Recipes

Today I am celebrating my mothers birthday, albeit with a painful back condition, a son must pay respect to the women who inspired his becoming a cook! This cake was my sister's recipe and I thought it appropriate to make it for my mom today. My sister Mimi who passed...

  Quark? My boss asks as he looks at the menu I offer him for a dinner party.He assumes it's a computer program or some foreign substance he can't pronounce so I educate him to the fact that there is a German cheese that makes a sublime tasting cheesecake instead of...

Flavors are reflections of things or places we have visited. One of my frequent flavors have been in Basel Switzerland, that being the Basel Läckerli. This simple confection resembling a glazed roof tile has two versions,one a city the other the countryside.  I...

Last week while laboring on some lamb racks an annoying waiter with a penchant for opera, (and they sure are annoying aren't they!) which whenever entering the kitchen asks if anybody speaks English, this to a predominantly Latino crew excluding me and he is Italian!...

As you may have guessed I love plums, my sisters orchard is filled with four varieties including those elusive mirabelles,quetsche, and hmmm I don't remember the others? That must be because there also turned into some fierce schnapps! I made some plum crumble which I...

As I didn't get much practice in the lamination of dough in school, I have over the years spent some quiet 3 am mornings layering flour and butter to make some good, but mostly crappy renditions of the classics! Until my trip to Bethesda Wales, where Dan Lepard...