by Brian | Jul 4, 2014 | Recipes
You may have noticed food costs rising. I now use my cell phone to take pictures of what I am not going to have and my calculator to figure out how much my half-filled shopping cart is going to dent me for. There are ways to absorb the cost spiral. Suzen and I love...
by Brian | Jul 3, 2014 | Recipes
This post is appearing at the demand of my wife, Suzen Mines-O’Rourke. Things were going fine until she read this morning’s first post. “Butterscotch sauce? You just did malted milk chocolate sauce yesterday? What is wrong with you? People want a balance of recipes on...
by Brian | Jul 3, 2014 | Cookbook Review
Yes, at the very top of the picture you’ll see some red tags that I did not quite crop out. When you get your copy of Payard Desserts, you’ll have plenty of stickies, too. Payard Desserts is a beautifully serious and yet wonderfully practical book, just...
by Brian | Jul 2, 2014 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
Early in the 1900s, in Switzerland some people made a product from egg [Latin ovum] and malt. They called it Ovomaltine and you mixed it with milk and drank it. When the product was exported in 1909 to Great Britain, someone made a spelling mistake on the trademark...
by Brian | Jul 2, 2014 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Lucinda Scala Quinn is married with three sons. Along the way, she’s made a few observations: Men eat differently from women They eat more They eat constantly They make messes but never seem to notice “What’s for dinner?” is the central...
