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SPICE IT UP!

Photo: Calum Lewis Unsplash
This week WF’s taking a deep dive into our spice drawers….and it is a good thing we did. We discovered treasures that we really should not be holding on to.

Once you get a spice in your home, you have it forever. Women never throw out spices. The Egyptians were buried with their spices. I know which one I’m taking with me when I go.
– Erma Bombeck

We thought that the spice drawer would be a very quick story – just alphabetize our existing spices and clear out the duplicates. But, then Erma Bombeck’s quote gave us pause and we decided that perhaps we needed a little research into exactly how long these spices last.

Every chef’s kitchen should have a well stocked spice drawer.

Spices come from the root, bark or seeds of a plant. Herbs come from the leaves of a plant [source:  Thekitchn ]. The list here pertains to spices only.

Shelf life:
Source: Healthline.com
So….looks like our Saffron has to go!!
Tidying up was very satisfying in the end – and we are in love with the end result:

A few spicy finds: