Like everything Tom Douglas touches, his most recent cookbook is fast turning to gold as bakers swoop it up to recreate a peanut butter cookie that Nora Ephron termed "the greatest cookie ever, ever, ever."
The kids and I chop the potent onion and garlic from the local Farmer's Market. There is definitely a difference between mass produced and local produce. The cilantro was jalapeno green, wet and damply alive like flora in a rainforest.
This year, in keeping with the tenor of the times, I am making a recipe I got from the Internet, or, to be more exact, from the monthly email newslett...