I have this ongoing internal struggle going on between my urge to buy the best and my dislike of paying more than I have to for something that can be had more cheaply for the same quality. There are, however, some things that I'd rather have less- or none-of than get cheaply, and vanilla has become one of them. With vanilla extracts, you get what you pay for and once you've had the good stuff there's no going back to crap the supermarkets sell (and I'm not even going to talk about the excrescence that is imitation vanilla). My indulgence of choice is
Madagascar Bourbon Pure Vanilla by Nielsen-Massey
I'm blogging about this because I've run out and I need to remind myself to get some more after I take out a second mortgage. It's not cheap but oh! readers...readers it's sublime stuff and really, don't you deserve a bit of sublime in your life?