Your 'recepie' cracks me up. I love how it's like 'assemble a bunch of hard-to-get stuff from really specific places OH WAIT BUT MAKE SURE TO GET STANDARD AMERICAN SPICE RACK FENNEL'.
PS I forgot to tell you my 'tandoori paneer' story where I ordered it from an Indian restaurant and it was like, these little painted bricks or something. My best friend commented that it looked like machine-extruded protein, as if robots had made standardized food for people.
It was super delicious and I thanked my robot overlords for designing it for me!
This reminds me of my first experience with log-style smoked gouda! I had recently resumed being a vegetarian and also had just moved from Hawaii and could not quite convince myself that it was not some kind of processed meat product :)
I think of those things as all being pretty easy to get, actually! In Olympia I can get good ghee and paneer from like 3 different places, and ajinomoto and Maggi from perhaps a dozen. Bragg's is actually hard-ish to find outside of the co-ops here these days! The Shan spice mix is available in packs of 6 from Amazon, so I think of that, too, as being easy to get.
I would happily recommend a less ridiculous source of fennel if I knew of a better one! It's actually the single hardest thing for me to find; only the Cash and Carry here reliably sells the right thing. Every single other brand of fennel I've tried has either all been anisey or has been about 50/50 anisey and sausagey, which is not a good thing.
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It was super delicious and I thanked my robot overlords for designing it for me!
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I would happily recommend a less ridiculous source of fennel if I knew of a better one! It's actually the single hardest thing for me to find; only the Cash and Carry here reliably sells the right thing. Every single other brand of fennel I've tried has either all been anisey or has been about 50/50 anisey and sausagey, which is not a good thing.
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