I rescued, for posterity's sake, an at least 15 year old, Sam's club sized container of Italian Seasoning from my mother's spice cabinet when we cleaned out her house. I need to throw it away. I may do so tonight.
[CSB]My dad loved black pepper. My mom didn't make anything spicy. So he was constantly tapping that McCormick's Black Pepper tin over his food or using this hand-crank burr coffee grinder with pepper corns in it and shaking them out of the little drawer.
My mom did use a crap-ton of Morton's Nature Seasons on everything (that stuff is, in fact, the bomb). And while it's good, everything tastes sort of the same. I appreciate the fact that she taught me to cook and to love to cook. But I've leveled up in many ways, including in the spice department. My current problem is that my spice cabinet is over-stuffed, and I need to buy better quality spices too. I did buy a hand-crank burr coffee grinder which I use for fresh ground pepper. So there's that.[/CSB]