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Happiness in the Kitchen

I LOVE working and puttering around in my kitchen.  I just re-arranged my spice cabinet and filled some washed-n-saved jars with newly bought spices and some of my favorite spice mixes that I whip up.  At one of my favorite bulk stores (mentioned in a post below) the spices and herbs come in sealed plastic bags, so I've gotten in the habit of saving and washing out jars - mustard jars, salsa jars, mushroom jars, etc. - filling them with the spices/herbs and then labeling them.  I save the larger jars for my favorite spice blends.  2 of my favorites are:

All-Round Seasoning

1 c. dried parsley

1/2 c. dried dill weed

1/4 c. dried chives

1/2 c. dried oregano

1/4 c. dried thyme

~ You can mix this in cream cheese for a dip or spread.

~ I use this on just about any kind of meat, in pasta sauces, soups, herb bread mixes, butter...

Fresh Veggie Seasoning

8 Tb. dried parsley

4 Tb. dried chives

1 ts. dried marjoram

1 ts. dried oregano

1 ts. dried thyme

1. ts. dried basil

1/2 ts. celery seed

~ This is GREAT sprinkled on any sort of veggie:  tomatoes, zucchini, cucumbers; or veggies fixed in your wok.

~ If you add this to oil/vinegar or a vinaigarette dressing...awesome!

Just the other night, it was a little too far away from that last pay-check and the family wanted pasta.  Well...I had no sauce!  Now, I KNOW that MANY of you are SO FAR ahead of me in my culinary skills, but I was delighted that the  pasta sauce I made up was a HIT!! 

Here's what I used (and looks like I'll use again!):

2 cans of Red Gold crushed tomatoes

a few VERY liberal shakes of garlic powder

a few VERY liberal shakes of my All-Round Seasoning (above)

and several freshly sliced mushrooms and sliced black olives

~Nothin' to it, and they all loved it!  I was VERY excited!

Like I tell my girls...It's the little things in life that mean so much!

Blessings from Ohio, Kim Wolf<><

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Yaay!!

09:18, 2006-Feb-21 .. Posted by midwesthomestead

I'm very excited about your thrown-together-imaginative-wonderfully-delicious pasta sauce!! I wondered recently if I could do that and you've shown tis quite easy! Isnt it wonderful when something like that works out?!?
Enjoyed your blog today!

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