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Moussaka

Ingredients Layers 6 eggplants optional potatoes for base (~~2lb) olive oil Meat Sauce 1 1/2 lb ground beef 2 red onions (chopped) 2 cloves of garlic (chopped) 1 tin petite cut stewed tomatoes (450 ml) 2 tbsp tomato paste 1 teaspoon sugar 1 cup of red wine salt freshly ground black pepper 1 bay leaf 1/8 tsp cinnamon 1/4 cup olive oil Bechamel 4 cups milk 1/4 lb butter 1/4 cup flour 1/8 tsp nutmeg 2 egg yolks 4 oz Parmigiano-Reggiano salt to taste

Developing Spice List

I am working out a fairly large 'must have' spice list. We have more than a hundred containers of spice here, but I only have about 60 spaces to keep them in the kitchen. The rest will have to be stored away from the action. I am curious to know what other people normally use. I looked on line at various 'must have' lists and they were all over the place. At least two lists of less than fifteen 'essential' spices had things like 'Apple pie spice' -- too dumb to even put on this long list. Here is a list of one hundred and eleven spices, some of which we have here.  The other lists consulted did not contain some of them. Some were available at places like Bulk Barn or otherwise mentioned, but not on the lists. The list is in the order of number of lists containing the spice. I consulted twenty-one lists. The purpose of the list is to help me determine which of the spices get to occupy the 60 or so spots I have where they can be near at hand. The fact that