by Brian | Jul 15, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
I was driving back home on Sunday afternoon and got to the point east of Boiceville where the road starts down a long hill, one where the trees fall away faster than the road. So for a couple of hundred feet, you have “The View.” There are three ridgelines...
by Brian | Jul 15, 2014 | Cookbook Review
In the past few days I’ve blogged about ice cream bases using egg yolks and then what to do with the left over egg whites. My meringue guidebook is Meringue by Linda K. Jackson and Jennifer Evans Gardner. You can find a review of that book and five recipes by...
by Brian | Jul 14, 2014 | Recipes
Pride is not necessarily a sin. You can be proud of that child making the honor roll. Or proud your college team had a winning season after six straight years of … Well, you understand. The greatest pride that Suzen and I have is when we make dish and then just...
by Brian | Jul 13, 2014 | Recipes
First impressions can be important. The first time I ate eggplant, the taste was bitter and I was flossing strings out of my teeth for days. I was not just unimpressed. I was thoroughly disgusted. Suzen’s approach to changing my attitude is, well, direct....
by Brian | Jul 12, 2014 | Recipes
July is National Baked Beans Month. And you thought Congress never did anything. Virgil’s is the landmark barbecue joint in Times Square in New York City. First authentic Southern barbecue in the city. Founded in 1994, the firm has just published its first...
