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Show r 2007 Thursday, September 6, 2007 0 R E M TIMES Page 15 later pernor 7 it-his-g. JS1C, e ng- Bt- and nt Hi-nude, pro ;rful ide r n, ing il- i ;ed i em. 30 s aff en-he Emily Marlowe NORTH COUNTY STAFF If you were to ask most people what kind of spices they use most often, your typical typi-cal response would most likely be "salt and pepper." I believe this is in part due to the lack of knowledge most people have when it comes to spices and cooking. When I heard from a reader that she is frustrated with her spice rack, and needed help in knowing how long spices last and what the best one's are to keep, I figured she could not be alone, and maybe 1 could help a few others by giving a little info on spices. Spices have a long shelf life if you take care of them. Here are few hints and an idea of just how long they will last. I Spices and herbs will loose their flavor, and color over time. To preserve your spices store them in a cool dark and dry place. I You may want to refrigerate refrig-erate your brightly colored spices. This will help preserve the color. i Ground spices will last 2-3 years Herbs will last 1-3 years Seasoning salts and blends will last 1-2 years I Extracts such as vanilla and almond will last 4-5 years Fresh herbs are usually best when added to a dish near the end of cooking or even after it has been removed from the heat. Overcooking will dissolve dis-solve their fragrance. The exception is preparations prepara-tions that are not cooked such as salsa, dips, and marinades. Adding the herbs at the beginning begin-ning and allowing the item to rest will give the herbs time to infiltrate the base ingredients. ingredi-ents. Many spices, since they are dried, can be added at the beginning of cooking since heat and moisture is needed to release their essential oils. Herbs and spices are a wonderful won-derful way to bypass unwanted salt, butter or oil on foods. Steam your asparagus and then add lemon juice and chopped chervil. Braise your carrots in low fat chicken broth and then sprinkle them with fresh mint, parsley or cinnamon. Chicken breasts go great with rosemary, rose-mary, paprika, or sage. My favorite way of employing employ-ing spices is in rubs for meat. A rub is basically a dry marinade. mari-nade. For example, brush both sides of a steak or pork chop with olive oil. Then liberally apply a mixture mix-ture of salt, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, thyme, paprika, and cayenne powder, Push in the rub with your fingers or a fork, allow it to rest for 10 minutes, and then saute broil, or grill the meat. Spices you will want to keep around that come in handy han-dy for several things are: I Italian seasoning is great for sauces and flavoring meat for pizza and spaghetti. I Cumin will add spice to your Mexican dishes. I Minced onion makes for a quick fix when you just can't make yourself cry over a fresh onion. Remember minced onion is about 3 times as strong as a fresh onion so use sparingly. I Nutmeg, cloves, cinnamon and allspice will be needed in breads and cookies. On one last note, if you're looking to add great seasoning season-ing to your fried potatoes, corn, steak and hamburgers you must try Broiled Steak Seasoning from McCormick. You will not go wrong; it is simply the seasoning to add spice to your life. Clean out those spice racks and I hope I have helped some of you along your way. I look forward to more batter chatter chat-ter next week. I am ready for my next recipe and question. ques-tion. You can reach me at emilymarloweconnect2. com. 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A 1993 book titled "The Pearl Harbor Papers Inside the Japanese Plans," edited by Donald M. Goldstein & Katherine V. Dillon, makes available a variety of Japanese documents not before available, including includ-ing the Pearl Harbor map used to brief Emperor Hirohito in late December 1941. Puring the 1930s, there was a great debate in Japan, as there was in the U.S., over the potential of air power as a decisive force in a modern war. Because airplanes air-planes were relative new, navies na-vies and land armies were the customary vehicles of attack. "Mesmerized" Japanese strategists thus proposed to lure the U.S. fleet into Japanese Japa-nese waters and then begin picking the ships off with submarines. What remained of the U.S. fleet would then would be about equal in strength to Japan's fleet, and the Japanese would win this "Great All-Out Battle." The air-attack plan of Iso roku Yamamoto, then commander com-mander of the Combined Fleet, eventually prevailed, though his concept "flew in the face of the 'Great All-Out Battle strategy.'" strat-egy.'" Even then, the "problems involved were many and daunting." daunt-ing." The attack on Hawaii was successful due in large part to the "brains and vision" of Commander Com-mander Minoru Genda. "The three Genda studies the authors) present in Part 1 of the book are of the utmost historical importance." Ex tracts from diaries and papers of other high ranking Japanese Japa-nese military staff are also part of this book. It's generally well known that the Japanese military wielded superior political power at this time in the country's coun-try's government. Japan had already invaded China and laid plans to seize the rich natural resources of China and the South Pacific. Japanese diplomats dip-lomats in Washington D.C., though eager and perhaps even able to resolve disputes through diplomacy, became "irrelevant" to plans already underway. The air attack on Pearl Harbor was by any standards "brilliant," as this volume amply am-ply illustrates. The Japanese had carefully assessed the potential of an air force as a decisive fart or in initiating and sustaining the initial confrontation, con-frontation, the Pearl Harbor attack. They had done their homework well. The book documents in detail, from primary sources, the plan and progress of the Pearl Harbor attack. A major challenge was modification mod-ification of torpedoes so that they would be effective in the shallow waters of Pearl Har bor. Pilots of torpedo bombers, bomb-ers, as well as dive bombers, underwent through training in order to achieve maximum effectiveness. Surprise was of course the critical element. The attack went precisely as planned except that U.S. aircraft carriers were not in the harbor at the time. Had they been, the course of the war would have been far different for a much longer time. There would have been no U.S. victory in the decisive Battle of Midway. The book concludes with a most candid "aftermath" assessment as-sessment of the Japanese navy by Masataka Chihaya, a Japanese Japa-nese naval officer. Lynn Gray, the submariner featured in these recent newspaper news-paper articles, was especially interested in Chihaya's comments com-ments on the Japanese submarine subma-rine fleet. Despite Japan's "utmost" efforts ef-forts to "improve and perfect this branch of the sea forces," that dream was never realized. Despite limited successes (for example, the sinking of the carrier Yorktown at Midway), submarines were again and again outclassed by superior American naval and air power. 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