by Brian | Mar 12, 2016 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
How you gonna spend the weekend? The calendar says that winter is almost gone. Here in the Catskill Mountains, winter really never came. Our driveway was plowed once. We never had enough snow to use our snowshoes. Suzen is smiling. Not a winter girl much anymore. More...
by Brian | Mar 11, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
I recently posted a review of Gin: The Manual by Dave Broom, a writer and mixologist of renown. I actually had the pleasure of hearing his expertise engagingly presented in his Scottish accent here in New York City. The loves gin and he can digress for hours on how...
by Brian | Mar 11, 2016 | Recipes
Last week I did a TBT cookbook review of Rosa’s New Mexican Table by Roberto Santibanez. This picture is in the book and I cannot take my eyes off it. I love trout. Pan-fried trout. Now to see baked trout nestled amidst onion and mushrooms and chiles and epizote is to...
![TBT Recipe: Coffee-Walnut Layer Cake [okay, I used pecans!]](https://cookingbythebook.com//wp-content/uploads/2016/03/2013_03_09_0634-700x486.jpg)
by Brian | Mar 10, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes, TBT
I first posted this recipe three years ago. And once a year or so, Suzi and I make this. For ourselves or for a dinner party. Totally rich to your eye and then to your mouth, it's a classic winner. So darned good. I took one look at this cake, in Retro Cakes and...
by Brian | Mar 10, 2016 | Uncategorized
Suzi was baking this weekend. Here’s what she fashioned, the world’s best cheese roll, from this exceptional book: And as I looked at this lovely book, published in 2003, I asked myself when had I published a cookbook review. I checked this...
