A Working Recipe Collection
Developed over many batches. Written down honestly.
Sauces, cakes, jellies, and the occasional whole bird. I cook by weight, rarely nail it the first time, and photograph the whole mess along the way. The failures are in here too, because that is usually where the recipe actually got good.
10 recipes
1 pepper program
made by hand
Sauces & Preserves
Smoked habanero and blueberry. More flavor than fire.
Peach and Carolina reaper, cobbler-sweet with a serious back end.
Raspberry pepper jelly, plus a raspberry, lime, and mint variant.
Rustic pear and habanero, lifted with fresh ginger. Medium-hot to hot.
Sweets & Bakes
Pumpkin, bourbon pecan goo, brown butter. A Boston pie rebuilt as a cake.
A big strawberry reduction, baked thin and stacked tall.
White chocolate, peppermint, and mocha, layered for Christmas.
Sticky toffee pudding, reworked into an enriched cinnamon bun.
An Elvis birthday cake: peanut butter, banana, and dark chocolate, six layers tall.
From the Stovetop