Just like DIY plumbing or wiring projects, gourmet cooking or special cooking for the Holidays, you always are missing or find that you need an extra part, tool, or an essential ingredient, and yeah I know, it would have been great if you had included the item on your grocery list, but hey that would take all the fun out of feeling like a cat that has been thrown against a wall with all claws unsheathed preparing that great holiday meal! Besides many spices and flavorings don’t last forever even though from what you paid for they should. Take for instance, vanilla beans–okay really expensive vanilla beans come in their own container, but if you want to buy them at the Whole Foods how do you store them? Something like a long test tube would be useful, but not all of us are mad scientists either. What is the answer?

Well, Chefs™ Catalog offers Nielsen-Massey Madagascar Vanilla Paste, a concentrated pure sweet syrup with flecks of handpicked vanilla paste for that special ice cream, crème brûlée, or custard. 4 oz. for $11.99, and get free shipping on any purchase through Wednesday, December 3, 2008. Martha would be so proud! Just think you won’t need an extra sharp knife to open that bean and scrape out its’ ingredients, better to have that flavor and all its’ seeds at your fingertips rather than losing a fingertip to retrieve it.

It’s A Better Idea!

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