Basic recipe collection

Butter fluffy and light as a feather. Hundreds (700+ actually) layers of butter and flour create this classic and very useful French pastry

Gluten Free Chocolate Cake recipe

Basic Apricot Glaze recipe

DASHI STOCK is Japanese clear soup stock. There are four types made from kelp, dried bonito, shitake mushroom, or dried fish. Dashi stock is the secret of Japanese cooking. To keep this strictly vegetarian, I omit the dried bonito flakes and substitute with soy bean sprouts and or mushrooms.

Beef Stock recipe

When you don't have 4 hours or more to make chicken broth use inexpensive chicken legs to make this rich broth along with cooked chicken for use in other recipes.

Excellent as a cold remedy and as a starter to an Indian meal.

San Francisco chefs

A basic muffin mix, great plain or dress it up with fruit or gasp... chocolate chips.