I was cleaning out my kitchen cabinets this weekend in preparation for a Christmas cookie baking marathon and unearthed a whole slew of random pantry items. This is what happens when you have deep, ten-foot-high cabinets and don’t take inventory every three years or so. Along with the requisite collection of way-past-their-prime spices, here are some goodies I discovered:
- neon palm tree swizzle sticks
- instant spinach dip mix
- instant miso soup mix
- rancid sesame oil
- rancid Bull Head BBQ sauce
- chocolate-hazelnut-pistachio spread
- rock-hard muscovado sugar
- advocaat (Dutch egg liqueur we received as a wedding gift)
- nin jiom pei pa koa (a really tasty Chinese herbal cough syrup)
Don’t worry, friends: your holiday cookie gifts will not contain any of the above ingredients. Maybe the chocolate spread, but I’m thinking that’s too good to share.
wasabigelatine wants to know: What’s lurking in your kitchen cabinets?
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Nice swizzle sticks! Mine look like bamboo or have hibiscus flowers.
I’ve also got cocktail mermaids and monkeys
Ooh, I love the cocktail monkeys! I have a whole box of those, too.
Advocaat! I just bought some the other day, while looking for Rompope. =)
Rompope! I’ve never had it — do you guys have a recipe? (P.S. Rob Smith was the person who gave us the Advocaat :))
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