i once had this recipe, but when i looked in my
recipe file, it was GONE!!

does anyone have the recipe for glenda's spicy noodles?
i think it had peanutbutter and maybe sesame oil o seeds in it.
i cannot believe that it is lost.

if you have it, could you help me out?
i loved that stuff.

thanks

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If nobody has Glenda's recipe, I've got a recipe from my parents that sounds
similar....

i was reading through old items.. danr mentioned making it
in 1993.. but didnt post the recipe.

oh, yes orinoco, please post that recipe too.

For a Grex pot luck or Andre dinner size batch:

1 cup natural style peanut butter, smooth or crunchy (make sure no sugar added)
1/2 cup soy sauce
1 1/2 cup chicken broth or water
about a teaspoon each of granulated garlic, powdered ginger and Lan Chi chili
paste with garlic (this was originally a Weight Watchers recipe and they used
red pepper instead of the Lan Chi, we like the flavor of the Lan Chi much
better, you can get it at any Asian market)

Mix all of the above and bring to a boil, boil until thicken, add a teaspoon or
two of a good quality sesame oil and chill.  Cook 2 lbs spaghetti or other such
noodle and chill.  To serve mix the sauce and noodles with a bunch of green
onions sliced.

oh yes!
that is the recipe i wanted.

thank you thank you thank you
<kisses glenda's feet>
smooch kiss kiss smooch smooch

Well, for what it's worth....
1/2" peeled fresh ginger
8 cloves garlic
1 t. chili paste
1/2 cup peanup butter
1/4 cup soy sause
3 1/2 T sugar
3 1/2 T Worcestershire sauce
3 T toasted sesame oil
5 T chicken stock or water.

Combine ginger and garlic in food processor on "chop"
Add rest of ingredients.  Process until smooth.

i just made it.. yumy.
i used regular fresh minced garlic.

what is "granulated garlic"?
i couldnt seem to find it.

Powdered garlic.  Garlic salt without the salt.

I _think_ it's the same thing that's sometimes sold as "garlic powder," but
I may be wrong.

Granulated garlic is similar to powdered garlic, just not as finely ground.
I use fresh minced garlic when I have it on hand and I have time to mince it.
I usually get the demand for noodles on very short notice.

You can buy jars of minced garlic that is
quite a good substitute for fresh-minced in
a pinch.  The reason we stopped using it is
that unless you keep the jar and lid very,
very clean, it'll stink up your fridge like
you wouldn't believe.  We always keep garlic
cloves handy and have an easy-to-use and
-clean garlic crusher.  There's nothing like
the real thing.

yeah, i used to keep lots of garlic on hand too..
i did find those little jars of minced, and chopped garlic.
i use them frequently.


as an aside, how/where do you keep your spices?
i have a plastic basket that just barely fits in one of my cupboard
shelves, and it is filled to overflowing with spice jars.

hubby wants to organize them into some sort of 'lazy-susan' platform.
he just doesnt seem to understand that i have too many jars
for one, or even two of those platforms.
well, maybe he does, but is just beng stubborn.
i like the basket because it has sides on it, and keeps them
relatively in one place.

We have one of thosy lazy susan things on a cupboard
shelf with lots of spices on it.  Not only do the
ones toward the center of the turntable tend to get
forgotten, but also if you spin it too vigorously
you risk getting a can of coriander in the chops.
I've yet to see a spice rack big enough for all the
spices we use.  Plus, a spice rack is a *thing* that
you have to find a spot for somewhere.  Every once
in a while I have the urge to throw everything away
and start from scratch again, but then sanity returns.
I'd love to hear how everyone here organized their
spices.

My parents have three lazy susans full of spices, and a fourth with various
other cooking supplies that come in little containers.  My mom had a huge
burst of organizational energy a year or two ago and alphabetized them, so
now each lazy susan has a certain chunk of the alphabet.  No solution to the
coriander/chops problem, though.

My spices jars fill two cupboard shelves, so I have to dig through them
whenever I want one.  I use 2 sizes of jars, each size is on its own shelf
and I usually know which quadrant of the shelf to start the hunt in.  One of
these years I am going to make a stand alone, enclosed rack for them.

Hmm.  I think we have a problem here for some
imaginative inventor to solve.

How about something like one of those revolving tie racks?

I keep 50 glass jars of dry herbs and spices in a roughly 6 by 8 array on the
lowest shelf in my above-counter cabinet, usually the one over the non-stove
work surface.  

The jars are uniform size and shape, and are arranged alphabetically.  After
more than 30 years of this arrangement, used in more than 15 kitchens, I can
usually find things by blind location, rather than looking at labels or
contents.  If I pull up the wrong jar, the contents are a sure clue as to
which direction to move my hand for the right one.  

I too use three lazy-Susan type thingies, all packed with jars.
The only good thing about finding what I want is that I tend to
be the only person using the herbs and spices, so they tend to
stay on the same tray, same position.  It works, mostly.

At one point I stored them on an open rack, one jar deep. 
This was fine except they tended to get too much exposure
to light and the jars tended to look too messy for display.

The best solution I've seen is a drawer (silverware-style)
that is designed to hold spice jars slightly tipped up, 
side by side.  But this size drawer is usually at a premium
in modest size kitchens.

One thing I know for sure.  I don't want to use any system
that would require my removing the herbs and spices from the
bottles or little cans they come in.

At this point with the lazy susan, the best I 
can do is think, "If the cinnamon is in front, 
then the ginger is somewhere on the right."
Not good enough, and not likely ever to get
better.  But cmcgee's solution is still the
one I'd prefer, if I could do it.  (I'm pretty
good with books, though.  "Where'd Snow Falling
On Cedars go to?"  "Purple bathroom, toilet 
tank, the stack on the left, second from the 
bottom.")

We once experimented with some miniature risers
we got from a catalog.  They were like little
stadium seats or bleachers: you'd arrange them on
the cupbord shelf, and then you'd line the tins 
and bottles of spices on them.  As you went in, 
each row would be an inch or so higher than the 
one in front of it.  Not a bad idea, only a bit 
unstable (domino-like accidents) and not capacious 
enough for us.  The containers overwhelmed them,
and they ended up merely in the way.

Here's what the "riser" looked like:
http://store.yahoo.com/stacks/10362.html

How about a set of single-depth racks, mounted to slide out of a cupboard?
You'd see the end of each rack when you opened the cupboard, then grab the
one your spice is on and pull it out.  Maybe 3-4 levels on each, and they go
to the back of the cupboard?

How many spices are people talking about here?  Are they all stored in the
same size containers?  Very few of mine are.

No, and that's part of the problem.  If they
all came in some uniform size and shape the
Perfect Spice Rack would've been invented
long ago.  There are some nice-looking (and
very pricey) spice racks that hold stoppered
glass tubes of a uniform size and shape, but
to use them you'd have to violate Mary's (and
my) preference not to have to waste time 
decanting a can of cumin into a test tube.
Also, the glass tubes sit vertically in the
rack and are quite close together, which would
make it hard to know which spice was in which
tube.  But people must use them.  The Dean
and Deluca one sells for something like $150.

Actually, there are two main containers:
the McCormick can and the McCormick bottle.
So, you'd think McCormick might've come up
with some nifty storage units, wouldn't you?
But a quick perusal of http://www.mccormick.com/
failed to turn up anything.

I have a matching set of small jars and the same sort of jar in a larger
size.  I don't take my spices out of jars or cans to put them in my jars,
I get my spices in the amounts I need at the CO-Op or Whole Foods.  They need
to come out of the paper or plastic bags that they come home in.

Not necessarily.  Our spice rack had lots of plastic baggies on it too.

My dad made a wooden bread box for me. The whole front of it is a door 
that hinges downward. Since we keep bread in the refrigerator (home made 
with no preservatives) the breadbox sits atop the microwave and holds all 
the spices. This is especially nice because, unlike a cupboard, the box 
is below eye level and easy to pick through.
(BuskShot would like you to know that the cat treats are in there, too, 
and she can zip to the top of the breadbox but can't figure out how to 
open the door. Yet.)

... er. BuckShot. Sheesh!

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Even though I do most of the cooking, Silvia does the organizing. We 
have three lazy susans in our spice cupboard. Two hold "cooking" spices 
and herbs. The third holds "baking" spices, and stuff like vanilla. Of 
course, there are some things that just don't fit, but there's only a 
few of those.

"Oh, look at that adorable spice rack!  Eight spices?  Some *must* be
doubles.  Ore-GAH-no?  What the hell?"

                              - Marge Simpson

(Yanno, that reminds me of a roommate of mine.  I really managed to baffle
her with cumin once.  She just seemed not to understand the concept.)

We are now up to 4 lasy-susan type thingies.  It's Penzey's fault, not
mine. ;-)

Carousals are still problematic.

I think the people at Alcoholics Anonymous would call the people at Penzey's
"enablers."

My new apartment has very, very little cabinet space and my lazy susan spice
shelves are no longer an option.  Anyone know where I can get a *very* space
efficient spice rack that keeps the light off the bottles?

Shoebox.  Write the names on the tops with a magic marker.

How about a spice rack on the inside of a cabinet door?  Would solve the light
problem.

I'm with (i) on this.  I keep mine tightly packed in rows with only the
tops showing.  Alphabetized, so that my hand reaches for just the right
one usually.  

I have, over the years, moved everything into identical Spice Island
jars.  You could do the same thing quickly by purchasing sufficient
jars at the Food Coop.  I put little round labels on the top of the
lids early on, with the name written on each label.  

Nowadays it doesn't matter.  My spice selection, (50 little jars, as
I just counted) hasn't changed much in years.  I just keep refilling
the things from the _very_ inexpensive selection at the Coop.  

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