by Brian | Feb 8, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews
How do you decide to buy a cookbook? I skim the recipes, of course, looking for what has been included, trying to glean the author’s perspective. I do have a favorite strategy in sizing up a book: I go to the index — there had better be one — and start looking for my...
by Brian | Feb 8, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
I am a butter man. I bake with butter. When I see a recipe that uses oil instead of butter, my first reaction is to keep flipping the pages of that cookbook. Why? Well, probably because I like to eat the batter and I love butter but the idea of eating oil … I...
by Brian | Feb 5, 2010 | Recipes
This week’s blogs have focused on Super Bowl ideas. If you are a football fan, then you now have fuel for a distinctive party. If you hate football, you have some wonderful ways to just have a great and quiet Sunday meal. Here’s a list of this week’s blogs. ...
by Brian | Feb 4, 2010 | Recipes
If I say “salsa” what crosses your mind? To most of us, the “salsa” word immediately pulls up an image of something red, hot, and sitting on a chip. It’s as if Karl Marx were the Chief Salsa maker with the motto: “Salsas of the world, unite!” Thank God for...
by Brian | Feb 3, 2010 | Cookbook Reviews, Recipes
I love crab but it is crab cakes that are the special dish for me. My passion dates from graduate school in Baltimore, the crab cake capital of the world. Crab cakes can be enormously satisfying and always seem to draw “Ahs” at the table, and yet few of us make...
