by Brian | Jan 15, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Recipes, Syrups, Techniques
Treasure. Can I interest you in some treasure? And a little mystery and surely what seems like magic. This week’s Throwback Thursday cookbook review is a work of genius from 1984. Arto Der Haroutunian was born in Aleppo, Syria in 1940. His parents were Armenian...
by Brian | Jan 15, 2015 | Recipes
Rajas translates as “strips” and you can see just that in the picture: a maze-like tangle of onion and poblano strips cooked into an awesome flavor extravaganza. You can eat the rajas as a side dish, or put them into scrambled eggs, in salads, atop steak...
by Brian | Jan 14, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, farm to table
If you were searching for your own personal farmer, what’s the most important characteristic? Set aside the issues of being green and local, don’t focus on GMO. The key factor is that the farmer should have intimate knowledge about the destiny of his...
by Brian | Jan 14, 2015 | Recipes, Techniques
For multiple reasons, including price and healthy eating issues, beef consumption is down, which may be bad for ranchers but is probably good for the cows. Politics and culinary classifications aside, there is something marvelous about beef. The smell, the color, the...
by Brian | Jan 13, 2015 | Cooking Classes, Cooking Events, Recipes
Okay, you are going to object to the phrase “onion marmalade” because you make marmalade with oranges, which is why you technically say “orange marmalade.” I am happy to say that you are wrong. By centuries. The very, very first marmalade was...
