{"id":12804,"date":"2013-06-12T05:00:27","date_gmt":"2013-06-12T12:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/?p=12804"},"modified":"2015-06-02T18:28:08","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T01:28:08","slug":"spicing-up-fathers-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shescookin.com\/spicing-up-fathers-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Spicing Up Father’s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Among my\u00a0tips for low sodium cooking<\/a>, spices and herbs are one of the easiest to adopt and most fun to experiment with. They’re readily available and can transform a blah dish into a totally amazeballs, “what’s your secret” kind of dish.\u00a0
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Lately, I’ve been experimenting with the seemingly endless varieties of spice blends from Savory Spice Shop<\/a>. Their seasonings are not necessarily salt-free, but many of them have little or no sodium. Two of my favorites are the California Citrus Rub and Barrier Reef, both are fantastic on a variety of meats, fish,and vegetables. I used the last of the California Citrus Rub blended with olive oil to roast a tray full of beets, carrots, and purple potatoes for a dinner party last week.<\/p>\n

But, what I find to be unique to Savory Spice Shop, besides the high quality and reasonable prices, is that you can try out seasonings by purchasing a 1-ounce packages or small jar. Throwing barely used jars of herbs and spices out after 6 months to a year has always been hard for me – but that’s the rule for maintaining freshness.<\/p>\n

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Another thing I really like is they send me spices to play with \ud83d\ude42 \u00a0and for every holiday Savory Spice Shop has beautiful gift sets that are a perfect gift for the cooks, foodies, or grill masters you know. In June and through the summer, you can choose from three pre-packed Father\u2019s Day BBQ sets: Wranglin’ Rubs<\/em>, Steak Lovers<\/em>, and Chops & Bones BBQ<\/em> or, with more than 400\u00a0spice\u00a0blends to choose from,\u00a0Savory\u00a0Spice\u00a0Shop can customize sets based on your specific tastes.<\/p>\n

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Planning for last week’s get together, I was thinking grilled leg of lamb would be nice for a change of pace and when I opened their email with information about their Father’s Day gift sets, the Limos Lamb Rub immediately caught my eye. \u00a0Savory Spice Shop was kind enough to send me a 1 ounce package of the Limnos Lamb Rub and the three other blends (Pearl St. Plank Rub, Pike’s Peak Butcher’s Rub, Flat Irons Prime Rib Rub) in the Wranglin\u2019 Rubs set to try. With sea salt, garlic, lemon peel, onion, black pepper, fennel, rosemary, thyme, sage, basil, parsley, oregano, spearmint and marjoram, the Limnos Lamb Rub is perfect for lamb, but also good on venison, goose or duck. I used the entire 1 ounce package rubbed on two 3-pound legs of lamb – that, and Don’s grill technique, is the extent of my “secret” recipe. Several guests even said it was the best lamb they have ever had, and that’s what we cooks love to hear \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

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