"Won't you please, please help me" --The Beatles

[A rare glimpse of our treasure trove. And pay no attention to that enormous spaghetti squash of ours or the glorious cow sponge holder featured in the background, although I will say: the cow sponge holder? One of my most prized possessions. Forget the Lladro, the Wedgewood, the Waterford. Give me the cow. Cows are trendy. Forever trendy. Love the cow.]


Want to know the secret to our success?

Dill weed.

No, I'm not calling you a name.*

Dill weed is (apparently) what we have decided to invest heavily in during tough economic times. Some people invest in gold. Some in stocks. Some in pork bellies.** Not us. We put our savings into a much less lucrative and much less competitive market. We've bought dill weed and plenty of it.

Here's the thing: At some point, one of us said "I'm going to make this recipe and it calls for dill weed" and off we went to the store without even considering the idea that maybe, just maybe, we'd already bought dill weed in the distant past and said nearly full bottle of dill weed was languishing in the back of the spice cabinet, behind the millions of more popular spices and dried herbs. How else to explain three fairly full containers? ARGH!

That's right. Not only did we duplicate, we triplicated.

And that's not all!

We've similarly cornered the market on Ground Double Superfine Mustard, too.***

We now have a lifetime supply of both. So, we're looking for a return on our considerable investment.

Since Suze "Tough Love" Orman says it is a financial waste to not know what you own such that you wind up duplicating (don't tell her we triplicated, I shudder at the volume of wrath she would hurl at us), please forward recipes that call for both of these items and plenty of them. You know, Curried Monkfish with Dill Weed and Mustard or "Mmmm, You Can Really Taste the Dillweed and Mustard" Cheesecake... that sort of thing.

Thanks much!



* Unless, of course, you are a dill weed. Then you deserve it. Dill weed.

** When did the belly get to be the most prized part? I always thought the curlicue tail was a piggy's most delightful asset.

*** Adviser's tip: Stay away from the Ground Single Superfine Mustard. That's just stupid.