by Brian | Mar 6, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes, Uncategorized
Three years ago Alice Medrich wrote a key book: Flour Flavors. In this volume she offers ways to uses flour alternatives, either as a complete substitute or as add-ins to create a flavor evolution. She presents recipes with teff, buckwheat, sorghum, rice flour and...
by Brian | Mar 5, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
I cannot image two veggies more distinct than cucumbers and radishes. Cucumbers are sweet and soothing. Radishes can wake the dead. Both have crunch it is true, but the cucumbers more quickly succumb to your bite. Radishes resist to the bitter end. Pun...
by Brian | Mar 4, 2017 | Recipes, Uncategorized
Okay. Let’s start with the word: Spatchcock. It can seem a bit terrifying. We believe it is Irish in origin and rather recent, just 18th Century. A spatchcock is a chicken literally split down the middle, crushed by hand to be flattened and then cooked....
by Brian | Mar 3, 2017 | Dessert Digest, Recipes, Uncategorized
Trifles are considered a wonderful summer dessert. It is not summer. Who cares? Why not pretend we are oh so close to warm or even hot days. This recipe comes from Sprinkles, the wonderful book from the Sprinkles Cupcake stores. The book has those cupcakes...
by Brian | Mar 2, 2017 | Cookbook Review, Cookbook Reviews, Uncategorized
It is highly likely that you have eaten one of Elinor Klivans’ magnificent dessert ideas. Over the past 20 years, she has written nineteen cookbooks including the renowned Big Fat Cookies and Bake and Freeze Desserts. It’s has not all be cookies and...
