Eating Bitter, Part Two: The Bitter Melon and Me

A poetic name for a lovely dish: Phoenix and Jade with Blossoms. The very first time I tasted a bitter melon was at the home of the couple who were my very first personal chef clients. He was from Bangledesh, and she was from Pakistan, and they both loved bitter melon. One evening, they had […]

The First Supper

The finished dish: Three Pepper Pork Unable to bear another round of eating out, I pushed myself and got the upstairs kitchen mostly unpacked yesterday. I resolved to try the thick-cut boneless butterflied loin pork chop I bought at the Farmer’s Market from Harmony Hollow Farms. Saturday was a blustery, freezing cold day, with wind […]

What a Crock!

So, I bought this crockpot to use during the Chili Cookoff as a warming device. I never really figured I’d cook in it much; I never much liked the way a lot of crockpot recipes turned out back in the day when they had little cutesy mushrooms screen printed on the sides in the ever […]

Keema Sookh: North Indian Home Cooking

A finished pan of keema sookh; this version has green beans and cilantro, but there are many other possible additions to the recipe. My very first personal chef clients were a young couple of computer programmers, one from Bangladesh, and the other from Pakistan. I came about them as clients in a weird way, which […]

Chinese Fast Food

There are some days when I get involved in writing, working or gardening, and I forget that I have to cook dinner until the sun is going down, my stomach is growling and Zak is about to perish from lack of caloric intake. In these times, I am glad that we have a Chinese deli […]

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