Comments on: Let’s Talk Hard-to-Find Ingredients https://tastykitchen.com/blog/2014/09/lets-talk-hard-to-find-ingredients/ Welcome! Thu, 20 Feb 2020 02:19:16 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.31 By: tara https://tastykitchen.com/blog/2014/09/lets-talk-hard-to-find-ingredients/comment-page-1/#comment-951538 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 08:59:00 +0000 https://tastykitchen.com/?p=17174#comment-951538 I live in Iran and I can’t find good and qualified mozzarella and the other cheese like that. Factories in Iran produce different kind of cheese but they are not good at all. Also I have not seen vanilla beans in our stores. I don’t know is in Tehran or not.
On the other hand I can always find the best saffron, pistachio, almond, nut and seeds like cardamom that we use them sometimes as a home remedy . Saffron is one of Iran’s exports.

]]> By: Philly // Together in Italy https://tastykitchen.com/blog/2014/09/lets-talk-hard-to-find-ingredients/comment-page-1/#comment-951368 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 17:01:16 +0000 https://tastykitchen.com/?p=17174#comment-951368 I have never been able to find real Buffalo milk mozzarella like they have in Italy.

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]]> By: Rachel https://tastykitchen.com/blog/2014/09/lets-talk-hard-to-find-ingredients/comment-page-1/#comment-951353 Mon, 29 Sep 2014 00:04:40 +0000 https://tastykitchen.com/?p=17174#comment-951353 I usually abandon my search for things. I have been trying to find ancho chili powder for years. I finally came across it one day in a random grocery store.

]]> By: kay43026 https://tastykitchen.com/blog/2014/09/lets-talk-hard-to-find-ingredients/comment-page-1/#comment-951334 Sat, 27 Sep 2014 08:53:49 +0000 https://tastykitchen.com/?p=17174#comment-951334 It’s really hard to find QUALITY, affordable vanilla beans! I mean, they are readily available in the grocery…all of 1-2 beans in a little glass jar…if you want to sell your first born!

I’ve ordered from Amazon. They are just okay…but you get a LOT.
My favorite is at Costco in a little glass cigar-case-looking container…but they only have them at holiday (Thanksgiving/Christmas) time. The last several years I’ve purchased several containers (probably 10-12 in a container), and ‘ration’ then out throughout the year. Depending on the recipe, I’ll use either the ‘Amazon ones’ or pull out the big guns and use the good stuff.

That said…it’s 2014…why can’t ingredients be easy to find??!!

]]> By: Terri @ that's some good cookin' https://tastykitchen.com/blog/2014/09/lets-talk-hard-to-find-ingredients/comment-page-1/#comment-951280 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 20:11:11 +0000 https://tastykitchen.com/?p=17174#comment-951280 As a matter of fact, I’ve been having an ingredient frustration for the past couple of weeks. Maple extract. I want real, honest to goodness, maple extract. I thought it would be a matter of zipping over to my favorite “has everything” grocery store and picking up a bottle of the extract. Nope. So far, I haven’t found any stores in my area that sell anything except mapleine or imitation maple extract. An internet search has revealed that it is not a very common product and there are only a few places that sell it. Who knew?

]]> By: neilu https://tastykitchen.com/blog/2014/09/lets-talk-hard-to-find-ingredients/comment-page-1/#comment-951270 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:01:32 +0000 https://tastykitchen.com/?p=17174#comment-951270 Living in California with such a diversity in culture and cousin makes it easy to find everything and I mean Everything. Recently in the huge Korean market ( I’m not Korean) close to my house I saw Alligator Feet. I do not know what that thing is for or even it is edible at all. We have it all, Indian, Asian, Armenian, Russian, Jewish kosher, Middle Eastern and Persian…..you name it. I guess for us Hard to Find means Hard to Find well Taste. We can find any type of Vegetables and Fruits at anytime of year but when it is out of season it does not taste as it should and this is “Hard to Find” for us.

]]> By: CQ https://tastykitchen.com/blog/2014/09/lets-talk-hard-to-find-ingredients/comment-page-1/#comment-951256 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 12:34:18 +0000 https://tastykitchen.com/?p=17174#comment-951256 I always thought I could find anything in Manhattan, but I have never once found an escargot that wasn’t canned or frozen and smothered in herb butter. Restaurants must get them fresh or frozen from somewhere, why can’t I! I also have a major gripe about having to go all the way to Brooklyn to get food-grade lye.

]]> By: SVF https://tastykitchen.com/blog/2014/09/lets-talk-hard-to-find-ingredients/comment-page-1/#comment-951252 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:45:13 +0000 https://tastykitchen.com/?p=17174#comment-951252 There are over half a million people living in my county, in the western US. We claim to value such things as home cooking. I was surprised that I had to go to three different grocery stores to find whole vanilla beans. That seems like such a common ingredient.

]]> By: Autumn https://tastykitchen.com/blog/2014/09/lets-talk-hard-to-find-ingredients/comment-page-1/#comment-951241 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 08:16:27 +0000 https://tastykitchen.com/?p=17174#comment-951241 I am an American living in Austria. The things I have tried and failed to find over here include vanilla extract, mint extract, chocolate chips, cornstarch, baking soda, molasses, corn syrup, ground nutmeg, rosemary, cranberries, cooking spray, measuring spoons, and bacon. I rely on a combination of substituting (e.g. honey for molasses), importing (required an extra suitcase during my last visit home!), and sucking it up. God, I miss bacon.

]]> By: Verlene https://tastykitchen.com/blog/2014/09/lets-talk-hard-to-find-ingredients/comment-page-1/#comment-951226 Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:37:11 +0000 https://tastykitchen.com/?p=17174#comment-951226 Just TRY to find sorghum in Colorado. Thank goodness for the internet.

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