Pickled ginger. Candied ginger. Walker’s shortbread cookies with candied ginger. Ginger-honey jelly (you add hot water and maybe some lemon for a great sore throat soother). Ginger dressing. Raw ginger julienned into soup/ sauces.
@PooltoyWolf I got curious about why redheads are called ginger when the actual root is kind of a tan or yellow color. I tried googling it but just found a bunch of nonsense and speculation. Do you know why?
Ginger juice. I found it on Amazon, of course. By “The Ginger People”. I use it to make my own ginger ale, and to add to recipes that call for ginger. It keeps for a good long while after opening, and that way I don’t have to remember to buy fresh every time I want to make Indian food.
I love ginger and always have at least one hand of it in the fridge. I add it to a variety of foods, salads, soups, drinks, etc. It has some great medicinal properties as an antibacterial, antinausea, antiinflammatory, and more.
And yes, I have a number of packs of ginger chews on the pantry shelf. So I’m on the fence with respect to this offer.
I used to frequent a Chinese restaurant, where I would always ask for extra ginger on the side. When I became known there and as I would walk in the door, the staff would grin and greet me as “Ginger Man!”
I sometimes make my own pickled ginger which I love with sushi, fish dishes, or even a hot dog. I often open a jar of commercial dill or sweet pickles and dump in an handful of ginger strips or slices, reseal it and let the ginger do its magic.
Perhaps my favorite is to make a dish with hot, fresh cooked spaghetti and a variety of chopped fresh veggies (cherry tomatoes, celery, cilantro, cucumber, onion, scallion, bell pepper, etc.), along with lime juice, sesame oil and lots of julienned ginger strips.
@Jackinga@Kyeh Yep. Funny story: I work in a nursery known for selling edible tropical plants. We buy ginger from the store, stick it in dirt, wait 'til it sprouts, and make a 500% profit selling the plants.
It grows in the shade, so it grows pretty slowly. But not many edibles do well in shade at all, so it’s a good way to make use of space. Freezes kill it, so you really need to be in Zone 10 to grow it outdoors (it may regrow from the root if it’s not a hard freeze, but then you have less root to harvest…). Since it likes low light, it can also be grown as a houseplant.
@Jackinga@Weboh I love that! I’m going to try it as a houseplant that I can put on the patio in the summertime. When I buy ginger in the store I don’t use it fast enough and some of it just dries up.
@PocketBrain as many cats as I’ve had over the years, we got our first ginger 18 months ago, a long hair. He’s an absolute turd at times, but we love him a lot!
I am borderline obsessed with ginger, like a few other folks on here. I’m also a red head. As is my son. My favorite cocktail for the past few years is a Dark and Stormy. The sharper the ginger beer, the better! I tried growing ginger this summer, I soaked then planted some pieces from the grocery store and they are getting massive! I’ve had to separate and repot them twice. It’s savory, spicy, sweet, and earthy at the same time. And has that special something that the French call… I don’t know what.
Now discontinued…smh…Starbuck’s Gingerbread Latte (hot sports opinion: way better than pumpkin spice) but it is the Gin Gins Super Stength blue colored bag
@faxtory I’m not familiar with the “blue colored bag” idiom. The closest I’ve been able to come up with is “the blue pill” (which can be either of two very different references/meanings).
I’m assuming it’s some pop culture reference I’m not getting. Can anybody help me out?
At one time, I’d have said Blenheim Ginger Ale - in the bottles with the pink caps. That was the strongest. Somewhere in the past decade, they must have been bought out, because it’s not what it once was.
I prefer the byproduct of Ginger known as Mary Ann.
@yakkoTDI You beat me to it…
@shahnm @yakkoTDI
Not convinced byproduct was the word you’re searching for…
But yes… Mary Ann> Ginger
@chienfou @shahnm It was the punniest thing I could come up with.
@chienfou @shahnm @yakkoTDI
Didn’t you put that toothless ho, Ginger Vitus, in your trunk?
@chienfou @phendrick @shahnm Only if someone called me for my pickup service.
Ginger Snaps
/giphy Ginger Snaps
Yeah, ginger snaps and milk…so good.
Ginger Grant (from Gilligan’s Island)!! [aka Tina Louise]
Pickled ginger. Candied ginger. Walker’s shortbread cookies with candied ginger. Ginger-honey jelly (you add hot water and maybe some lemon for a great sore throat soother). Ginger dressing. Raw ginger julienned into soup/ sauces.
@brainmist Wow, you really love the stuff! You’re like the Bubba Blue of ginger…
How about Red heads , which are called ginger, Ginger staples
Lebkuchen - German gingerbread.
Myself, as I have red hair.
@PooltoyWolf I got curious about why redheads are called ginger when the actual root is kind of a tan or yellow color. I tried googling it but just found a bunch of nonsense and speculation. Do you know why?
@Kyeh I honestly have no idea!
Ginger juice. I found it on Amazon, of course. By “The Ginger People”. I use it to make my own ginger ale, and to add to recipes that call for ginger. It keeps for a good long while after opening, and that way I don’t have to remember to buy fresh every time I want to make Indian food.
@BethanyAnne Ooo, thanks - this sounds like something I need to check out.
I love ginger and always have at least one hand of it in the fridge. I add it to a variety of foods, salads, soups, drinks, etc. It has some great medicinal properties as an antibacterial, antinausea, antiinflammatory, and more.
And yes, I have a number of packs of ginger chews on the pantry shelf. So I’m on the fence with respect to this offer.
I used to frequent a Chinese restaurant, where I would always ask for extra ginger on the side. When I became known there and as I would walk in the door, the staff would grin and greet me as “Ginger Man!”
I sometimes make my own pickled ginger which I love with sushi, fish dishes, or even a hot dog. I often open a jar of commercial dill or sweet pickles and dump in an handful of ginger strips or slices, reseal it and let the ginger do its magic.
Perhaps my favorite is to make a dish with hot, fresh cooked spaghetti and a variety of chopped fresh veggies (cherry tomatoes, celery, cilantro, cucumber, onion, scallion, bell pepper, etc.), along with lime juice, sesame oil and lots of julienned ginger strips.
@Jackinga OK, that sounds DELICIOUS.
@Jackinga If you like ginger that much, you can try growing your own and save a little money.
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@Jackinga @Weboh
Have you grown it?
@Jackinga @Kyeh Yep. Funny story: I work in a nursery known for selling edible tropical plants. We buy ginger from the store, stick it in dirt, wait 'til it sprouts, and make a 500% profit selling the plants.
It grows in the shade, so it grows pretty slowly. But not many edibles do well in shade at all, so it’s a good way to make use of space. Freezes kill it, so you really need to be in Zone 10 to grow it outdoors (it may regrow from the root if it’s not a hard freeze, but then you have less root to harvest…). Since it likes low light, it can also be grown as a houseplant.
@Jackinga @Weboh I love that! I’m going to try it as a houseplant that I can put on the patio in the summertime. When I buy ginger in the store I don’t use it fast enough and some of it just dries up.
Gingerbread, in cake form. Preferably with whipped cream.
@ircon96 Mine was in cannabis infused form (was, cause I haven’t made it in many years…)
I am allergic to ginger. A little makes my throat hurt, a lot makes my asthma flare up. Bummer, because I like the flavor of it.
Ginger cats.
@PocketBrain as many cats as I’ve had over the years, we got our first ginger 18 months ago, a long hair. He’s an absolute turd at times, but we love him a lot!
@PocketBrain Awww, yes! I do have a special fondness for ginger kitties - although tuxedo boys are excellent too.
@OnionSoup these two were really sweet. As was their “sister.”
it’s Snaps for me
My Irish wife.
She made me type that.
I am borderline obsessed with ginger, like a few other folks on here. I’m also a red head. As is my son. My favorite cocktail for the past few years is a Dark and Stormy. The sharper the ginger beer, the better! I tried growing ginger this summer, I soaked then planted some pieces from the grocery store and they are getting massive! I’ve had to separate and repot them twice. It’s savory, spicy, sweet, and earthy at the same time. And has that special something that the French call… I don’t know what.
@00
Mois je sais… je ne sais quoi!
@00 This is my favorite ginger beer - very strong ginger flavor that is great in Dark and Stormies:
@macromeh the C&B with cherry, on the other hand, tastes like Robitussin
@00 @chienfou
Too perfect … or trop parfait.
For me, ginger goes along in anything that gets cinnamon and/or nutmeg.
I asked all of the resident witches and they said: gingerbread houses.
Ginger snaps
Fresh ginger root
Ginger-molasses cookies FTW
Now discontinued…smh…Starbuck’s Gingerbread Latte (hot sports opinion: way better than pumpkin spice) but it is the Gin Gins Super Stength blue colored bag
@faxtory I’m not familiar with the “blue colored bag” idiom. The closest I’ve been able to come up with is “the blue pill” (which can be either of two very different references/meanings).
I’m assuming it’s some pop culture reference I’m not getting. Can anybody help me out?
@xobzoo Sometimes a “blue colored bag” is just a blue-colored bag.
@rockblossom Thanks!
So much simpler than I was making it.
All-things-ginger!
Ginger?
At one time, I’d have said Blenheim Ginger Ale - in the bottles with the pink caps. That was the strongest. Somewhere in the past decade, they must have been bought out, because it’s not what it once was.
@werehatrack was one of my favorites too. My stalking revealed they went out of business. Their factory was right behind South of the border.
@werehatrack if they are still around, they don’t distribute to Florida like they used to
@jaybird I bought some in South Carolina last year. I was disappointed.
Our favorite was discontinued. Trader Joe’s used to carry a ginger cereal. I think was something like only clusters or something.
@jaybird That was a good one!
@Euniceandrich @jaybird
Trader Joe’s is so annoying that way!