Gifts Cooking Mixes Recipes

"The aromatic scent of holidays and Mum's home baking, mixed spice is an essential jar on the spice rack. Mixed spice is a blend of sweet spices traditionally used in English cooking to provide a warming backnote. This typically English spice mixture can be purchased ready-mixed, but I prefer to make my own, as I find it difficult to find in France..."

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Ingredients: cinnamon sticks, cloves...

"Nice and spicy, just the way I like it. How about you?"

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Ingredients: curry powder, ground allspice...

"I like to make my own curry paste. This way I know that the compliments I get for my curries are entirely up to myself. The good thing is that the paste keeps for a couple of weeks in the fridge and can be frozen. The paste makes wonderful presents too. I give them away together with coconut milk, some kaffir lime leaves (I have my own plant), and..."

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Ingredients: ground cumin, red paprika...

"Arabic 7 spice (bokharat) is mixture of spices you can buy ready at any Middle Eastern grocery. If you don't have one where you live, you can make using the following."

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Ingredients: ground cumin, ground cardamom...

"This was adapted from Aliza Green from Field Guide to Herbs & Spices. A little different from the recipes already here. Traditionally, this seasoning is used for steamed crabs, but is now used for fish, potato salad, potatoes, and other vegetables. This would also make a great gift, along with some recipes! Enjoy!"

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Ingredients: ground cardamom, ground allspice...

"My mom's favorite hot chocolate mix. A little different from other mixes as this one has a box of instant chocolate pudding."

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Ingredients: cocoa powder, confectioners' sugar...

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Ingredients: garlic powder, onion powder...

"If you like more heat then increase the cayenne to suit taste and If you are using this rub for pork shoulder or Boston butt I would recommend to use coarse ground black pepper and for ribs use the fine ground black pepper, make certain to rub the tarragon, rosemary and thyme herbs between fingers to release the flavor."

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Ingredients: cumin, dried thyme...

"Shoarma is so popular in Holland that you might forget it is from the Middle East! When we lived abroad I really missed it and tried to copy the spice mix that you can buy here in the shops. There are many makes and blends in the shops, they all taste different, now try the homemade mix! Note that there is no salt in the mix so do not forget to add..."

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Ingredients: ground cumin, ground cayenne pepper...

"A nice clone of a favourite sauce that is served in British chip shops."

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Ingredients: pepper, curry powder...

"I use this on about everything. A friend gave me this as a gift a few years ago, she gave me the recipe and this year it is on my list for food gifts!"

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Ingredients: dry mustard, garlic salt...