Any ideas for how to use ginger root?

my roomie cuts up small peices & puts it in soups & stuff my client likes the powder in stir fry

I like to add grated ginger to veggie stir fry with soy sauce and garlic. You can also use it to make gingerbread cake, gingerbread or oatmeal cookies, or gingersnaps. It works well with peach and pear recipes too.

you can cook chicken and fish with ginger root. http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=59495 and a lot more from this site http://www.cooks.com/rec/search?q=ginger+

Add thinly sliced ginger root to any vegetables you cook, its very healthy and tastes delicious too. grated ginger goes very well in lemonade too. Ginger root has a lot of medicinal qualities too, one of them being it gives relief in common cold. Grate some ginger root and mix it with honey and eat a spoonful before going to bed, its effective on sore throat and cough.

Stir fry some veggies and meat, season them with soy sauce, and some of your ginger, grated. :]

Ginger fried rice is yummy, served with a dark miso soup or as a side dish with greens and fish or beef... maybe game. Basically; fry a small handful of thinly sliced carrots and mushrooms in a skillet/fryingpan. Add some mirin and then saute some chopped spring onions. Add a good chunk (3cm to ever 350g cooked rice) of ginger, peeled and finely chopped and shoyu. Add 350g of cooked rice (any will do, recipe calls for brown but I prefer white), mix thoroughly, cover and cook for 1-2 minutes. Just finely chop some ginger and throw into soups and stews, stirfries... goes great on braised beef, believe it or not. You can make a tincture and keep it in the fridge to use at a later date, or pickle in vinegar (after briefly pressing in salt) or a good olive oil. You could even dry it yourself in an airing cupboard (though slicing it first is easier than doing a whole root). Ginger coffee is a favourite of a guy I work with (well, ginger cappuccino... but it has a 50/50 chance of curdling). Finely chop ginger, add to coffee. About half a teaspoon to each teaspoon of coffee or each espresso shot. Just experiment! lol