Stories

Music and Spice

A friend (Bruce) asked me one day to design a five spice blend for a piece of music he wanted to write.  Not Chinese five spice, but a completely different blend. The idea was that I would also assign an instrument to a particular spice. Well, it sounded like fun, and I though about it for a while.  I decided to call it BK five spice (the friends initials who commissioned it) and it ended up as tarragon, basil, fennel seed,  rosemary and lavender.  It’s a nice light pleasant blend that works well on lighter meats, especially whitefish and is enhanced nicely by lemon juice.

JelloThon!

Long long ago, I was invited to a yearly event by a friend where 10 or 20 people got together and had to come up with dishes made with gelatin, agar, pectin . There were the 50’s abominations of fruit or veggies (like green peas! yucch!) jiggling in a green, pink, or orange mold, some fun little lemon things that looked like baby lemons, and then to lube up the mood, LOTS of jello shots of various flavors.