Are you guilty of skipping the common recipe directive to freshly grind spices like nutmeg, coriander, and the subject at hand: cardamom? Sure, it tacks on time to your recipe prep, but the results ...

What Does Cardamom Taste Like? The flavor of cardamom is complex and a little hard to explain. It has a floral, earthy flavor that works well in both sweet and savory applications. That said, the ...

(CNN) -- Open a jar of cardamom and the scent is unmistakable, unstoppable -- strong, spicy and dreamy. It belongs alongside cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves and allspice as a culinary scent that deserves to ...

If you like chai, it’s because of the enchantment of a single spice out of all the heady flavorings in this Indian tea. Once you taste cardamom, even if you don’t know its name, you never forget it.

When it comes to packing breakfasts, lunches and dinners with flavor and excitement, the ease of using pre-ground spices is difficult to beat. However, given the time it took for that jar to hit the ...

Minnesota-born Beatrice Ojakangas has been dubbed the “baker laureate” of the nation with some 26 cookbooks to her credit. The Duluth resident specializes in baking and Scandinavian cooking. Ojakangas ...

The typical grocer sells some 50,000 different products. The typical shopper buys the same 264 over and over again. The point of this column? To persuade you to take a second look at some of the ...

Cardamom is a spice I love, even though I do not use it often. I add a small amount of the ground spice when I make Danish pastries and delicate chickpea-flour cookies, and use a pod or two when I am ...

This cardamom pound cake is a favorite of mine, especially in the fall and winter when warming holiday spices make every dish ...