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Friday, July 9, 2010

Cooking with Cardamom

An Exotic Spice that Should Be in Everyone's Pantry

In all of my cooking adventures up until this year, I have always left cardamom out of any recipe that called for it. Part of the reason was that I didn't know much about this exotic spice or what it would do to my cooking efforts. Part was its expense. Cardamom is the second most expensive spice in the world next to saffron and I couldn't justify paying close to thirty dollars a pound. The pre-ground cardamom was cheaper but I knew that it would turn out to be like any other spice- inferior and bland in comparison to its whole form. 
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