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Cookbook Review: Cookies & Cream by Tessa Arias

Cookbook Review: Cookies & Cream by Tessa Arias

  1945. Lots of things happened. I was born. World War II ended. The atomic bomb was tested and used. And Jerry Newberg in Pittsburg invented something. He worked at the old Forbes field where the Pirates played in air heavy with pollution. In that steel city,...
Pickled Carrots with Dill, Round 2

Pickled Carrots with Dill, Round 2

I posted this recipe last year. I'm doing it again. There's a reason for this. Suzen and I have a certain disease. Perhaps you do too. Can't-get-to-the-next-page-in-the-cookbook  is a disease, well maybe a syndrome, that affects many of us cookbook...
Very Sticky and Very Smokey Pork Ribs with Bourbon Glaze

Very Sticky and Very Smokey Pork Ribs with Bourbon Glaze

I’ve mentioned the new book Smoke & Spice by Valerie Aikman-Smith in a previous post. I enjoy the book’s presentation with its focus on sauces and seasonings rather than the meat. Everyone secretly eats BBQ for the sauce. Yes, yes you do. Don’t deny the truth...
Brian’s Blueberry Mojito

Brian’s Blueberry Mojito

Last year was not a good one for our mint. It was late coming up, the stalks had few leaves, and the leaves were perforated by gobbling insects that I never saw. Or tasted. To my knowledge. This year, all that rain and now intense heat have given us a mint forest. The...