RawSpiceBar is a new cooking subscription. Every month for $6 you’ll receive small batch, freshly ground spice blends by top chefs for home cooks.
January Mailing
Each month you’ll receive 3-4 freshly ground spice blends from one geography or region, enough to create 3 dishes serving 8-12 people
In addition, you’ll get 3 kitchen-tested recipe cards, plus additional recipes online.
January’s theme was Native American. It featured Sumac & Herbs, Ground Chiles, Posole Spices, and a Juniper Berries Blend.
These are fresh, not over-ground spices, and we thought they were all delicious.
My husband placed these in a muslin bag in the pressure cooker with some pork. It gently infused the entire dish with the flavors. Magnificent!
The subscription included a recipe for posole. We actually made our go-to recipe and replaced the spices with RawSpiceBar’s blend. Absolutely fantastic. This is a great way to introduce some adventure into your cooking without the long term commitment of a bottle. You know you’re supposed to dump all your spices after 6-12 months, right?
February RawSpiceBar
I love the little envelope inside the outer one, it’s so pretty.
We didn’t take a photo of it, but my husband carefully followed the RawSpiceBar recipe for Punjabi Chicken Tikka Masala. It was delicious. I am frankly terrible at making Indian food but this was a fairly easy recipe, with pretty authentic tastes – We grilled the chicken first and then cooked it in the masala.
Punjab Garam Masala – This one, toasted and freshly ground, is used in the sauce. Each family typically has their own garam masala blend.
Tandoori Spices – You use these to marinate meat before charring. The charring is so so good.
Rose & Chai Spices – Isn’t this lovely? The included recipe was for nankhatai cookies with the flavors of freshly ground black peppercorns, ginger, organic rose buds & North Indian black tea.
RawSpiceBar added me to the subscriber mailing list so I could see what regular subscribers got. You’ll get a head’s up of the theme shortly before you receive it – and you’ll be able to visit their site to get a shopping list for that month’s recipes. I think this is an excellent subscription. We love to cook and we love flavorful, well-spiced food with fresh top-quality spices and herbs. RawSpiceBar totally delivered on that.
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The Description: Fresh, Authentic Spice Blends. Created by Top Chefs For Globally Inspired Home Meals.
The Price: $6
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Comments
All Spice is my favorite.
Haven’t tried many, but I love Old Bay.
I like all kinds of foods from everywhere…so it’s hard to say. Indian food is my favorite, but so many people have already said Garam Masala…I think I’ll say an Italian Spice blend. 🙂
My favorite spice is lemon pepper garlic. We love it on popcorn, fish, and chicken.
I love garlic and onion powder
I am an asian type of person, so it would be asian spices.
thai red curry paste
My favorite spice mix is Les Herbes Provence!
my favorite is thyme and cinnamon
I love crazy combinations especially strong flavors such as garlic and chile
I think this box looks great.
subscribe email: slehan at myway dot com
I like Garam Masala
Thanks for the contest.
slehan at juno dot com
I like garam masala spice mix for Indian foods.
i am a garlic girl, gimme some garlic and i am set
I like a nice mix of cinnamon, clove, cardamom, and nutmeg. Hell, just throw all the yummy warming spices in there. 😉
I like curries.
I hope I win
i use lots of basil and cumin
I use a lot of basil. I need to get more adventurous.. my fiancee loves spices.
I like to experiment with mixes of spice for my mexican or tex mex dishes. Cumin, Chili powder and peppers are my favorite to mix!
This looks great. I do a new recipie 1-2 times a month so this will be fun. We tried plated and it was good but just too expensive for 4 people especially when you still have to make a salad or side and it didn’t feel much like trying new things. I can’t wait to try this one
My favorite spice mix is Garam Masala
I think this is the first review I’ve seen of this box where the reviewer actually used the spices, so thank you. I thought the January spices were amazing but haven’t tried February’s yet.
we are hardcore, we actually try to use subscriptions like this in order to give a real review. we can’t always use every single item in time for the post, but we make an honest effort. we used the ground chiles too now that i think about it, but i’m not sure what it was in. you’re welcome and thanks for noticing 🙂
I blend my own “harvest spice” kind of between a pumpkin pie spice and apple pie.
This looks like a fun subscription
Even if I don’t win I’m so going to sub to this! Great prices and new flavors for my cooking, a win win. I’d love posole spices
So we are not overly adventurous with our spices so I usually just use some lemon and herb or something with garlic or crushed red peppers. We need to venture out.