It’s not like I really missed my calling: I am a software engineer. Or maybe I should have gone on in college to become a professor of classical or French literature, but I just didn’t do that. Yet I’ve always loved to cook. I certainly can’t oil-paint and, despite half a dozen saxophones, clarinets, oboes and guitars in the closet, I’m a grossly incompetent musician. But, what I can do is cook. And it’s a fulfilling calling because there’s no lack of willing on-lookers: everyone’s up for enjoying food most of the time. So, here’s my recipe site.

Despite the .com of my domain name, this is not a commercial website. If you wish to contact me, I can be reached by clicking on my picture at the right. So far, I have always answered my mail.

All recipes are my own unless otherwise noted. For the most part, I go to the trouble to list only recipes that I have tried, made successfully, or am in the midst of experimenting upon. I add to these recipes at an average rate of 2-3 per month. I mostly cook from ingredient lists rather than actual recipes, but I try to turn my experience into a recipe for the purposes of this site.

On my site you will find breads and quick-breads, main courses and side dishes, barbecue, desserts, chocolate-making, seasonal dishes, South of the Border, Indian and Far Eastern, plus a section on principles, tools and techniques. A few recipes are illustrated, most with my own pictures, but others with ones I’ve ripped off from the Internet when more convenient.