by Brian | Dec 15, 2016 | Recipes
I first posted this last January. It was cold. It is cold again. Comfort food time. Big time. Enjoy. Author Hillary Davis of French Comfort Food has assembled just the grandest collection of comfort food ideas. This recipe, from the Haute-Savoie Region of the...
by Brian | Dec 15, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
Twenty years ago this little book appeared celebrating the cookie recipes of Sweet Maria’s Bakery in Waterbury, Connecticut. If you drive in the Northeast, you want to avoid Interstate 95, because it is a parking lot. So, many of us have discovered I-84...
by Brian | Dec 14, 2016 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews
How do you write a cookbook review for a tome with over 700 pages? And that, curiously, has only 70 recipes? It’s easy. This is the best cookbook of 2016. One of the best in the past decade. If you have room for only a couple of cookbooks in your life,...
by Brian | Dec 14, 2016 | Recipes
If you ask people how an avocado tastes, the first word that often appears is “smooth.” “Velvet” and “buttery” come close behind. It’s the only food I can think of where “taste” becomes...
by Brian | Dec 13, 2016 | Appetizers, Recipes
I like crab. And I like tropical fruit. And I like salsa. So, this is just my recipe. Here’s a savory salsa that can make a Tostito spin in your mouth. I know, people say crab is sweet. That mango is sweet. Look, sugar is sweet. Crab and mango taste...
