Continuing Eric's collection

Well, it's been 2 months since the last recipe entry. Although Eric was the adventurous one in the kitchen, I was a pretty good cook when I met him. Eric taught me that recipes are really just guides... In other words, if you want to put a half-cup of chipotle tabasco in your pizza dough, why not? Sometimes these experiments worked; sometimes they didn't. But you never know if Corn Nut-Encrusted Eggplant will work unless you try it, right? (From what I've heard, that one didn't work in the biggest way.) So I've become brave in the kitchen due to Eric's influence. I understand the process of cooking in a way I hadn't before.

Do you have a favorite thing that Eric used to cook? Let me know and I'll look if there is a recipe in Eric's binder. He didn't write recipes down very often; he kept most of them in his head. I tried to get the lowdown on eggplant from him - he was so good with eggplant - but alas! He took the secrets of baba ganoush with him! (If he wrote it down for anyone, please leave a comment for me so I can get in touch with you!)

Eric wanted me to contribute to this site, but both of us were otherwise terribly occupied shortly after he set it up, weren't we? My intention is to continue this collection. As I make recipes we loved together, I'll share them with you. When I discover something new, I'll share that too.

Cheers!