Spotted great-looking lime leaves in abundance today at the Broadway Supermarket. I bought a package, even though I have a package in the freezer, because you never know! Also, they had douban jiang in stock, which seems to make but random appearances, as well as gorgeous packages of fully ripe, red Thai chiles. if you're running low on any of the foregoing, you should go ASAP.

Broadway Supermarket
4879 N. Broadway, Chicago
773.334.3838

just to add another data point, with Golden Pacific being a bit hit and miss, i've found Tai Nam to be a rather consistent source of keffir lime leaves

For those southwest, you can find kaffir lime leaves at Bangkok Oriental Grocery, as well. At least they had them there last week. I shop here once every month or two, and I've never had trouble finding them here.

Bangkok Oriental Grocery
7430 S Harlem Ave
Bridgeview, IL 60455

golden pacific was well stocked last evening

made a riff on aroy's chou-chi ground pork

FYI Fresh Farms has been well stocked on my past couple visits.

Knocked out a formidable beef rendang this weekend.

Is that Fresh Farms niles?

yes, the touhy location, my bad

If you ever just need a few and you're convenient to the NW burbs you can always hit me up: I only prune my tree for culinary purposes.

Can you dry Kaffir leaves or do they need to be frozen? I recently found an excellent source for a good number of fresh Asian herbs in Phoenix. However, for us, it is a lot easier to dry (in the hot sun) than to freeze.

jlawrence01 wrote:Can you dry Kaffir leaves or do they need to be frozen? I recently found an excellent source for a good number of fresh Asian herbs in Phoenix. However, for us, it is a lot easier to dry (in the hot sun) than to freeze.

They will lose a lot of their aroma if you dry them.

jlawrence01 wrote:Can you dry Kaffir leaves or do they need to be frozen?

They keep quite well frozen, too: the leaves are sturdy enough that they don't lose much in the freezer even after months. Before I got the tree, I'd keep a ziplock with the bulk of a foam tray full, and it continued to be quite usable until visible freezer burn showed. It helps that you seldom use them whole unless you're going to pull them out again, like bay leaves.