Phil Landmeier @shuttersparks@qoto.org

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@olavf Funny you should mention racks. I have two large racks, both full, with more just on the counter. Plus I have a lazy susan turntable full of spices and extracts.

I remember as a teen seeing large collections of spices and thinking it was silly. How many spices can you possibly need? My mother didn't use that many and her food was fine. And here I am. Hahaha.

One spice my mother used was cardamom, which I still haven't mastered the use of. She made a delicious dip that included cardamom.

So many foods and flavors, so little time.

@olavf I don't know. I'll have to re-do some digging and see if I can find that article that named the spice mix. The problem is that every vendor of spices 1200 years ago had their own blend so there's no way today to replicate it exactly.

However, they did list the ingredients commonly found in that mix. I seem to remember something called "long pepper" as one of the ingredients. Long pepper is apparently not used or rarely used today. But it was quite a list, maybe 10 to 15 different spices, that went into this mix.

@opendna @emilymbender Yup. That's how it should be. It's the same in engineering. Your design doesn't have to actually fall down and kill people for you to lose your PE accreditation.

@olavf Oh, and thanks for the link. I'll get to investigating on Sunday. I'm heading to bed ahead of two back-to-back 12-hour shifts of cooking on Friday and Saturday.

@olavf Hmm, fascinating. You mention three spices I am not familiar with. I'll be doing some reading.

I make my own hummus, which is very popular with my foodie friends, and have done some reading about it. Since humans have been making it for 7,000(?) years it's of interest to me. The oldest recipe for it dates from around 800CE and calls for a "spice" that I can't remember. But it turns out this spice is not a single spice but a spice mixture, and each spice maker/vendor had his own recipe for making it. We have an idea what was in it but we'll never know exactly. :-(

@luckytran Yes, and not looking like a "weak liberal".

The Covid masking fiasco brought out all the worst tough guy responses, at least here in West Virginia. Why? Because they were scared shitless.

@smellsofbikes Well, there sure is. Good luck with that.

@olavf What I find surprising is how many of the different smaller spice jars have a mouth too small to accept a measuring teaspoon (5 ml). Who thought that was a good idea? So I find myself buying larger jars just for the larger mouth.

Some items like chili powder, cumin, and oregano I use in enough quantity to get the large jars that will fit a tablespoon measure (15 ml).

@BlackAzizAnansi Yup. So now he's fighting a state criminal case and an unrelated federal criminal case.

Drought Affects the Whole Country
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#drought #water #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

@emilymbender Seems like this lawyer has the bad practice of proceeding from false assumptions. This flaw can get you into huge trouble in fields where there is rock-hard accountability like engineering.

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