by Brian | Apr 30, 2012 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Full disclosure: we have not made this cake yet, but we sure are this coming weekend. We have a birthday party where there will be plenty of kids and lots of adults. The kids get a traditional birthday cake with equally high layers of cake and frosting. We will be...
by Brian | Apr 29, 2012 | News
Brooklyn Soda Works is a brand new firm with a flotilla of ideas. They create artisanal carbonated juices employing only fresh squeezed juices and minimal amounts of cane sugar. Suzen and I met them today, Sunday, at the upscalel New Amsterdam...
by Brian | Apr 28, 2012 | Recipes
I like wings. No, I love wings. There is a place close by to us in Manhattan, Walkers, that is a classic New York pub. It opened the year we moved to Tribeca. Great wings with fire and crispness, regrettably available only at dinner time. We’ve been complaining about...
by Brian | Apr 26, 2012 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I was headed out to get ingredients to make margaritas. “Can you make sugar syrup?” I politely asked my wife. “Oh, good God, buy some agave,” Suzen said with force. I don’t think this was her finest day, but it turned out to be so fortuitous. First, I did buy agave...
by Brian | Apr 24, 2012 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
Ah, lemon bars. No other cookie is so sure to disappoint. Remember that warning song from Peter, Paul, and Mary: “But the fruit of the poor lemon tree is impossible to eat.” If not impossible, then distinctly unpleasant. Lemon bars come to you usually dry to...
