Comments on: I Think I Need More Whole Cloves

By: MalagaCove

MalagaCove — Tue, 21 Jun 2011 12:43:40 +0000

Why not make pomanders with them? I did this when I found some cheap lemons last winter. All the recipes I’ve ever seen say to use orris root powder, which is imaginary as far as I’m concerned. I’ve never seen it for sale, have you?

Biggest problem I had with doing this was that it’s time consuming. Also, use an ice pick or skewer to predrill the holes where the cloves go. You can turn your kitchen excess into Christmas presents.

Instructions can be found here:

http://www.ehow.com/how_2130552_spicy-orange-pomander.html

When we first moved to New England, I didn’t know a soul and lived at the end of a 2,000 foot driveway in the midst of a 12 acre piece. And, since I’m a city kid and had never lived so far out before, it was bizarre.

I figured out one day that my “socialization” was apparently the supermarket. I’d come back from the market and went to put a box of cereal in our small closet pantry, and there was NO room.

I had 2 shelves full of boxes of cereal!!! (For 2 people?)

I started volunteering at the local library instead. It worked and I stopped having a cereal glut.

Judi

By: Laura Newton

Laura Newton — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 03:46:23 +0000

I”m with you except I have 5 small jars of tumeric??? It drives me crazy every time I look in my spice cupboard. I’m not sure why I bought them? Maybe for pickling?

By: DarleneS

DarleneS — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 21:33:59 +0000

That is one spice I don’t like either ground or whole.

By: Heather

Heather — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 05:34:22 +0000

You can put some of the cloves and some lemon slices in your tea when it’s brewing and make spiced tea. It’s extra yummy!

By: Camille Choate

Camille Choate — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 02:27:42 +0000

Meat tenderizer. I have massive amounts of meat tenderizer. I don’t even tenderize meat…that’s what is so crazy about the whole thing. It’s like I am shopping at the grocery store and my buggy just veers over to the meat tenderizer and it screams buy me buy me buy me!!!

By: Krista

Krista — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:51:48 +0000

Forgot to note a use for all your cloves. You need a few to make good apple cider. So start pressing apples. I think you have enough for a tanker truck of cider. (Don’t forget to add candied ginger!)

By: Granny Sue

Granny Sue — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:14:52 +0000

Oh boy. my husband opens every new jar of anything that comes in the house. So we have 3 open jars of peanut butter,three open containers of cottage cheese, 3 loaves of bread in use,4 open boxes of oatmeal. The only way I can curb him is to le everything run out before I buy more!

Those cloves: you definitely need to orange pomanders, Suzanne. I have photos and instructions to make simple ones on my blog at http://grannysu.blogspot.com/2007/12/clove-orange-pomanders-christmas.html There are more complicated versions online but this is how my English mother taught us to do it.

By: Krista

Krista — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 20:20:05 +0000

LOL! I just cleaned out my spice cupboard. My problem is I buy spices from the bulk bins. Because then it’s nice and fresh and I won’t waste 1/2 a bottle of spice when I don’t use it again for 4 years, right? Well, that would be true if I would just LABEL those little baggies when I get them home. I tried sniffing them. Is it Oregano? Thyme? Italian mix? Could it be Paprika? Cayenne? Cajun? Do I want to risk it? In the bin they all went. I will start afresh, yet again.

By: Olasz

Olasz — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 01:13:15 +0000

15 packets of whole black pepper? 400 g of paprica? 8 different kinds of flour (that bread I newer started to bake)? Makes you feel any better? Hope it does :cattail:

By: Traci in GA

Traci in GA — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:07:23 +0000

Vinegar. ? Regular white vinegar, 2 bottles of apple cider vinegar, red wine vinegar, white wine vinegar, seasoned rice vinegar, 2 bottles of basalmic vinegar (which I have finally figured out I don’t even like!)