by Brian | Jun 11, 2015 | Recipes
This is a very clever idea from A Taste of Cowboy Kent Rollins. So clever, in fact, that I’m still wondering why I never thought of this. Most of us love baked beans as a substantial side dish for a comfort-food dinner. Here Kent takes us to the now-obvious next...
by Brian | Jun 10, 2015 | Recipes
In My Perfect Pantry, Geoffrey Zakarian enables you to forge wonderful, full flavored dishes using basic pantry ingredients. He has a list of 50 items to be employed in appetizers, side dishes, main courses and desserts. In this deliciously appealing recipe, the basic...
by Brian | Jun 10, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
It's summer. Where is that rum? And the pineapple? The names Jules Bergeron [12/10/1902-10/11/1984] and Ernest Raymond Beaumont Gantt [2/22/1907-6/7/1989] may not be familiar to you. But you may well have been in one of their restaurants and you must have had one...
by Brian | Jun 10, 2015 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
For Father’s Day, master mixologist Cody Goldstein of The Upholstery Store in New York City has yet another suggestion for that important Sunday. This drink actually serves a double purpose. First, it does provide an inspired cocktail that you will find sublime....
by Brian | Jun 9, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Breakfast. What images pass through your mind? A stack of pancakes inundated by a flood of maple syrup with islands of melting butter and a barrier of crispy bacon sitting off to the side? A frittata, steaming and pouring out with the aroma of peppers and onion? A cup...
