^ dude, you rock!

try also whole spice out of petaluma...they have a shop in the Oxbow Public Market where I work. I use their spices exclusively in my kitchen at the restaurant (Oxbow wine merchants and wine bar) they are the freshest custom ground spices ive ever used...small operation, lots of middle eastern spice blends and unique items

 

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I order my ground Chipotle online from Penzey's. I have found nothing even half as good!


http://www.penzeys.com/cgi-bin/penzeys/p-penzeyschipotle.html

 

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My new favorite pepper is the guajillo chile. They come whole & dried from Penzey's. But you just pull the stem/sac and dump out as many of the seeds as you can. Then I toast them for about 10-15 sec (just until you can smell them). Then they go into the spice grinder and get pulverized to dust.


If you like chipotles, check these out. Heat-wise, they're about the same. But they've got a nice smokey goodness.

Thats what I like about the chipotles, the nice smokey goodness! I'll look into em my next order.

 

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Also great from Penzey's:


Aleppo pepper

Tuscan Sunset

Greek Seasoning

 

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Nice to see so many ppl into their spices!