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








I love the look of fresh turmeric.



Hello kitty!


Such a gorgeous color.



UPDATE!!! (3/30/12)

I had a rough day of menial office tasks for 6 straight unpaid hours today, and I needed something.

So I got out my freshly made Krupnikas, and it was exactly what I needed.

When I put the Everclear in at the very beginning, I got one whiff of it and said, "My god this will be strong"

But it's very smooth, with a strong fresh turmeric flavor that I've just started to recognize and love.

So drink up, it's liquid gold!