Sweet as honey

For a couple months I've been wanting to make these Lithuanian Honey Spirits by the Global Table Adventure. Click the link for the recipe. When I first saw this, I was in Peru where I could never get some of those ingredients. Now that I've been in Denver, it's been a slow process of finding all the spices in my variety of ethnic stores that I like to go to. But I finally got everything!


Why did I spend so much time looking for spices in ethnic stores when I could just go to the super market and get them?

#1: Price

Spices are durn expensive in regular grocery stores. In ethnic stores the price tends to be much more reasonable.

#2: Amount

Anyone else think that portions of whole spices in grocery stores are skimpy??

#3: Adventure

Costco and King Soopers is boring. I'd rather be in a Middle Eastern or Asian market any day.


Middle Eastern stores tend to have allspice, nutmeg, cardamom, and peppercorns. Asian stores usually have fresh turmeric and whole cinnamon sticks.

I actually forgot to add nutmeg and vanilla to this, oops! I guess I'll just have to sprinkle nutmeg on it before it goes down the hatch :) The rest of the spices I already had.



Yummm....honey