by Brian | Apr 18, 2014 | Recipes
You’re about to make a dip. What are you going to use. Onion soup mix in sour cream? Please, take a moment. Look at the post “Not Your Mother’s Onion Dip from Diane Morgan” published on April 17, 2014. There the base is sour cream but also mayo with some...
by Brian | Apr 17, 2014 | Recipes
It’s mid-April. There is the chance that there will be no more snow. Time for shorts. Time for dips. Oh, Suzen has just informed me that the picture above is of kolrabi, not onions. It’s a pretty picture. Pretend they are red onions. Do not proceed with...
by Brian | Apr 16, 2014 | Recipes
The picture shows a red onion because I like red onions. I always put red onions in potato salad. How can it be potato salad without one? Actually, this recipe from Gale Gand’s new Lunch present us with a very different potato salad, and a delicious one at that. Here...
by Brian | Apr 15, 2014 | Cooking Classes
They are not the same. Yes, you can substitute one for the other, but you pay a price in culinary consequences. You can make faux crème fraîche, but it’s faux, and you really should journey to your store. The two graphics above provide some background....
by Brian | Apr 14, 2014 | Recipes
Yesterday’s post featured Cinnamon Pecans. And a picture of two others treats, Honey Candied Walnuts and Crispy Roasted Chickpeas. That’s them pictured again in the two spoon-sized portions above. The walnuts, from Alice Waters, are divine on their own...
