by Brian | Oct 9, 2014 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
You may very well have a Ken Haedrich book sitting on your shelves. If you don’t, you probably want to. Pie and Apple Pie were published in 2011 and already are classic baking books. Ken’s list of books at Amazon is pages long. And buried there is a...
by Brian | Oct 9, 2014 | Dessert Digest
This recipe comes from a book titled Pies, Glorious Pies. The book has several lovely pastry recipes, all shown with a sequence of photos to guide you from flour to dough. Yes, pastry making is something that can trigger high anxiety. I can bake a cake or make a...
by Brian | Oct 8, 2014 | Recipes
This recipe comes from a book titled Pies, Glorious Pies and glorious is what it is. Author Maxine Clark invented this dish for Christmas almost 20 years ago using her Scottish savory pie heritage. Suzen and I spent an afternoon quietly making the pie, decorating it,...
by Brian | Oct 7, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Yesterday I posted a cookbook review for Skinny Sippers, a volume of cocktail recipes with a twist [no pun intended]. Each of the recipes in Skinny Sippers gives you a lovely cocktail in under 150 calories. The recipes are dotted with ideas for using fruit, fruit and...
by Brian | Oct 7, 2014 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
I am not a proponent of violence, so I do ask this question with some trepidation. Who makes the best pies? There are regional rivalries that are sure to be stirred at the mention of “pie” and “best.” I recently posted a review of Southern...
