by Brian | Dec 30, 2016 | Recipes
This is a long week sandwiched between holidays on the Sundays at either end. It’s a busy time and one where we want to share grand food with friends and families. We had this dish for Christmas Eve and I heartily recommend it for any day during the rest of...
by Brian | Dec 29, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Egg whites. We always seem to have some around, especially if you are making ice cream and have those yolks consumed in your fabulous dessert. What to do with the whites? There are books on meringue, of course, but this one, from 2005, lets those egg whites be...
by Brian | Dec 23, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Diana Henry’s newest book will send you dashing off to the grocery store. You can be home in an hour, with some veggies and protein, perhaps a fish or a chicken. Time to break open the spice rack, find those onions, and grab your knife. Simple to Diana means...
by Brian | Dec 23, 2016 | Dessert Digest, Recipes
For this holiday season, how about a very different dessert from a place that is always, or almost always, cold. Here is a Honey Cake with Orange Buttercream recipe from Scandinavian Baking by Trine Hahnemann. It’s a lovely book filled with recipes from a...
by Brian | Dec 22, 2016 | Uncategorized
I first posted this recipe four years ago, and it is one Suzen and I have enjoyed on a regular basis ever since. For your holiday table, sweet potatoes just have to appear somehow, someway. This is The Way. And if you have yet to settle on a sweet potato recipe then...
