Recipes

I’d heard about my oldest friend Betsy’s other best friend, Richard, for years before I met him in person last weekend. I traveled from Boston to Durham, NC, and Richard from Kansas, for a party Betsy and her husband Tom were hosting.  Richard is the most skilled cook I ever met; he chops vegetables like…

COCOA PODS GROWING ON THE TREE Like many people today, my life is really busy with kids, work, house, garden, dogs, etc. I like to cook and I do quite a bit of it. My refrigerator is always filled with ingredients and left-overs. But you can have a full refrigerator, and still need to find…

Ghee is a totally delicious butter which has been clarified, which means that the milk solids have been removed, and what remains is pure butter fat. It posseses a unique, nutty, toasted carmel-like flavor, and creates a heavenly aroma when you prepare it. For many thousands of years, it has been a central ingredient in…