by Brian | Nov 23, 2015 | Holidays, Recipes, Thanksgiving
Ah, yes. That terrible last act of Thanksgiving night. The meal is over. Everyone is resting. Maybe having another piece of pie. Watching the third and final football game. And there you are. In the kitchen finishing off that turkey. It’s a tedious job and...
by Brian | Nov 22, 2015 | Recipes
Fall is the time for exploiting all the wonderful flavors of squash and pumpkins, and — pumpkin pie aside of course — no dish better uses this flavor succulence than soup. It can be very astonishing to enjoy a great bowl of soup. A great bowl, that is....
by Brian | Nov 21, 2015 | Recipes
Do you need a dish for your leftover Thanksgiving turkey? Read on. Ignore the chicken part and just use that turkey meat, white or dark. I recently reviewed a remarkable book, Enchiladas by Cappy Lawton and Chris Waters Dunn. This is the first dish Suzen and I...
by Brian | Nov 20, 2015 | Recipes, Thanksgiving
Remember when you used to shop on Wednesday for Thanksgiving and cook just on Thursday. Suzi and I have departed from that routine. It’s too hard. First of all, the grocery stores on Wednesday are a zoo, assuming you can find a place to park. And making the...
by Brian | Nov 20, 2015 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
And now there are three. In previous posts here I have covered books devoted to Bitters [by Brad Parsons] and Shrubs [by Michael Dietsch]. Now we have Bitters and Shrub Syrup Cocktails by Warren Bobrow, the accomplished author of Apothecary Cocktails and Whiskey...
