by Brian | Jun 13, 2014 | Cookie Jar, Dessert Digest, Recipes
Cookies are part of our lives. Almost from the start. You don’t eat cookies, now, at all? Ever? What about when you were teething decades ago? You got a cookie/cracker to gnaw on. There were animal crackers with milk at school. And everybody has at least one...
by Brian | Jun 12, 2014 | News
I hate the false superstitions that surround Friday the 13th. I find it all stupid and ridiculous and I get angry and then depressed. That's why I am not going out of my house today. Not even to Starbucks. No, I am on superstition strike. Was that lightening? Is...
by Brian | Jun 12, 2014 | Recipes
From The Southern Po’Boy Cookbook comes this shrimp po’boy that commands you have a beer in your left hand [or right, but somewhere]. As po’boys go, this one is simple to prepare and not terribly gooey, but it is rich in flavor. Well, most correctly, it is rich in...
by Brian | Jun 11, 2014 | Cookbook Review
Sherri Brook Vinton is an expert in two things: preserving foods in wonderful recipes and showing you had to do it yourself at home. She knows the complex chemistry of preserving, for sure, but has this grace to communicate how to successfully preserve at home — and...
by Brian | Jun 11, 2014 | Recipes
I remember my first gazpacho recipe. It was a long time ago and I found myself, for the usual reasons, suddenly living alone with no one else around to cook for me. I had gone about a week at this new branch of life and it was rapidly dawning on me that I would not...
