by Brian | Aug 24, 2015 | Recipes
It adds up. You make baked beans once or twice a month. Do that for fifty years and you can righteously claim to have strived for perfection 1000 times or more. It did take me that 1000+ tries but I now state, in full modesty, that these are the best baked bean you...
by Brian | Aug 22, 2015 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
I don’t know why it is, or if you have the same feelings, but some fruit desserts seem very personal to me. A fruit crisp or buckle seems to be my very own private dessert. In the picture at the bottom, the buckle really is private because Rose Levy Beranbaum...
by Brian | Aug 21, 2015 | Recipes
That top picture may remind you of something you’ve seen in the produce section of your grocery store: a bag of smallish potatoes with a rainbow of colors. What to do with them if you take them home? You cannot bake them and stuff with sour cream, butter, and...
by Brian | Aug 20, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Nancy Baggett has a love affair with cookies. Somewhere in my collection, I do have my copy of The International Cookie Cookbook form 1988. And I know I have Simply Sensational Cookies form 2012. Somewhere. What I do have in my hand now is The All-American Cookie Book...
by Brian | Aug 20, 2015 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
Peach flavor is actually complicated. It can be very intense and yet there is an underlying subtlety that must be protected. Take the recipes for peach daiquiri. My recipe below uses peaches and just peaches. But other recipes call for peach liqueur, alone or in team...
