About a week and a half ago, I used a vanilla bean when making some ice cream (yeah yeah, when the Bunny's away the carrots will play [1] or something like that). I've seen on various television shows [2] that you can dry the used vanilla bean and place it in sugar for a week or so to make vanilla sugar.
Hey, why not?
After I was done with the vanilla bean, I dried it off and shoved it into a contain of sugar in the spice cabinet. Only, I don't think I got it dry enough:
[It's a vanilla bean! A VANILLA BEAN I say! Not some arachnid horror from the cocaine fields of Columbia] [3]
But the sugar smells wonderful [4].
[2] http://www.foodnetwork.com/
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