I bought some star anise today to use in a recipe from Food & Wine magazine for Beef Pho. I’ve never used it before and am taken by the shape and oh, the smell! Its fragrant perfume is redolent of licorice and promise. I can’t wait to make the Master Pho Broth, which cooks down for more than 6 hours. The Glover Gardens kitchen will be truly aromatic tomorrow.
The star anise was so pretty that I had to get a portrait of it. And did I mention the smell? Heavenly. It’s time that star anise and I get better acquainted. (Watch this space.)
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Toss a couple of them in your rice maker when you are making plain white 🍚. 🤗
Great idea, but ain’t got no rice maker! Is that a NOLA thing? We just make rice in a saucepan. That would work, too, methinks.
It’s an Asian thing.