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							Sat 21 Feb, 2004 06:23 pm
						
						
					
					
					
						I have bought wonderful, fragrant, fresh  ginger...what next?
					
				 
				
						
														
					
												Cut a couple very thin slices and drop them into a mugful of hot water. Warm your hands and inhale the fragrance as you sip...
If you have a juicer, one of my favorite juice combinations is apples and ginger...
											
					
				 
																									
						
														
					
												I think I am in heaven!!!
											
					
				 
																									
						
														
					
												I love ginger tea. yup, I think I'll make myself a cup. 
I use ginger a lot. In thai or chinese stirfries, or is it stirfry's? none-the less, it's wonderful in stews and baking. 
Just expeiriment.
											
					
				 
																
						
														
					
												Oh, me, I like a few thin slices or equivalent bits of fresh peeled ginger sauteed in a few tablespoons of butter with a bit of fresh salmon or lox (something like 1/8 pound) put in at the end,  If it is lox, it only has to warm; if fresh uncooked salmon bits, then saute a bit, and shut off heat.  (I suppose you can used canned, but pick the mildest you can find..)
Cook a pasta, like farfalle.
Add the drained pasta to the resting pan of salmon and ginger in butter, toss.  Add some torn up leaves of fresh basil (or, oh, a half  teaspoon of dried) and squeeze a half lime or more over the dish. 
 (Don't cook the lime at all.)
I think of this as Lox and Basil, with lime and farfalle.  You'll like it a lot or not be interested at all.  If you like it, go for the very best ingredients.