spices

Small Bites

Bacon Candied Apple Spiced Nuts Recipe

Bacon finds its new place in a mixed nuts recipe

Sep 6, 2012 1:01 pm

Photo: Gabi Porter

These are addictive! Sweet, salty, spicy, crunchy, chewy. This recipe makes a good-sized bowl for a crowd — once baked, they keep for a few days at room temperature and actually improve after a day or two on the counter.

Vegetarian

Sumac-Spiced Eggplant Schnitzel Recipe

Pay close attention as eggplant is "schnitzeled"

Sep 5, 2012 2:01 pm

Eggplants lend themselves to all manner of flavors and textures, and just to prove it, here they are “shnitzeled” — coated and fried in a delicate mix of breadcrumbs, cheese and herbs. Read on to learn the recipe for eggplant schnitzel, with a secret ingredient to make it extra-tangy and flavorful.

What To Eat: Lunch

Let's Talk Mustard

Admit it, mustard's bite hurts so good

Dec 23, 2011 12:31 pm

This cannot be said of many condiments: some things are not worth eating without mustard. I say this only because it's true. If you don't like mustard on your ballpark dog, there is something awry with your taste buds, and maybe brain.

What To Eat: Lunch

Currywurst: Not The Worst

Cut-up hot dogs with ketchup is back in action

Dec 13, 2011 12:31 pm

I'd seen currywurst stands in every city I visited. Every airport, too. I know curry, and I (now) know wurst, so surely the combination of the two would be something worth eating. It's not that I was wrong. It's that I wasn't exactly right.

Thanksgiving

Orange-Cardamom Cranberry Sauce Recipe

One whole spice creates a whole new cranberry sauce

Nov 22, 2011 10:01 am

Photo: slgckgc on Flickr

I make orange-cardamom cranberry sauce every Thanksgiving without fail. Growing up around a kitchen packed with jars and bags of whole spices, I learned what all the pods, seeds, berries and sticks smelled and tasted like.

Cooler Condiments

Scorpion Spice Mix

An earthy spice blend with authentic sting

Oct 21, 2011 4:46 pm

Photo: anathea on Flickr

We love a good spice blend, especially when it's a secret ingredient used in a hot Mexican restaurant like Foxwoods Casino's Scorpion Bar. We had to do a little bit of prodding to get the ingredients for this, and we're glad we prodded. With two varieties of paprika, fennel seed, brown sugar and ancho chile powder, this mix can work...

What To Eat: Lunch

Biryani: Citizen of the World

A rice dish with a thousand global variations

Aug 24, 2011 11:31 am

Photo: hafizismail.com on Flickr

Not that I Wikipedia every dish I pick for lunch, but the entry for biryani gave me a little shock. There are 21 individual sections for the most widely consumed kinds of this Arab/South Asian rice dish, to say nothing of the 7 "See also: Biryani variants" directly below those. Seems like a certain region of the world likes fragrant, spiced rice with tasty stuff...

Hot Fives

5 Exotic Spices Worth Hunting For

You've never tried these spices, but you should

Aug 16, 2011 10:30 am

Illustration: David Navas

Peter Bahlawanian, owner of Spice Station’s two Los Angeles locations and a just-opened Montreal store, offered up his 5 Essential Spices on Food Republic last week. This time around, the spice expert digs deep in the cupboards to bring out...