by Brian | Jun 17, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Tomatoes are my favorite veggie. And almost my favorite fruit: nothing can best strawberries. Oh, are tomatoes fruits or veggies? Technically fruits because the tomato part we eat has seeds and develops from a flower. A vegetable is a plant part: a root, a stem or a...
by Brian | Jun 16, 2015 | Recipes
In the lovely new book Clodagh’s Irish Kitchen, you will tour the Irish landscape and discover how some rather uncommon ingredients can make their way to your table. Like nettles. Clodagh McKenna calls gnocchi “Irish dumplings” because they use...
by Brian | Jun 15, 2015 | Recipes
Is it possible to look at that picture and not begin cooking? Suzen and I succumbed in a heartbeat. This picture is from the book The Islands of Greece. We did make the dish and loved every bite of it, that day and the next. I took a picture, too, but mine does not...
by Brian | Jun 15, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
It’s summer and time for the release of cookbooks that offer lighter, healthier dishes. And dishes that can be filled with surprise in just a matter of minutes. The Lebanese Cookbook by Hussien Dekmak was just published and is a very welcome summer addition....
by Brian | Jun 14, 2015 | Recipes
Summer is upon us. The corn is “fresh” now from Florida but soon, pretty soon the fresh corn in our stores will be local. It is time to search for you copy of I Love Corn by Lisa Skye [2012]. Oh, you don’t have a copy yet? You want one, you really...
