Often things that are apparently common in the US are hard to find here. Like, I still remember one time I wanted to make some Moroccan inspired stew somebody had linked to on my flist and that used some kind of lemon preserved in salt brine or such, and no regular supermarket had it (though one apparently used to sell it at one point since their online page listed it in principle, only none of their stores had it) nor the Turkish grocery store where I can usually find Middle Eastern stuff, nor the Arabic grocery store I tried, before I finally gave up. I suppose with more effort I might have found it at a different Arabic grocery store, which are fairly common here, but without being sure that it would be available it seemed too much work to try random stores
And I have never noticed tamaraind paste in any of the three regular German grocery stores I use, though if it's truly common in India I expect I could find it in the Indian/Pakistani grocery store I use occasionally for stuff. My problem is more that unless I've come across multiple recipes using something special, more often than not it goes bad on me before I used it all, after going to some effort to find it for that one thing, and that always seems such a waste.
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Date: 2018-12-16 20:34 (UTC)And I have never noticed tamaraind paste in any of the three regular German grocery stores I use, though if it's truly common in India I expect I could find it in the Indian/Pakistani grocery store I use occasionally for stuff. My problem is more that unless I've come across multiple recipes using something special, more often than not it goes bad on me before I used it all, after going to some effort to find it for that one thing, and that always seems such a waste.