They call me Mellow Yellow

Yes, the KitchenAid has arrived and I love it, but today I'm posting with even greater culinary significance.

As you may or may not know my friend Jess just returned from the Middle East and year in Israel and is presently residing on my sofa. In her travels to Turkey she picked me up some authentic spice mixes and most amazingly - a few ounces of the most precious and luxurious spice: Saffron.

I'm not going to get into it now, but this stuff is pricey (it's slightly more expensive than actual gold) and hard to come by because it is made from the delicate stigmas of crocuses. It takes a football field of these flowers just to make a pound of saffron and the work is all done by hand. Jess brought me back a little baggy stuffed (about three times the amount shown here) with the exotic crimson stems. Needless to say, I am excited, but I now feel like I need a safe in the kitchen. And here is the rest of it.


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