recipes

  • We all go nuts…

    We all go nuts…

    I’m preparing multiple special events for next week (breakfasts and dinners). For two days this week that has meant making bofrot (pronounced “boh-froot”), a Ghanian donut. Well, in my mind they’re a donut. Other chefs have called them fritters, dough balls, and beignet. Call them what you will, I’m still the guy making a little

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  • Harvest

    Harvest

    This is the first week we’ve been able to harvest and use our tarragon. We’ve been growing this particular herb now for 2 years. It dies down in winter to become a wooden tangle if not trimmed back. In the spring and summer it grows aggressively, like anything bittersweet should. I never get tired of

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  • All that I touch, all that I see…

    Valentine’s day’s stream of thoughts, clock-wise: Notes for strawberry chocolate pie, A tiny ‘zilla from the Liz, Challah cross-section, I am missing the Liz, Tiny chocolate hearts, Delivery in Ashland.

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  • Last month’s project was a chocolate pie dough. the purpose, of course, was to serve as the base for my Valentine’s day pie which I’m selling now through pre-orders. I didn’t know what flavor the pie would be back in January – just that the dough was going to be chocolate. In a perfect world

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