by Brian | Oct 28, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
Earlier this week, I review the brilliant new cookie book from Dorie Greenspan: Dorie’s Cookies. And I’ve posted one recipe for her Melody Cookies, a thin chocolate wafer topped with sugar sprinkles. The first chapter of Dorie’s massive book is...
by Brian | Oct 27, 2016 | TBT
In a word, this dish is a surprise, a wonderful surprise. I first posted it two years ago. It's going to be freezing here tonight, which only makes sense since the World Series just began and the baseball is so much better when the weather is cold and the ball...
by Brian | Oct 26, 2016 | Cookie Jar, Recipes
In her newest book, Dorie’s Cookies, Dorie Greenspan gives us 300 incredible recipes that will have you baking for months. I share something with Dorie: an obsession for cookies, especially old classics. In this case, Dorie remembers a Nabisco cookie that...
by Brian | Oct 25, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Ten. The number. 10. It means so much to us. Something is a “ten.” An Olympic gynmist srives for a perfect 10. We have the Ten Commandments. And now we have the 10th cookbook by Dorie Greenspan. Dorie of Around My French Table fame. Of Baking...
by Brian | Oct 25, 2016 | Dedicated Drinker's Diary, Recipes
My wife hates ginger. My wife loves ginger. I’m perpetually confused about the circumstance under which she will like a “ginger something.” My approach? I don’t tell her. I let her taste and if she makes a face, I head for another room. She...
