On Wednesday, September 17, 2014 4:02:04 AM UTC-10, notbob wrote:
> On 2014-09-17, dsi1 > wrote:
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> > of those things that when you finally have the perfect use for it, you
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> > can't find it!
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> heh heh......
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> I've got a couple of those, one ginger and one lemon grass.
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> Surprisingly, they work pretty darn good. Not only extremely handy,
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> but the only way I can find lemon grass in any form, out here in the
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> boonies. They also last a long time. My lemon grass is over one yr
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> old and has not spoiled. I may buy a few more tubed herbs, they
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> becoming more popular/available with the sprmkts in our area.
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> I will point out that pickled ginger (like for sushi) works better
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> than this tubed ginger for retaining a ginger flavor in cooked
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> dishes. I bought the sushi ginger after forgetting I had the tubed
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> ginger in the fridge.
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> nb

Personally, I'd like to have green herbs in paste form or in oil. It's too much hassle for me to keep fresh herbs around. Most of the time they get thrown away. The pickled ginger goes great with sushi, or rather, between sushis.