by Brian | Jul 18, 2014 | Recipes
It’s a Friday in July. The odds are that today or tomorrow or Sunday, you’ll buy summer corn, sweetening with each week of additional sun. And then you’ll grill or boil or broil or microwave those ears for one or more weekend meals. Salt and...
by Brian | Jul 17, 2014 | Recipes
Sometimes you have to fry. I know, it can create a mess and the aroma lingers and no one wants to clean up that mess. Still, there are dishes where there is no option but boiling oil. If the payoff, the taste, is good enough, then all that effort will be...
by Brian | Jul 17, 2014 | Cookbook Review
Love Thai food? Want to experiment at home? Demand authenticity? Then Pok Pok is essential. If you had met Andy Ricker 15 years ago and asked him what he did, his story would have seemed unusual, no, exotic. He was living in Portland, Oregon and painting houses part...
by Brian | Jul 16, 2014 | Cookbook Review, Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
You’ve heard this story before. Man in Britain loves food. Not a professional. Cooks for friends, dabbles in cooking parties. Then a cooking stall at a fair – hardest work of his life. Then a real place, brick and mortar. And a cookbook: Death by...
by Brian | Jul 16, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
This is supposed to be a blog for Brian’s Cucumber Lemonade #2, following yesterday’s #1. I got a little side tracked. I was looked for 6 lemons and found only 3, but I had a lime and 2 oranges. So, this drink is not “lemonady” at all....
