by Brian | Aug 7, 2015 | Recipes
Most of us love chicken. Well, we eat chicken and we do privately often long for something exceptional. Chicken can be boring, even roasted chicken. Okay, particularly roasted chicken. Yesterday I did a cookbook review of The Arrows Cookbook from the famed [and now...
by Brian | Aug 6, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Have you ever had this thing you were going to do, but you didn’t and then you discover it is now too late? Suzen and I have used The Arrows Cookbook since it was published in 2003. And last week, in Maine, we decided we would stop stalling and finally...
by Brian | Aug 6, 2015 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
When I made these, I had every intention of using them as garnish for cocktails. But they sat there, in that bag, on the shelf just to my right. I nibbled. I admit it. I nibbled away and soon they were gone. And soon, there will be more. I don’t blog about candy...
by Brian | Aug 5, 2015 | Recipes
The book that keeps on giving. 1000 Italian Recipes by Michele Scicolone has lots of, well 1000, recipes. You probably don’t like broccoli rabe. I never did. If served it, I would eat it to be polite, but, jeez, that flavor is so overpoweringly intense! Here,...
by Brian | Aug 4, 2015 | Recipes
Suzen buys bell peppers by the crate. Each week one or two hundred people enter our kitchen for hands-on cooking events. For appetizers, for ingredients in other dishes, peppers abound in our kitchen. Recipes for roasting even bell peppers often call for heating...
