by Brian | Dec 19, 2014 | Recipes
This salad appears on the cover of Pomegranates & Pine Nuts, the wonderful book by Bethany Kehdy, a book filled with exciting and most colorful recipes. This recipe, with its sprinkling of pomegranate seeds, immediately grabbed Suzen’s attention. Once we...
by Brian | Dec 18, 2014 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Two weeks ago the Throwback Thursday Cookbook was Cold-Weather Cooking by Sarah Leah Chase. Cold-Weather was actually Sarah’s second book. Her first, published in 1987, was the Nantucket Open-House Cookbook. It was true preview cookbook, offering us glimpses...
by Brian | Dec 18, 2014 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
— This post is from the last three years, but I wanted to give new readers a chance for the experience of a lifetime. This perfect eggnog is exceptionally rich and satisfying. Try this once, and you'll never turn back to conventional recipes or that...
by Brian | Dec 17, 2014 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
If you read this blog often, you know I write almost daily about a new cookbook. I leave it to you whether you will buy a particular book, of course, but sometimes I do suggest action. A book by Dorie Greenspan, for example, is destined to be a classic and it is very...
by Brian | Dec 17, 2014 | Recipes
For each of her corporate events — where teams come into our kitchen to cook together — Suzen loves for her guests to begin enjoying food from their first steps. So, as soon as the coats are off, guests are welcomed with appetizers. We serve a very, very...
