Spices, an update

[azurelunatic]

So when Belovedest and I went to help rescue Ev from the woes of bookshelfing (which I may not have mentioned here, oops), I brought along the spices.

It was something like 24 little jars of dried spice, and 12 little bottles of various liquid flavors, all labeled.

The combination of Not Cooking and a holdover philosophy of minimalism/broke-ism that frowns on making a large-commitment purchase without being certain of it made Ev's spice cupboard rather bare. (She did have salt, pepper, Italian herbs, onion, garlic, and I think red pepper.)

She'd gotten to the point of cooking stuff with recipes selected by her nutritionist, so I figured it was time to introduce spices that she probably didn't have, so her nutritionist could suggest a wider variety of possibilities. So over a few days I filled the jars out of our spice collection. I called the project Weird White People Spices, even though some of them might not be standard for a white people kitchen. I figured this would be the best way to let her try them without fully committing. If she liked them, she could get more; if she didn't like them, she wouldn't have to worry about having an entire container to figure out what to do with.

Despite me doing some of the bottle-filling while on video chat with her, Ev didn't guess what the surprise was. She was delighted!

Every now and then she tells me, again, that her nutritionist was so excited and thrilled. So many spices to play with!!!!

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Bookshelfing -- Ev was putting together a 4x4 Kallax, and broke one of the pegs off in the hole. So Belovedest and I geared up, went over, pliered out one half the peg and drilled out the other, presented a spare peg or two, and helped get the thing together and upright. Masks on the whole time. Then we headed out. It was the most social interaction we'd had in months. What else is a parent for, right? :)

Comments

[alexseanchai]

😺

[kore]

Aww what a lovely thoughtful gift!

[azurelunatic]

Her nutritionist is just SO PLEASED. I said when I delivered them that they were for both her and the nutritionist. I'm allowed to offer foods but her nutritionist gets to make Definite Recommendations and boss her around into stretching out of her comfort zone.

I think partly her nutritionist is pleased because it means she has a family member who isn't complete trash where food is concerned (she has a nutritionist because her birth mom bullied her into eating disorders).

[jesse_the_k]

Thank you for being a better mom! Now with cumin.

[senmut]

Y'all are good people.,

[azurelunatic]

<3

[vass]

Excellent Fishparenting.

I was about to say "wow, 24 sounds like a lot of different spices," but then I started listing off what spices I have, counting "in the fridge" and "in liquid form" and "growing in pots" as well as the powders and dry seeds, and turns out that's about exactly it.

[azurelunatic]

We have a lot of spices, compounded by at least 1/4, if not more, of them being in Very Large Containers. The full-size overhead cabinet next to the cooktop is The Spice Cabinet, and it's pretty much full except for the topmost shelf, which has some miscellaneous liquids and then other infrequently-used objects. There's overflow.

[azurelunatic]

https://twitter.com/azurelunatic/status/1314843458754936832?s=19

Includes pictures.
Note that this combines the spice collections of 3 ADHD-ers, two of whom are Together.

[ephemera]

That sounds like a lovely and thoughtful gift - it can be difficult enough to decide if you might like a spice enough to spend money on a whole jar or tin without being able to try it in your own cooking when you don't have Food Issues - what a great way to take some of the stress out of it.