Bad recipe! No biscuit!

[mollyringle]

...Or at least, badly cooked biscuits

Comments

[neadods]

I've just been ranting at my journal over a book on cookoffs, but that's because I though the author was a something-else-off.

Recipes that use a tiny amount of some really obscure ingredient annoy me. What do I do with the rest of the kumquat?

[laleonaenojada]

Yes! I use one tsp of adobo sauce from a can of chipotle chiles in adobo sauce about once a month. The rest of the can will not keep until the next time I am likely to use it. What do I do with it?

[mollyringle]

Actually, that one I can answer. Put the rest of the chilies in a ziploc freezer bag, and freeze them. Small amounts slice easily off the frozen block when you need a little bit more. I've kept frozen chipotles for, like, a year that way. :)

[mollyringle]

Oh yes, I hear you on that. I've ended up with many rarely-used spices that way. I may need the garam masala, the tarragon, or the turmeric once or twice a year, but does that really justify buying the whole bottle of it?

[neadods]

I've got 3-year-old garam masala. There comes a point when my attitude becomes "if I won't use it again, I won't use it at all" and either cook around it or not do that recipe.