The higher pitched the sound, the crispier the apple will be. Lower pitched apples are softer and mealier inside.

Cooked fish. I loves me some raw fish, but as soon as it is even slightly warmed it starts to smell like...well...rotting fish. Seriously, same smell. I think there are wires crossed in my brain somewhere because try as I might, I CANNOT get over that association. Blech.

Oh good grief people. This is terribly immature and passive aggressive. If I caught someone using those on me instead of ASKING me not to recline, I'd take them from them and proceed to recline as far back as possible.

Just as a sort of friendly FYI to those long suffering tall passengers, I know those coach seats SUCK for you. But I am quite short and while I don't need the extra leg room, my short stature makes the curve of the seat back excruciating to my back. If I don't recline (and I don't if the person behind me is tall), the seat back forces me into a hunched position and I have back problems for days.

Those seats suck for everyone. It's not being "hippie" to suggest that people grow the **** up and communicate with the people around them like adults.

I was born and raised in earthquake country, and this makes me VERY nervous...

That article was heartbreaking. I have no words.

Ok, guys, telling people to just go spend more on spices isn't the best advice. I know, I know, high end spices ARE better, but some of us cannot afford that! To those people who actually suggested things like finding an authentic recipe or toasting your dried spices beforehand, thank you.

My advice is like many others; taste and reseason...ALOT. I made the saddest pot of roasted veggie and lentil stew the other night, or so I thought, and all I had to do to fix it was throw in an extra pinch of salt and some vinegar. The flavors of all the (inexpensive, I am BROKE people) spices I'd put in but couldn't taste suddenly came bursting forth.