• Recipes

    Butter Chicken

    This Butter Chicken recipe is a wonder. The perfect mix of salty-sweet and spice, I’d recommend upping any spice that you like. I often put twice as much of just about everything, and it works out just fine. I like to say that this recipe is better than your mom’s Butter Chicken, but considering that 70% of the people I know are of Irish descent, that’s not much of a challenge (bless their hearts, but the Irish aren’t known for their deft use of spices). Let’s just go with the idea that this is pretty damn good, and that all of the people I’ve made it for ask for the…

  • Canning and Preserving,  Recipes

    Mango Chutney

    About a week ago, I was grocery shopping and saw a flat of mangoes for $3.  It was too good to turn down, but then I had a flat of swiftly-ripening mangoes kicking around my kitchen.  So I took a look online at a bunch of recipes for canning mango chutney, combined a few, modified them to suit my own tastes, and came up with a mango chutney I’m pretty happy with. It’s a dead-simple recipe that would be a good one for first-timers, as it’s not too fussy and doesn’t take a lot o.  Just remember to wash everything in hot, soapy water, and let everything air-dry – that’s…