well, i never heard of browning the bud before the actual cooking begins and in fact most recipes specifically call for using as low of a heat setting as possible to allow for simmering. most recipes call for cannabutter too and not cooking the greenery into the food (it feels like chewing on sand and not very tasty). here's a link to a current thread going on at marihemp about different recipes and their benefits along with links to other sites with recipes (i'm kinda surprised this site has yet to open a room for the cannabis culinary arts). a quick google on 'cooking with cannabis' will bring up a shitload of more sites to visit too...

http://boards.marihemp.com/boards/msg22x153543.shtml